Akamai Technologies (AKAM) and AT&T announced a strategic alliance to deliver a global suite of content delivery network (CDN) solutions to companies. Also, Level 3 (LVLT) to stream TED talks, and Octoshape collaborates with Juniper (JNPR).
The Weeh in Review: Inside Facebook's North Carolina data centers, a closer look at the Stampede supercomputer, modules beat the heat at 130 degrees, Twitter keeps growing.
The Stampede system spans nearly 200 cabinets at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas. The system was showcased this week at the Gartner Data Center Conference as an example of the future path for high performance computing (HPC).
AST Modular recently supplied a four-site modular installment to a major oil and gas company to provide IT support for its oil well operations in Iraq. The modules operate at temperatures of up to 130 degrees F (55 degrees C).
New players continue to emerge on the data center landscape. The latest is NextFort, which is building a data center in the Phoenix market offering high-security modular designs optimized for private clouds.
Just six months after launching a partnership to deploy new customers in data center modules from IO, Denver data center provider Fortrust says the strategy has succeeded beyond its expectations, and it has ordered additional IO.Anywhere modules.