DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Connectivity, 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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Windstream files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
The management is attempting to save the business with $1 billion from Citigroup
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Lenovo introduces subscription service for data center hardware
Customers can pay for their on-premises infrastructure on a monthly basis
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EdgeConneX acquires Vodafone data center in central Munich
Additional space for customers will be ready later this year
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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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UK’s Excel Networking has arrived in the US
Offering cabling, racks and power distribution
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UK invests $180m in pan-African fiber optic network
Liquid Telecom will spend the money on improved network connectivity across the continent
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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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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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Juniper Networks extends integration with Nutanix systems
Switches, firewalls and network management from Juniper + servers and virtualization from Nutanix
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H5 buys San Antonio’s only carrier hotel
To offer colocation space with access to more than 25 network carriers
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1025Connect and partners launch ‘Continental Edge’ service in Long Island
New York is closer to Europe than any other place in the US
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Cloudflare establishes Bandwidth Alliance to lower data transfer fees
Google, IBM, Microsoft among the cloud vendors on board
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Tungsten Fabric project joins LF Networking community
Open source SDN platform finds new friends as version 5.0.1 is released
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Open source communities unite around Cloud-native Network Functions
Virtual Network Functions + Kubernetes = CNFs
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Network outage grounds passengers at Gatwick Airport
An issue with a Vodafone cable wreaks havoc at one of the UK’s busiest airports
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Arista to pay Cisco $400m to settle patent lawsuit
The two have pledged to cease hostilities for five years
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R&M appoints Michiel Panders as general manager for Europe
Cabling specialist nabs an experienced Cisco executive
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GTT establishes new divisions in the UK and Europe
Appointing leaders from Hibernia Networks and Interoute
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Orange plans to acquire Basefarm to boost enterprise services
Assets include a major data center campus near Oslo
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Report: AWS could start selling its own network switches
Running open source software
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Nexion takes over former Datacom data center in Perth, Australia
Young networking company enters cloud and colocation market
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Integra launches free network failure cost estimator
How many trucks does it take to fix a network?
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5Nines opens Northern Ireland’s largest data center
In an Enterprise Zone built around a transatlantic cable landing point
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DataBank to double the size of data center in Pittsburgh, PA
With a brand new building
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China Telecom, Liquid Telecom to improve links between Africa and Asia
“Historic” partnership set to open access to new markets
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Missouri data center engineers indicted for embezzlement
The pair is accused of stealing almost $400,000 in scrap metal during renovation