DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Enterprise, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Japan's Air Water acquires UPS maker Hitec
Diesel rotary UPS creator gets a new parent
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109-year-old Montana hydroelectric powerhouse could become a data center
Historic building could be used for blockchain
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H5 Data Centers sues Grant County, WA over $116m data center assessment
The company is asking for a $450,000 refund on its 2018 property tax bill
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AWS signs $27m cloud deal with Australian government
The three year deal is aimed at making it easier for government agencies to purchase AWS services
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New York power plants could become hyperscale data centers in $650 million conversion
As the coal-burning plants cannot hit strict carbon dioxide targets
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Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $9.4 billion
In an effort to grow in the IoT market
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Digital Realty pays $2.14 million per-acre for Ashburn, Northern Virginia property
In what could be an industry first
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Marvell to acquire Avera Semiconductor for $650 million
The recently created Avera used to be IBM's microelectronics business
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Report: TierPoint seeks $500m investment for expansion
Also considers fully selling the company
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Autonomy's ex-CFO given five-year jail term for HPE sale fraud
As well as a $10 million fine
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BSO acquires IX Reach, becomes world's largest privately-owned telco operator
The company's third acquisition in 18 months
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CoreSite to expand Virginia campus by 50,000 square feet
As part of ongoing expansions aiming to bring the campus up to 1.3 million square feet
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Sungard AS completes bankruptcy restructuring in record time, appoints new CEO
The company's creditors will now take over the business
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Equinix completes $10.9 million Perth expansion
Following large scale expansions in Sydney and Melbourne
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QTS buys two facilities in the Netherlands for $44 million
And it's going to cost them another $15 million to recommission the data centers
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QuadReal and T5 Data Centers launch $2.5 billion platform
It's still going to be called T5 and its got some serious cash behind it
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Flexenclosure completes Managua, Nicaragua data center
As part of Millicom's $68 million Latin American investment
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Flipkart opens data center in Hyderabad, India
Built in partnership with colo company CtrlS
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QuadReal considers $1 billion investment in T5 Data Centers
The investment would be used to buy and build more data centers
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De Nederlandsche Bank to close data center, move to private cloud
As part of a four-year outsourcing contract with Centric
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Sungard Availability Services to file for bankruptcy, plans restructure
As it tries to deal with $1.3bn in debt
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$5 billion HPE fraud trial begins against Autonomy founder Mike Lynch
HPE has alleged that, without informing investors, Autonomy sold loss-making hardware contracts to pump up sales figures
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SK Hynix demos ZNS SSD at OCP
The Zoned Namedspaces SSD will allow information to be stored based on what type of data it is
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Indiana data center tax cut proposal moves forward
The tax cuts could help a local lake-cooled data center expand from a $40 million project to a $200 million one
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Report: Cologix seeks $500 million investment
The colocation provider has completed 11 acquisitions in the last decade and could be eyeing up further expansions
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ScaleMatrix acquires Instant Data Centers
Instant Data centers used to be Elliptical Mobile Solutions before it was bought and renamed in 2016
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US supercomputing spared from proposed Department of Energy budget cuts
But previous White House DOE budget proposals have been overruled
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Cumulus' Linux OS first to support Facebook's modular Minipack
The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware