Ahead in the Clouds

August 2014

• VMworld 2014: What happened on Day 1

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 25 Aug 2014

On Day 1 of its annual conference VMworld 2014 themed "No Limits", VMware unveiled its strategies around open cloud platform OpenStack and around container technology Kubernetes. It also launched ...

• Microsoft Azure goes down for users around multiple regions including Europe and Asia

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 20 Aug 2014

Users experiencing full service interruption and performance degradation across several services including StorSimple, storage services, website services, backup and recovery and virtual machine ...

• PUE - the benevolent culprit in the datacentre

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 18 Aug 2014

Enterprises must not be too hung up on PUE alone to measure their datacentre efficiency.

• What's making Oregon the datacentre capital

  Archana Venkatraman - Datacentre Editor 07 Aug 2014

Oregon is home to datacentres built by Facebook (Prineville datacentre), Google (Its first datacentre - The Dalles), Amazon (Boardman), Apple (also Prineville), and Fortune Datacentres (Hillsboro) ...