Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: October 2019

Digital Realty to Acquire European Data Center Giant Interxion for $8.4B - If closed, the deal will make Digital Europe’s second-largest data center provider.

Equinix CEO: Digital Realty’s Interxion Deal ‘Doesn’t Close the Gap’ - While that’s true on a global basis, the deal would be a game changer in Europe.

Why Amsterdam Halted Data Center Construction - Data center developers have been caught in crossfire as local politicians duke it out over a troubled waste treatment plant.

VMware on Oracle Cloud: What You Need to Know - Taking a closer look at the two vendors’ recent hybrid cloud partnership

Rendering of a three-data center campus Facebook is currently building in New Albany, Ohio

Analysts: There are Now More than 500 Hyperscale Data Centers in the World - It took two years to build more than 100 massive server farms, but the rate is accelerating.

Tons of Data Center Businesses on the Market. Not All Will Sell - Sector growth and maturity are fueling an M&A frenzy but often also unrealistic valuations.

GRC's cooling tanks at a CGG data center in Houston

Schneider and HPE Throw Their Weight Behind Data Center Liquid Cooling - Two major data center vendors enter separate partnerships around liquid cooling solutions.

HPE’s On-Prem Nutanix-as-a-Service Goes Live - Manage-yourself integrated HPE-Nutanix HCI, ServiceNow integration also announced at .NEXT

Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder, chairman, and CTO, speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco

Do Oracle Cloud’s “No-Oracle-Code” Servers Make It More Secure? - Taking a closer look at Larry Ellison’s claim of a superior, “fundamentally different” cloud architecture.

Facebook's 100G Minipack switch

OCP Switches Steadily Making Inroads into Enterprise Data Center Networks - IHS: More than half of all bare-metal data center switches sold in Q2 were OCP-certified