Data center developer Digital Realty Trust (DLR) said today that it signed leases representing more than $472 million in total cash contract value. The real estate investment trust commenced leases on 757,000 square feet of space, and signed...
Equinix (EQIX) today announced the opening of new data centers in Frankfurt and Dusseldorf, along with plans to expand its existing Frankfurt-2 (FR2) center. The company said the expansions are part of a wider strategy to increase data center...
Google has awarded a $1 million grant to researchers developing low-energy modes on servers, part of a larger funding of university research projects aimed at slashing energy use of Internet data centers, including "radical experiments" in data...
Twitter will use file distribution technology from BitTorrent to boost the performance of its back-end infrastructure, which has required constant attention to keep pace with the growth of the popular microblogging service.
On Monday Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) reported strong growth in customers in the government and cloud computing sectors, and growing demand for its colocation and managed hosting services. But its stock moved lower as analysts focused on a revision...
A Fortune 100 financial services company is the first customer for Digital Realty Trust's POD Architecture Services, the company's new service to design and build data centers for enterprise clients.
VMware (VMW) is going on the road to showcase its virtualization technology. And it's bringing all its equipment with it in a rolling mobile data center packed with gear from Cisco Systems, NetApp, Dell Xsigo and parent EMC Corp.
Shares of Internap Network Services (INAP) are higher this morning, apparently due to growing interest in the company's shares in investment funds.
When Google makes changes to its network, it gains attention. In recent days Google has reportedly cranked up usage of IPv6 for YouTube, and begun routing large volumes of traffic through a "mystery domain."