Nimsoft scored another big win in the cloud sector, as SoftLayer Technologies said it will standardize on Nimsoft and deploy its monitoring solution on more than 25,000 systems. Last month Rackspace Hosting (RAX) also standardized on Nimseoft.
INetU Managed Hosting has purchased a 46,000 square foot building in Pennyslvania's Lehigh Valley to house additional data center space and the company's new product development center, INetU Labs.
Oak Hill Capital Partners said today that it has completed its acquisition of managed hosting provider ViaWest, and that GI Partners has joined the ownership team with a minority stake.
Metro fiber provider Lightower Fiber Networks is acquiring Veroxity Technology Partners in a deal that will combine the networks of two Massachusetts connectivity providers.
Startup Green Platform Computing has developed server racks that can minimize the impact of noise-related vibration on storage performance. The anti-vibration enclosures are made of carbon fiber rather than metal.
In this video from the Uptime Symposium, Electrorack demonstrates a new rack design which allows two or even three racks of equipment to be housed in a single enclosure and controlled by a single rack-top chimney system.
This white paper from Alcatel-Lucent shows how data centers can reduce energy consumption by as much as 90% using modular cooling.
Google's Senior Network Architect Bikash Koley said that machine-to-machine traffic is rising at Google and as such the company reconsidering overall optical network choices. Plus more highlights from the Light Reading optical conference.