Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: February 26, 2021
Cyxtera in first SPAC deal in the data center space, a look inside hyperscale data center leasing, space storage startup gets funding, and more.
February 26, 2021
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Data Center Provider Cyxtera to Go Public Via $3.4B Starboard SPAC Deal - The SPAC merger opens up new sources of much needed investment capital for the colocation heavyweight.
How Cloud Giants (Hyperscalers) Go About Leasing Data Centers - Data Center Podcast: Stack Infrastructure’s Tim Hughes on the business of hyperscale computing facilities.
Investors Bet $40M On Startup LyteLoop’s Vision of Data Storage in Space - The company plans to launch a network of satellites that would store data by beaming light back and forth between the nodes.
Autopilot: Google Cloud’s Managed Kubernetes With More Management - The cloud provider’s new managed service for the container orchestration engine it created promises customer node management by its own SREs.
The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud - Whether to use Kubernetes as the basis is one of the biggest questions any journey to hybrid cloud begins with today.
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