The world of high-speed financial trading has entered a phase in which latency is measured in nanoseconds. That's the claim from Zeptonics, a new technology firm that says its new switching device can deliver latency of around 130 nanoseconds, the...
Happy IPv6 Launch Day, everyone! And what does that mean? Who better to explain this than Vint Cerf, a "founding father" of the Internet and now Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.
Los Angeles-based web hosting company DreamHost is expanding its operations to the East Coast, where it become an anchor tenant in RagingWire Data Centers’ new data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The expansion is part of a broader effort by...
Digital Realty (DLR) today announced the launch of its Turn-Key Flex solution, which lets customers select from a catalogue of components during the design and construction process to meet their data center specifications.
As with any investment in the data center, the question of the return on the investment should be raised before purchasing a DCIM solution. DCIM will not transform your data center or budgets overnight, but it will begin the process.
On Monday Netflix announced it has been building Open Connect, a single-purpose content delivery network (CDN), with 5 percent of Netflix data already being served from it. Is this good news or bad news for CDNs currently serving Netflix traffic?
Enthusiasm is building for World IPv6 Launch Day on Wednesday, when a consortium of major players in Internet infrastructure says parts of their infrastructure will begin supporting IPv6. What does this "launch" really mean? Here's our review of...
This Wednesday is IPv6 Launch Day, which marks the unofficial kickoff for the Internet transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Here are some Industry Perspectives columns on the topic that may prove helpful to companies and providers working on the IPv6...
Kathleen Mazzarella is the new President and CEO of Graybar, a major distributor of electrical and communications products for the data center industry. She succeeds Robert Reynolds, Jr. who now serves as Graybar’s executive chairman, overseeing...
A former Hynix semiconductor facility in Eugene, Oregon may be converted into a 900,000 square foot data center. It's the latest project seeking to retrofit semiconductor plants, which share a number of key attributes with data centers, and could...