Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: August 9, 2019

AMD Unleashes Its Second Epyc Assault on Intel’s Data Center Reign - Claims second-gen Epyc server chips are up to two times more powerful than top-of-the-line Xeon

Microsoft Slaps Tax on Taking Its On-Prem Licenses to AWS, GCP - The change, together with a new discount, greases the wheels for its new dedicated host service.

Mesosphere Becomes D2IQ, Moves Into Kubernetes, Big Data - The open source company expands beyond its traditional core and into highly competitive waters.

HPE Buys MapR and Its Unique File System for Analytics and Machine Learning - The software company built the file system as a more flexible alternative to Hadoop’s HDFS

The Evite Breach Demonstrates the Risk of Losing Track of Old Data - Old data may not be of much value to a business, but it can command top bitcoin on the dark web