Google has leased another 57,000 square feet of space at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the most wired carrier hotel properties in New York. That's in addition to the 270,000 square feet the company leased in 2005.
Cloud technologists are intrigued by the potential applications for commodity-style trading of compute capacity, and have begun discussing how such an exchange might work. Key ingredients: the right framework and a trusted market maker.
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Some users of Amazon EC2 are reporting that the cloud computing service is having problems scaling efficiently. Amazon says these are not capacity issues and pledges to help sort out any customer scaling challenges.
Microsoft and HP announce a $250 million pact, which is focused on a joint "roadmap" for integrating Microsoft software and HP hardware, with implications for the hardware choices for Microsoft's data centers.
Most hosting companies have been reluctant to physically locate data centers on the Chinese mainland due to concerns about the government's policies, opting instead to place their data centers in the region in Hong Kong or Singapore.