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Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: July 2020

IBM calls out cloud rivals on open source, Cloudflare doubles down on serverless cloud, AMD enables runtime encryption in Google Cloud, and more.

IBM Has Open Sourced Its Edge Device Platform and Wishes AWS and Microsoft Got On Board - IBM's Open Horizon is meant to make it easier to manage thousands of IoT devices as edge computing nodes.

Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch - Its CEO says the new serverless platform is cheaper and faster than Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s.

How a Small Town Outside Nashville Lured a Hyperscale Data Center - Gallatin officials expect the future facility, likely by Facebook, to have a transformative effect on the local economy.

AMDAMD's second-generation Epyc server processor, codenamed

AMD's second-generation Epyc server processor, codenamed "Rome"

Why Google Cloud Turned to AMD to Solve for Runtime Encryption - AMD’s latest server chips enabled better scalability, less lag, and more memory than Intel SGX, the cloud provider said.

What Next-Generation Hybrid Cloud Means for Colocation Data Centers - Unlike their previous-gen versions, new hybrid-cloud frameworks are easier to deploy and do away with the 'cloud-vs-colo' dichotomy.

Kubernetes Co-Creator: CNF for Telcos May Need a Different Orchestrator - VMware’s Craig MucLuckie says cloud-native telco infrastructure will benefit from Kubernetes principles, but will need a lot of customization.

VMwareVMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (left) on stage at VMworld 2019 with Joe Beda, a principal engineer at VMware and one of the three original creators of Kubernetes.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (left) on stage at VMworld 2019 with Joe Beda, a principal engineer at VMware and one of the three original creators of Kubernetes.

VMware Hands Control of Kubernetes Ingress Project Contour Over to CNCF - Joe Beda, one of its creators, said one reason for the move was reassuring non-VMware developers that Contour's development wouldn't be steered by a single company.

How Google Cloud Plans to Win Enterprises from AWS and Azure - GCP has been beefing up its enterprise strategy, and there are signs that the efforts are paying off.

What Containers and Kubernetes Mean for Colocation Data Centers - At first glance, it may seem that there's little impact, but containers make applications more portable, making infrastructure less "sticky."

Vantage live camVantage's V6 data center in Santa Clara, California

Vantage's V6 data center in Santa Clara, California

Colony Leads $1.2B Equity Investment in Vantage Data Centers - Its new CEO Marc Ganzi at the helm, the REIT opens a new chapter with a data center deal.

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