Tag: data centers

May 10, 2017

Devops and cloud—both concepts are hot, for good reason. Let’s take a look at the current state of devops and cloud, and how they fit into today’s technology sets. Devops provides an approach and a group of technologies that help […]

May 2, 2017

The volume of corporate software workloads being deployed in the cloud is quickly growing, but that does not mean on-premise enterprise data center footprint is shrinking at a similar rate. While they’re not investing in new data centers to expand […]

October 6, 2016

VMware has agreed to sell its government cloud business to QTS Realty Trust, one of the biggest data center service providers in the US. The deal comes about a month after VMware, now majority-owned by Dell, announced a major shift […]

April 25, 2016

  Six years ago over two days engineers from Rackspace and NASA met in Austin, Texas, for the very first OpenStack Summit. Six years later, OpenStack is returning to its roots. As it does so, OpenStack has cemented itself as […]

April 5, 2016

The first quarter was a very choppy environment for global equities, but it was clear sailing during Q1 2016 for publicly traded data center REITs. Now the question investors need to answer: Is this the right time to jump aboard […]

February 22, 2016

As the big cloud providers continue to expand their global reach through Equinix data centers – Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Cisco are now in its data centers across 17 markets around the world on average – the colocation provider […]

December 23, 2015

Every year starting around mid-November we get flooded with emails from vendors in the data center market (and outside of it) with their predictions for the following year. Some are interesting, some aren’t, and most are of course self-serving. We’ve […]