Citing strong demand for its data services for legal professionals, Thomson Reuters has leased data center space near Minneapolis from XO Communications, the companies said today.
Telecom Ramblings has a Q-and-A with CENX President Nan Chen that provides additional perspective on the growth of the Carrier Ethernet market, where CENX competes with Equinix and Telx.
An interesting milestone: there is less than a year remaining until the Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses, according to Hurricane Electric, which maintains a countdown clock on its IPv6 statistics page.
Savvis (SVVS) this week announced the opening of the NJ2X expansion to its financial services data center complex in Weehawken, N.J. The new data center allows Savvis to meet growing demand for its proximity hosting trading service.
Enterasys takes on Cisco and Brocade with "agnostic" data center switch, PARADE picks New York Internet for push into digital, Cancer Treatment Centers of America to host data with TEAM Technologies in Wisconsin.
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is considering new rules governing colocation services supporting high-frequency trading, which would reportedly include both exchange-operated colocation services and third-party vendors.
Akamai (AKAM) announced Thursday that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Velocitude, whose technology can detect the mobile platform and automatically configure web sites to appear properly on the device.
With World Cup Soccer action set to kickoff in two days, content delivery networks are expecting increased Internet traffic related to online viewing of the matches. Akamai (AKAM) says the World Cup may be a "watershed event" for web streaming...