Carnegie Mellon University has become the latest research institution to host a site as part of Open Cirrus, the global cloud testbed created by HP, Intel, and Yahoo to provide researchers with access to an open source cloud platform.
Colocation provider Equinix, Inc. (EQIX) will sell $500 million in debt, some of which it will use to complete its acquisition of Switch & Data, the company said late Monday.
Google (GOOG) was the first customer for Bloom Energy, and is using the startup's gas-powered fuel cells in its operations. But contrary to early media reports, it is not using any of the "Bloom Boxes" in its data centers at present.