New Malware Hides Inside Rogue Virtual Machines - Security experts identify a new worrisome threat vector, but not all of them agree it has legs.
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Talks About IBM and His Vision for the Future - Paul Cormier recently sat down for a talk with Data Center Knowledge about how the company's relationship with its new owner, IBM, is working out and to reflect on where the company is going.

A Huge Week for Arm – in the Data Center Too - Ampere is bringing to market a 128-core Arm server chip, and Bamboo is ready to launch a server based on its own “PANDA” Arm architecture.

Arm-powered Fugaku, in Kobe, Japan, is the the world's fastest supercomputer as of June 2020, according to Top500.org.
The World’s 10 Fastest Supercomputers – in Pictures - The latest, 55th, edition of Top500 marks the first time an Arm-powered supercomputer is at the top of the list.
VMware Cloud Director Vulnerability Allows Data Center Takeovers - The vulnerability has been fixed with an upgrade, but unpatched systems risk the deletion of databases and virtual machines, or even having an attacker gain admin privileges.

A ZutaCore-cooled server on display at OCP Global Summit 2019
Just Add Water: Augmenting Air-Cooled Data Centers with Liquid - Seeing hot chips in the pipeline, OCP hyperscalers want to standardize retrofitting air-cooled servers with plumbing.
Equinix to Buy 13 Bell Canada Data Centers for $750 Million - The colocation giant said the deal would add 500 net new customers, $105 million in annualized revenue.
HPE Unveils Ezmeral, Its Answer to Tanzu and OpenShift, but With Hardware - It’s a kind of instant hybrid cloud, a uniform, pay-as-you-go way to deploy Kubernetes anywhere.

The Etix campus in Offenbach, Germany, now part of the Vantage portfolio
US Data Center Operators Have Financing Advantages Over EU Counterparts - Using a financing method called "securitization," US-based data center operators have been able to raise more money to finance growth than their European counterparts, who primarily rely on traditional bank financing.