One quarter of outages are due to power failures, says research

US investors scramble to build and lease data centers

­VMWare joins latest round of funding for the Canadian SDN & NVF vendor

UK provider offers Docker as a free IaaS add-on

C-suite says IT has to step up to the plate and improve its game 

Cloud provider gives seven-year vote of confidence to UK colo house

Tectonic partnership makes light of running containers at scale

Data center colocation giant Equinix plans expansion in present site plus a new build

Increasing threats need a new level of response

Everything-as-a-Service and software defined networking also fuelling growth

IBM’s developerWorks Open is designed to deepen the roots of Open Source

Fifty quarters of consecutive growth while revenues outpace costs

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg home to more Tier IVs than any other country 

The Port of The Dalles could house yet another data center

Public cloud users remain stubborn in their loyalty to Amazon Web Services

The management of containers just got easier

Server farms shouldn’t be shaped by real estate, says Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO

HP deal hopes to eliminate CO2 emissions of 340,000 tons

Eaton Power Xpert 9395 UPS, busways and switchgear installed in Denver

The first phase can support 7.1 megawatts of critical load

Asset-tracking software should satisfy both IT and facilities people

Flash plus cloud equals a powerful option says Avere

Mirantis Unlocked Appliances promises easier cloud deployment 

New compact thermal management systems are designed for smaller data centers