The Paradox of Cloud and Colocation Solutions
By Michael Hollander, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of MOD Mission Critical According to Aberdeen Group and Ventana Research, one out of four enterprises surveyed expect their data to grow by more than 30 percent in the next year. In order to cope with the explosive...
Infomart Data Centers Awarded Stamp of Approval from Uptime Institute
This week, Infomart Data Centers announced that its Portland and Silicon Valley facilities were recognized with Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations (M&O) “Stamp of Approval” recertification award. This award was created to develop and institutionalize...
ZenFi Named Best Dark Fibre Infrastructure Provider – New York at this Summer’s 2016 Telecoms Awards
This summer, TMT News held its annual Telecoms Awards, which recognizes and celebrates innovation and technical excellence in telecommunications. ZenFi, New York’s carrier-neutral fronthaul fiber provider, was named the Best Dark Fibre Infrastructure Provider – New...
NJ Tech Council – Call for Presentations Summer 2016
Summer Research Projects - 2016 October 13, 2016 – Philadelphia - 130 North 18th Street October 20, 2016 - Paramus, NJ The NJ Tech Council is seeking presentations focusing on research being done by university and college researchers (students) or interns at companies...
GTT Reports Strong Second-Quarter Growth
This week, leading global cloud networking provider GTT Communications, Inc. (NYSE: GTT) released its second-quarter financial results, which demonstrated strong continued growth. Compared to this quarter last year, revenue increased by 35.6 percent, from $95.1...
HostingCon Europe 2016: A Leading Event for Europe’s IT Professionals
Registration is Now Open This fall, get ready to travel to the “Venice of the North” for HostingCon Europe 2016. Taking place October 11-12 at the Passenger Terminal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, HostingCon Europe is the premier conference and trade show for cloud,...
MEF Appoints New Board of Directors For 2016-2017 Fiscal Year
World-Class Team Focused On Accelerating Industry Transition To Third Network Services Enabled By LSO, SDN, NFV, CE 2.0 Boston, 4 August 2016 — MEF is pleased to announce the results of the 2016 – 2017 Board of Directors elections and subsequent appointments by the...
EdgeConneX® Portland Edge Data Center® Earns OIX-2 Certification
EdgeConneX® announced this week that its Portland Edge Data Center® (EDC) has been awarded Open-IX OIX-2 certification. OIX-2 certification confirms that Portland EDC’s infrastructure reduces complexities and enables the implementation of business-critical...
A Front Row Seat at Telecom Exchange’s CEO Roundtable, Featuring ZenFi President and CEO Ray LaChance
On June 21-22, the ZenFi team took a short trip from their Manhattan offices downtown to Cipriani Wall Street to participate in Telecom Exchange NYC 2016. While attending the event, ZenFi President and CEO, Ray LaChance, participated on the CEO Roundtable, “Fiber...
EdgeConneX® Portland Edge Data Center® Achieves OIX-2 Certification
Portland Facility is the First and Only OIX-Certified Data Center in the Pacific Northwest Herndon, VA - August 4, 2016 – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the Edge of the network, today announces that its Portland Edge Data Center® (EDC)...
Cisco & Amartus Co-Lead MEF OpenCS Packet WAN Use Case
Project Is Part Of MEF’s Open Initiative To Accelerate The Industry Transition To Agile, Assured & Orchestrated Third Network Services Los Angeles, 25 July 2016 - MEF is pleased to announce that Cisco and Amartus are co-leading work on the new OpenCS (Open...
Broadband Forum and ON.Lab Collaborate on CORD
Organizations to work together to advance next-generation broadband networks built on SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies July 28, 2016: The Broadband Forum today announced it has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Open Networking Laboratory (ON.Lab), with...
VIRTUS Data Centres Expands Global Footprint with Global Cloud Xchange
Originally posted to Data Center Post London – 25 July 2016 – VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, today announced a partnership with Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications, to expand its...
Compu Dynamics Releases White Paper
‘Essential Elements for Data Center Optimization’ Offers Methodologies to Minimize Risk and Capture the Full Value of a Data Center Deployment Sterling, Va., August 2, 2016 – Compu Dynamics, a provider of mission-critical electrical and mechanical services for data...
HostingCon Spotlight: Kirill Bensonoff, Founder of Unigma, Talks Cloud
Originally posted to CloudPost. Recently, Data Center POST spoke with Unigma’s Founder, Kirill Bensonoff about the problems Unigma is attempting to solve, key market trends pushing companies to the cloud and what Mr. Bensonoff accomplished at HostingCon, the largest...
HostingCon Spotlight: Host in Ireland’s Founder and President, Garry Connolly, Discusses the Organization’s “5 Ps” and Greatest Accomplishments
Originally posted to Data Center Post. Data Center POST had the opportunity to speak with Garry Connolly, Host in Ireland’s Founder and President, during HostingCon Global 2016, which took place between July 24-27 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New...
Movers & Shakers: 10 Innovators North of the Rack
Originally posted to Data Center Dynamics by Sebastian Moss Open source, cognitive solutions and big data analytics - here are ten software heavyweights behind the data center software revolution With software taking control of the upper layers of the data center, we...
Wilcon Receives SSAE 16/SOC 1 Type II Attestation and HIPAA Security Rule Compliance Report
LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2016 -- KirkpatrickPrice announced today that Wilcon, a fiber optic and data center infrastructure provider, has demonstrated through an independent review of their information security control structure, their compliance with the SSAE 16/SOC 1...
FiberLight Announces New Fiber Construction to Connect Texas Networks
On July 26, 2016, FiberLight announced that the company will continue to invest in its Texas-based network. Moving forward, FiberLight will provide low-latency transport to growing rural communities across Texas. The expansion will establish additional low-latency...
EdgeConneX® Joins Host in Ireland
EdgeConneX® is now a strategic partner of Host in Ireland, the global initiative for encouraging businesses to host digital assets on the Emerald Isle. Ireland is now a prime location for hosting data. Its data center industry provides enhanced connectivity, cost...