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VMware will buy Nicira, a leading player in software defined networking (SDN) for $1 billion in a bold move to boost its position in data center networking. Nicira’s software platform manages a network abstraction layer, which lets users create...
The fiber networks driving high-speed trading for major stock exchanges are about to get even faster. Sidera Networks says it will conduct a major upgrade of its low-latency fiber routes connecting major financial data centers in New York and New...
From diversity in the workforce, to business models of cloud, presenters at HostingCon 2012 covered a broad range of topics relevant to the hosting industry. Here's our roundup of noteworthy coverage of this week's conference held in Boston, via...
The second day of HostingCon 2012 featured the opening of the exhibit hall as well as more educational sessions. We've got three pages of photos of all the conference action!
IntelliBatt, which provides batteries, cabinets and monitoring technology for data center UPS systems, has secured a $22 million equity investment led by Columbia Capital. The company also announced that two veterans of Rackable Systems will share...
WAN optimization specialist Aryaka said today that it has secured a $25 million Series C funding round led by InterWest Partners, with participation from Presidio Ventures and existing investors.
For veterans of the web hosting industry, cloud computing isn't revolutionary. But the "cloudification" of IT infrastructure has changed the competitive landscape for hosting, and has likely boosted business for many hosting service providers...
About 1,900 hosting professionals came together at HostingCon 2012, which got underway Monday in Boston. Check out our photo feature, Scenes From HostingCon 2012, for highlights of Day 1 of the conference.
There's a new metric in web hosting acquisitions: whether a seller has a supply of unused IPv4 addresses. Investment bankers working on hosting deals say the scarcity of IPv4 addresses is becoming a factor in some transactions.
Facebook is updating its data center cooling system, swapping media in place of misters. The changes to the social network’s multi-room “penthouse” cooling were based on lessons learned during the first year of operating its data center in...