The Week in Revew: Nemertes sees coming shortage of enterprise colo space, hosting firms join SOPA protest, a data center that looks like a mansion, Amazon releases cloud database, outage at Equinix impacts Zoho's apps.
Enterprise colocation demand will outstrip colocation service provider supply starting this year, Nemertes projects, unless colocation providers expand at a faster rate than current growth rates would indicate.
Real estate investor Menlo Equities has purchased a data center in Irvine, California as part of a larger deal to acquire the Irvine Crossings project.
Here's a look at the Industry Perspectives' columns from this week. Storage and monitoring are the topics in columns from Marc Crespi of ExaGrid and James Sivis of Circonus.
The Week in Review: $12 billion in data center mergers in 2011, Amazon connects its cloud with more data centers, strong future seen for mobile cloud computing, Peak 10 provides cloud-bursting for Tim Tebow.
The creators of Data Center Pulse say the group will "go back to the basics," simplifying its focus on content for members and industry collaborations.
What are the primary factors you consider when you choose where to build a data center? In a new video, Cisco IT Architect Douglas Alger discusses the 10 factors that Cisco considers in its site selection process.
2012 is going to be a very exciting year for data centers and data center operations. Data centers are undergoing tectonic shifts. We'll be examining these shifts and major trends affecting enterpise data center operations, architecture, planning...
Mergers and acquisition activity in the data center sector generated more than $12.3 billion in deal values globally in 2011, according to an analysis by the UK consulting firm BroadGroup.