DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, 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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Lenovo introduces subscription service for data center hardware
Customers can pay for their on-premises infrastructure on a monthly basis
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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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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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Juniper Networks extends integration with Nutanix systems
Switches, firewalls and network management from Juniper + servers and virtualization from Nutanix
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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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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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Missouri data center engineers indicted for embezzlement
The pair is accused of stealing almost $400,000 in scrap metal during renovation
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OCP Summit: Open Network Linux is ready for mass adoption
Open source project brings together Facebook, Google and Big Switch Networks
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SolarWinds releases free network diagnostic tool
Traceroute NG reimagines network path analysis for the hybrid cloud era
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D-Link adds SDN to its data center switches
Bringing ‘bright-box’ switching to the masses
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GTT is buying Interoute for $2.3 billion
Expanding its European presence with 15 data centers, more than 44,000 miles of fiber
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Megaport brings private cloud connectivity to the masses
Megaport Cloud Router enables private networking without the need for physical infrastructure
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The Linux Foundation launches networking organization
LF Networking will take charge of six major open source projects
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Leviton retires the Brand-Rex brand
Two cabling companies complete the merger that started in 2015
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EdgeConneX announces its first data center in South America
Starts with a 10MW facility in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile to follow soon
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Nokia chosen to upgrade Telenor’s network in Norway, Sweden
Enabling SDN and preparing for 5G
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Microsoft Azure launches ‘Accelerated Networking’
Lower latency and CPU utilization for virtual machines, thanks to FPGA-based network interface cards
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Juniper transfers OpenContrail project to the Linux Foundation
Bright future ahead for open source SDN platform