A staff member works among the racks and network switches in the data center of LightEdge Solutions in Altoona, Iowa. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A staff member works among the racks and network switches in the data center of LightEdge Solutions in Altoona, Iowa.

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: June 5, 2020

Here are the biggest things we wrote about this week.

Resilience in a Pandemic: Smaller Data Center Providers Hang On, Hold Fast - America's local and regional data centers have been operating on full alert. And it’s been three months for them, not two.

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.

New Malware Hides Inside Rogue Virtual Machines - Security experts identify a new worrisome threat vector, but not all of them agree it has legs.

Mirantis Unveils First Homegrown Version of Docker Enterprise Container Platform - Although Mirantis had originally planned to sunset the orchestration engine Swarm, long time Docker users have convinced the cloud company to continue development and offer it as a choice alongside Kubernetes.

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.

 

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