Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage, launching a new AWS AsiaPac region in Sydney, Australia. This region launches with two availability zones so customers may use it for high availability...
Managed hosting provider Latisys announced two data center expansions, one in Chicago and one in northern Virginia. The company is adding 10,000 square feet in Oak Brook, Ill. and 22,000 square feet in Ashburn, Virginia.
With the latest incarnation of its modular design, UK-based IT provider Colt is promising to future proof the data center by using modular components to enable customers to scale up or down in their use of power...
The DCIM wars are heating up. Data Center Infrastructure Management player Nlyte has launched a program that targets users of Emerson Aperture DCIM customers migrate (or “trade up” in the company’s parlance) to Nlyte.
ColoAtl is creating a “NAP” in Atlanta with involvement of Georgia Tech and the National Science Foundation. Dubbed the Southeast Network Access Point (SNAP), the exchange point offers neutral internet exchange...
A new player on the data center development scene is 1547 Realty Partners, which has a new property just outside of New York City, in Orangeburg, N.Y. For its inaugural project, 1547 is partnering with Deerns America.
Expanding their strategic relationship, two major cloud companies, Rightscale and Rackspace, announced that RightScale's cloud management is now integrated with the Rackspace Open Cloud (powered by OpenStack) and...
The Windows Azure public cloud is coming to China. Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the municipality of Shanghai, and signed agreement to license Microsoft technologies to 21Vianet, who...
Telehouse will open its first data center in Russia at DataSpace (above) which converted an aging Moscow tire factory into a Tier III Data Center. (Photos: Uptime Institute)...
Monitoring from Keynote, Renesys and RIPE provided a high-level analysis of how the Internet managed the storm, allowing us to paint a broader picture than the facility outages we’re tracking in our data center coverage.