Tag: data center

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Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in broadcast media technologies, today announces with great regret that it has withdrawn its booth participation from NAB Show 2021.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 […]

January 12, 2021

Colt Technology Services, working in tandem with AudioCodes, announced on Tuesday the launch of its cloud session border controller (SBC) solution to enable PSTN calling on Microsoft Teams. The cloud-based voice solution provides direct routing as-a-service without the need for […]

December 14, 2020

As we edge our way into the 5G era, the entire industry is trying to find ways to better scale and automate virtually every component. One company that has taken a big swing at its own piece of the puzzle […]

December 14, 2020

Regardless of industry, environmental sustainability has become an undeniable business imperative and power hungry data centers are becoming the role models. Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on […]

October 2, 2020

Equinix announced yesterday the closing of a major expansion north of the border. In a deal I managed to miss entirely when it was announced back in June, Equinix has acquired 13 data centers from BCE Inc., the parent company […]

September 11, 2020

Google is, once again, beefing up its presence in Hamina, Finland after garnering approval for its sixth data center at the complex. According to a story by YLE, Google expects the newest data center in Hamina will be up and […]

September 9, 2020

In order to branch out its services across the Middle Ease and Africa, OmniClouds has picked Versa Networks’ SD-WAN solution. OmniClouds, which is headquartered in Singapore, added Versa’s secure SD-WAN offering to its software-defined networking (SDN) network. OmniClouds’ platform connects […]

August 14, 2020

CoreSite has a new dark fiber provider out in the Bay Area. BandwidthIG has expanded its infrastructure into the company’s Santa Clara data center campus. BandwidthIG’s metro dark fiber infrastructure in the area stretches from Mountain View through Santa Clara, […]

August 6, 2020

Data center and colocation giant Equinix announced on Thursday that it has achieved Google Cloud Premier Partner status, which enables both companies’ customers to more easily move and connect their workloads in to Google Cloud. The expanded partnership pairs Equinix […]

July 28, 2020

Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar doesn’t appear to be losing any sleep over Nokia’s recent decision to compete against Juniper, Cisco, and Arista, among others, in the data center switching sector RELATED: Make way Cisco, Arista and Juniper: Nokia enters […]

June 24, 2020

Vapor IO and Digital Realty have launched their integrated platform that reaches from the network core to the edge in three cities. After announcing a partnership in October, the combination of Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL and Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge platform […]

February 25, 2020

Columbus, Ohio-based Horizon announced a new connection to Equinix’s Chicago data center, which is a major on-ramp for the Midwest. Horizon has connected its network backbone to the Equinix data center located on Cermak Road in Chicago in order to […]

December 12, 2019

Telia Carrier has upgraded its network capacity in its Phoenix Metro data center, and expanded its partnership with phoenixNAP. With the upgrade, phoenixNAP can provide its customers scalable, multi-terabit capacity and connectivity. That additional capacity will be used for services […]

November 18, 2019

Cumulus Networks announced on Monday that it has released Cumulus Linux 4.0, which is its network operating system (OS), and version 2.4 of its NetQ network operations toolset. Cumulus Networks’ Partho Mishra, president and chief product officer, said Cumulus Linux […]

October 24, 2019

Open Compute Project (OCP) certified switches were perched on top of the bare-metal data center throne in the second quarter, according to a report. According to a report by IHS Markit, vendors’ OCP-certified switches sold in the data center market […]

September 27, 2019

Sprint is putting the finishing touches on a custom network for KM2 Solutions, which is a nearshore outsourcing company based in the U.S. Using Sprint’s wireline network, the network for KM2 Solutions will provide connectivity from customer centers in Latin […]