CenturyLink has sold its data center and co-location business, as announced in their press-release CenturyLink reaches an agreement to sell data centers and co-location business to a consortium led by…
Equinix buys Verizon data centers
Equinix has completed a transaction to buy 29 Verizon data centers announced in December 2016. The $3.6bn transaction brings the datacenters, 250 staff and 1000 customers to Equinix's portfolio. These…
PacketPushers: Brocade Launches Entry-Level Fibre Channel Switch
Despite Broadcom's pending acquisition of Brocade , development of new products is still occurring. PacketPushers caught a press-release that Brocade have a new entry level fibre channel switch. The G610…
SDxCentral: VMware offloads vCloud Air to Europe’s OVH
SDxCentral are reporting that VMware have announced that OVH are buying the vCloud Air business. This in part makes sense, as although VMware want to be able to provide hybrid…
SDxCentral: Extreme Buys the Brocade Data Center Networking Assets for $55M
SDxCentral is reporting another disposal of Brocade assets following its proposed purchase by Broadcom. Extreme Networks are buying the Brocade data centre elements, 60 days after the Broadcom deal closes. The…
Amazon carry lots of Snowballs in their SnowMobile
Amazon have a service called AWS Snowball, but if you're importing a large dataset into the cloud, 80TB might simply not be enough. So now you can upgrade your transfers…
Broadcom to buy Brocade for $5.9bn
In an interesting spin in the future of Brocade , it is being brought by Broadcom for $5.9bn. Broadcom will divest itself of the IP networking business that Brocade has.…
RESTful Server Management with some Redfish
Managing servers is hard enough. Doing it with a rack of servers is more difficult. Maintaining a data centre full of servers can provide a significant challenge. There are lots…