DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Max Smolaks, Uptime Institute
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AWS buys 56 acres of land in Gilroy, Northern California
Is it a data center or a tree nursery?
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Facebook is spending $800 million on a data center in Tennessee
The long-rumored hyperscale project in Gallatin is Facebook’s 17th server farm
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Alibaba Cloud is adding a million servers in China
Thanks to three “super data centers” in important economic hubs
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Research: More than $2.56 billion worth of Open Compute products were sold in 2018
And that excludes revenue by board members like Facebook, Microsoft and Rackspace
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OVH is bringing its OpenStack-based public cloud to Asia Pacific
Open source infrastructure services will be delivered from Singapore and Sydney
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Stream Data Centers is planning a 50MW campus in Arizona
Yet another hyperscale project in Goodyear
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White House appoints Roger Stone as director of IT
Not that Roger Stone
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Echelon starts building 84MW campus in Clondalkin, Ireland
40MW of power capacity expected next year
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Morocco’s inwi opens its fourth data center
A 1,000 square meter facility in Rabat
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Linux Foundation launches edge computing organization
To create “a software stack that brings the best of telecom, cloud, and enterprise”
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Chayora announces partnership with Beijing Sinnet
Chinese infrastructure provider to offer services from Tianjin campus
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IBM Services to help Juniper with cloud management in a $325m deal
The agreement includes the use of Watson cognitive computing platform
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Compass Datacenters is building a hyperscale campus in Goodyear, Arizona
Up to 180MW of power for an up-and-coming market
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EdgeCore buys land for 80MW data center campus in Santa Clara
First data halls expected to open in 2020
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CCG has merged with Morrison Hershfield
North American mission critical engineering firms combine their forces
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Synergy: Number of hyperscale data centers reached 430 in 2018
And there are a further 132 facilities in the development pipeline
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UK’s Excel Networking has arrived in the US
Offering cabling, racks and power distribution
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Toshiba announces 16TB hard drive, 96-layer NAND SSDs
The MG08 is filled with helium, can serve as a drop-in replacement for existing HDDs
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Element Critical acquires two data centers in Chicago
Entering its third market after California and Northern Virginia
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Vantage Data Centers buys land in Goodyear, Arizona
To build a 160MW campus
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Gallery: Shenzhen’s upcoming data center will feature gardens, giant projections
The facility was designed for the Qianhai district, reclaimed from the sea just a few years ago
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Max Smolaks: Data center year in review
2019 has a lot to make up for
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Packet introduces edge microservers in Open19 racks
The new hardware will be deployed across all of Packet’s cloud and edge facilities
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Research: Data center users don’t value energy efficiency
According to Supermicro, businesses prioritize security, performance and connectivity instead
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DataBank acquires LightBound, adding two data centers in Indiana
9.5MW of power capacity in the booming Midwestern market
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DCD Awards 2018: Winners announced
Congratulations to the best and the brightest
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Corporate Office Properties Trust is building two data centers in Northern Virginia
Unspecified facilities for unnamed customers
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Seagate uses tiny lasers to create world’s first 16TB hard drive
After more than a decade in development, HAMR technology is finally getting ready for the mass market