Roundup: Teraco Data Environments opens second South Africa data center in Johannesburg, Digital Realty Trust (DLR) teams with Macquarie to compete for large Australian consolidation contract, Isilon Systems (ISLN) gear selected for Olympic media...
Some users of Amazon EC2 are reporting that the cloud computing service is having problems scaling efficiently. Amazon says these are not capacity issues and pledges to help sort out any customer scaling challenges.
Microsoft and HP announce a $250 million pact, which is focused on a joint "roadmap" for integrating Microsoft software and HP hardware, with implications for the hardware choices for Microsoft's data centers.
Most hosting companies have been reluctant to physically locate data centers on the Chinese mainland due to concerns about the government's policies, opting instead to place their data centers in the region in Hong Kong or Singapore.
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) said this morning that Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) has leased 10,000 square feet of space in one of its Dallas area facilities. The deal is the latest sign of the appeal of Digital's "plug-n-play" wholesale data center...
Microsoft has announced pricing for its hosted Windows Azure cloud computing application platform, and is urging Azure Community Technology Preview (CTP) users to upgrade to the commercial versions by Feb. 1.
Roundup: VMware (VMW) acquires Zimbra from Yahoo, Autotrader.com gets boost from Akamai (AKAM), Peak 10 to host Volunteers of America, Raritan digital KVM switch adds embedded encryption.