DCK contributor Bill Kleyman looks at all the non-Hollywood-friendly but real ways the Internet could be taken down.

IO's current data center project in Slough, England, will be its last company-built data center. The company will focus on partnerships with service providers for future expansion into new markets.

Web-scale converged infrastructure provider Nutanix announced that it has closed on a $140 million Series E financing round, bringing its total to date to $312 million.

VMware began its 2014 VMworld conference last Sunday with a day dedicated to partners, placing HP and VCE in the spotlight with expanded partnerships to speed the adoption of the software defined data center and hybrid clouds.

The Canadian provider continues its rollup play, making its third acquisition in 18 months. Adveniat operates in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a location with favorable tax laws.

In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices.

Cloud Security Automation company HyTrust has partnered with Intel to help secure applications and data in virtualized data centers, with a new feature called HyTrust Boundary Controls.

Poor server utilization and misaligned incentives within the multi-tenant data center market are identified as root problems with data center energy efficiency.

At its annual VMworld event in San Francisco Monday VMware launched the EVO family of hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, beginning with EVO:RAIL - an appliance for streamlining the deployment a software-defined data center.

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