Tag: data center

January 12, 2023

American Tower Corporation controls around 223,000 communications sites around the world, and has enjoyed steady growth as operators deploy and scale 5G infrastructure. Speaking earlier this month at the Citi 2023 Communications, Media and Entertainment Conference, President and CEO Tom […]

December 28, 2022

Okay, about those predictions I made last year… Each December I like to make a few predictions about the year ahead. But what is a prediction without a healthy dose of reality to cut it down to size? We don’t […]

December 23, 2022

This report provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global data center accelerator market. The global data center accelerator market is expected to grow from $11.00 billion in 2021 to $14.36 billion […]

December 13, 2022

Microsoft has acquired U.K.-based Lumenisity, a start-up that makes hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions, primarily for data centers and internet service providers (ISPs). Microsoft has said that the acquisition of Lumenisity’s technology will better help it support a variety of […]

November 29, 2022

It’s the week after Thanksgiving in the U.S., which means we now head to Las Vegas for the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent show. This event is the company’s largest conference and is typically filled with news of product […]

October 31, 2022

Some regional FTTH, a private equity investment, and a technology deployment: Archtop’s plans for fiber in the Hudson River valley are taking shape. The recently formed company has announced a strategic partnership with the town of Saugerties. They plan to […]

September 14, 2022

Two new data centers in the southwestern US, and two expansions in eastern Europe. Novva Data Centers says it has been building out a major new facility in the Las Vegas metro area. The plans call for a 275,000 square […]

August 16, 2022

Some ESG progress, a new edge data center, a new partnership in southeast Asia, and a new name in US fiber emerges: euNetworks has been working on its sustainability efforts. Having committed to being carbon net zero by 2040 they […]

August 1, 2022

Stream Data Centers, the industry leader in delivering exceptional data center experiences to global enterprise companies, is proud to announce that it has been selected as a trusted data center partner by T-Systems. T-Systems, a leading provider of Information and […]

July 27, 2022

We’ve all read the stories; the mainframe is doomed. FedEx has announced its sunset of the final 20% of its mainframes by 2024, and surely other companies will follow suit. The data center is doomed too. “Cloud-first” means that every […]

June 20, 2022

As prices drop and SSD adoption grows, companies are beginning to show increasing interest in Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technology. However, the NVMe topic is surrounded by multiple misconceptions. Companies usually associate technological novelties with a restricted level of applicability, […]

February 9, 2022

Several data center and interconnection items plus some enterprise security: Great Plains Communications has launched a new security offering aimed at the enterprise marketplace. They are teaming with Alarm.com to offer cloud-based physical security and video monitoring to enterprises in […]

January 31, 2022

A few years ago, we took a look at Bluebird Network via an Industry Spotlight with CEO Michael Morey where we focused on the company’s Underground Data Center in Springfield, Missouri. A lot has happened since then, both for Bluebird […]

January 14, 2022

Two network upgrades, some SD-WAN, a new subsea cable project, and a data center campus: Ciena won two global network upgrade projects this weeks that are worth noting. GBI is using the company’s technology to increase the design capacity of […]

October 28, 2021

Four expansion projects in four very different geographies and infrastructure sectors: Equinix is building a major new data center in the UK city of Manchester. The first phase of the data center giant’s fifth facility in Manchester will provide 3,600 […]

September 13, 2021

Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in broadcast media technologies, today announces with great regret that it has withdrawn its booth participation from NAB Show 2021. This difficult decision has been taken in light of the ongoing travel embargo to […]

July 26, 2021

Lumen Technologies struck a deal to sell its Latin America business to infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak for $2.7 billion in a move to free up more cash for its growth ambitions. The operator noted in a press release the sale […]

June 21, 2021

If I point to a car and say “boat,” does the vehicle change magically to conform to the name? We all know how silly that sounds, but many sources seem to think that saying “cloud-native” is all that’s necessary to […]

March 19, 2021

Synergy Research Group finds that enterprises are continuing to spend heavily on cloud infrastructure. This spending grew by 35% in 2020 to reach almost $130 billion. Meanwhile enterprise spending on data center hardware and software dropped by 6% to under […]

February 26, 2021

The cloud as the data center’s demise is a hypothetical assertion that technology and telecom are no stranger to. It’s an attention-grabbing claim that seems to underscore the massive migration to the cloud that has characterized much of the digital […]