It’s been another busy week, which we’ll wrap up with some links that caught our attention:
- Google Blogoscoped reports that Google (GOOG) may be close to launching Google Sites [1], a joining of Google Page Creator with wiki technology it acquired in the JotSpot deal. Sites is expected to provide Google Apps with a more robust site-building capability.
- NYSE Euronext will pay $200 million in cash to acquire Wombat Financial Software [2], a leader in low-latency trading. The deal “moves NYSE Euronext more deeply into the market data business and could allow it to marry low-latency market data with its transaction services business,” according to Wall Street & Technology.
- Equinix also boosted its low latency trading business by adding Equinix Financial eXchange communities [3] in London and Paris. Participants benefit from direct cross-connects to financial hub resources including traditional exchanges, market data vendors, trading platforms and clearing and settlement providers (link via Paolo Gorgo [4]).
- Browser pioneer Marc Andreessen says we can expect more server-less startups [5]. “More and more start-ups are basically launching with the assumption that they are going to be purely virtual,” he said. “They have a bunch of laptops to be able to get on the web, and that is all they are doing.”
- On Tuesday Hosted Solutions held an open house for its newly-expanded data center [6] in Raleigh, which made a favorable impression on local press.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] launching Google Sites: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-18-n40.html
[2] acquire Wombat Financial Software: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/blog/archives/2008/01/whats_behind_ny.html;jsessionid=GTMZS1KBT1YFKQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN
[3] Equinix Financial eXchange communities: http://www.eu.equinix.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=247&cntnt01returnid=583
[4] Paolo Gorgo: http://paologorgo.multiply.com/
[5] more server-less startups: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2207553/andreesen-head-cloud
[6] newly-expanded data center: http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/2324554/
[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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