Oracle (ORCL) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Acme Packet (APKT), a global provider of session border control technology, for approximately $1.7 billion. Plus acquisition news from IBM, Twitter and The 451 Group.
The ground hog has seen his shadow! That means that we continue providing the latest data center news, whatever the weather. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.
Open Compute Project's open source hardware news gained a large share our reader's attention in January, with three stories related to OCP hitting the month's top 10 list.
The Week in Review: Google's first $1 billion quarter for data center investment, a closer look at silicon photonics, Rackspace plans major UK expansion, Hyve brings Facebook;s servers to your racks.
We saw several different approaches to server chassis design at last week's Open Compute Summit. An example can be seen in Dell's third generation Open Compute gear, the C8000 chassis. In this video, Dell's Rafael Zamora provides an overview of...
Shares of server vendor Super Micro Computer (SMCI) soared nearly 19 percent Wednesday in trading on the NASDAQ stock market after the company reported earnings that exceeded the expectations of the analyst community.
A video interview with the Emerson Network Power team gives a closer look at a 45KW rack solution that integrates power distribution and back-up into the Open Rack specification, created with off-the-shelf components.
With growing demand for Flash memory from hyperscale and cloud companies, Fusion-io last week unveiled ioScale. Fusion-io's Gary Orenstein describes the Fusion ioScale product in this video with Data Center Knowledge editor Rich Miller at the Open...
Last week's Open Compute Summit produced a steady stream of news from companies including Rackspace, Facebook, Intel, AMD, Calxeda, Hyve Solutions, Emerson Network Power and many others. Here's a roundup.
