Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: Mar 23, 2018

Facebook Rethinks In-Region Data Center Interconnection - “East-west” traffic volume outstrips capabilities of the most powerful switches on the market.

Investor IPI Buys Remaining Three Infomart Data Centers - Deal follows recent agreement to sell Infomart Dallas to Equinix

Infomart Portland – Hillsboro, OR

Startups Bring Beer Brewing, Armor Making Tech to the Data Center - These two startups are applying in the data center technologies that were invented for something else entirely.

Advanced Cryo Solutions table at Data Center World 2018 in San Antonio, Texas

With Much of the Data Center Stack Open Source, Security is a Special Challenge - Without a vendor behind it, open source software takes a deliberate effort by IT to secure it.

Microsoft Pitches New Standard for Data Center Flash Storage - Says current architecture not the best fit for cloud infrastructure

Kushagra Vaid, general manager and distinguished engineer, Azure Infrastructure, Microsoft, speaking at the OCP Summit 2018 in San Jose, California.