RagingWire Bets on Cloud, Big Data with New Focus on Wholesale
Much of the future IT infrastructure will be split between massive wholesale data centers and public cloud services, a big part of the latter sitting in those wholesale data centers. Source: Web Hosting Review
Azerbaijan's Internet Goes Dark after Data Center Fire
Most network connections in Azerbaijan went dark for several hours Monday, following what the country’s communications officials attributed to a fire in the data center of the country’s main service provider Delta Telecom. Source: Web Hosting Review
Amazon Plans Virginia Data Center to Serve Federal Clients
Amazon subsidiary Vadata has successfully negotiated a $2.7 million tax-break deal with local officials for a data center the company plans to build at the Warrenton Training Center in Virginia, a classified US federal government communications complex that serves the likes of CIA, NSA, and the Department of Defense. Source: Web Hosting Review
Europe Greenlights Equinix-Telecity Merger, With Caveats
European antitrust regulators have approved the planned acquisition of TelecityGroup by Equinix, making the Redwood City, California-based data center provider the largest player in the European market. Source: Web Hosting Review
When is the Best Time to Retire a Server?
There’s no magic number for the length of the hardware refresh cycle that works for everyone, but the set of variables that together determine the ideal time to replace a server is fairly uniform across the board. Identifying those variables and analyzing their relationship is a question Amir Michael and his team at Coolan, a […]