Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: May 2020

Azure Edge Zones: Microsoft’s Plan to Dominate Edge Computing and 5G - Yousef Khalidi, corporate VP for Azure Networking, says the strategy is to build a “global computing infrastructure substrate.”

Fork Available as Red Hat Ends Life of CoreOS Container Linux - A German company pitches a "friendly fork" as a drop-in replacement for the cloud native operating system whose end of life came in May.

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Essential Workers: Keeping Data Centers Running During the Pandemic - This is what life inside data centers during the COVID-19 pandemic looks like. (Gallery)

Three Data Center REITs Report Solid Q1, Minimal Pandemic Impact - CoreSite, CyrusOne, and QTS had a successful leasing quarter, but the lockdowns didn’t start until late in the period.

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How the Data Center Technology Market Is Faring in the Pandemic - As workloads shift to the cloud faster, spending on data center gear shifts too.

Microsoft Azure Adds Another VMware Option to the Multi-Cloud Mix - It’s a way to extend your VMware environment into Azure. Wait, didn’t we already have that?

Microsoft's custom cloud servers, open sourced through the Open Compute Project, as seen at the OCP Summit 2017

Hyperscalers’ Used Gear Gets a Second Life in Smaller Data Centers - A budding new market is expected to grow quickly thanks to hyperscalers’ open approach to design.

Hackers Exploiting SaltStack Vulnerability Hit Data Centers - Attacks via the popular server management software came swiftly after a researcher discovered the weakness.

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How Cumulus Fits into Nvidia’s Data Center Play - Analysts foresee innovation in network automation, bundled ‘turnkey’ solutions.

The Etix campus in Offenbach, Germany, now part of the Vantage portfolio

And Then There Was One: How Vantage Outpaced NGD - The two companies had a similar start, but one skyrocketed, while the other plateaued. Silicon Valley trumped London in a next-generation takeover.