• 400G Network Deployed Using Cyan Blue Planet SDN

    May 16th, 2013 : John Rath

    Cyan announces that GlobalConnect will deploy 400G network across Denmark using its Blue Planet software-defined networking solution. Also, news from Juniper, Yahoo Japan, EdgeCast and TeliaSonera. Read More

  • Yahoo Building a Bigger Computing Coop

    March 25th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    Yahoo's ultra-efficient "chicken coop" data center in upstate New York is getting bigger. The Internet company has announced plans to invest an additional $168 million in the campus for its hydro-powered, wind-cooled server farm. Read More

  • MasterCard Takes Stake in Data Analytics Firm

    February 19th, 2013 : John Rath

    As big data continues to be collected more commercial businesses are seeing the high value of analyzing that data, and are choosing partners who specialize in large data set analytics to assist with extracting business insight from petabytes of data. An example: MasterCard has acquired an equity stake in Mu Sigma. Read More

  • Yahoo Buying Land Near Buffalo Data Center

    October 9th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Is the server-filled "chicken coop" ready to expand? Yahoo will purchase an additional 14 acres of land in an industrial park next to its existing data center in Lockport, New York, according to local media. Read More

  • Mayer is New Yahoo CEO, Shakeup at VMware

    July 17th, 2012 : John Rath

    Yahoo appoints high-profile Google exec Marissa Mayer as its new CEO, reports abound of a shakeup at VMware in which CEO Paul Maritz may shift to responsibilities at EMC, Cisco acquires Virtuata. Read More

  • Roundup: Interxion, Ciena, SGI, Yahoo

    January 18th, 2012 : John Rath

    Interxion (INXN) selected by Infront, Ciena (CIEN) upgrades network at Kennedy Space Center, SGI selected by Sikorsky Innovations, Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo. Read More

  • The Yahoo Factor

    November 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    The influence of the data center team assembled by Yahoo has spread across the industry, as seen in a photo from the 2006 groundbreaking for the Yahoo data center in Quincy, Washington. Read More

  • Will Changes at Yahoo Impact Hosting Operations?

    September 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Carol Bartz is out as the CEO at Yahoo. Does that mean anything for the company's data center and hosting operations? In recent years Yahoo has been overhauling its infrastructure to run its IT infrastructure more efficiently, saving the company many millions of dollars in the process. Read More

  • Microsoft Renews Big Lease, Yahoo Doesn’t

    August 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Analysts have been assessing the plans of large wholesale data center customers who have historically leased space but are now building their own data centers. Will they exit leases when their current term expires? Not necessarily. Microsoft recently indicated that it will renew a major wholesale lease, while Yahoo will allow a large lease to expire. Read More

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