Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: July 21 2018

LinkedIn Joins OCP, Continues Open19 Deployment in Its Data Centers - OCP has lots of answers to LinkedIn’s questions about scaling its infrastructure to support exponential traffic growth.

Edge Computing: Clarity Over Confusion - If we can’t agree on even the most rudimentary terminology, we stand little chance of putting edge computing and all its promise into practice.

Google is Building a Second Intercontinental Cable of Its Own - The cable will boost bandwidth between Google’s rapidly growing data center cluster in Northern Virginia and its data center campus in St. Ghislain, Belgium

Data Center REITs in the First Half: Dare to Defy the Herd - While data center stock performance was weak in the first half of 2018, these companies offer plenty of opportunity for investors

Google’s Cloud Data Centers for Hollywood Come Online in Los Angeles - Marketing it primarily to the area’s media and entertainment industry, Google is promising much better latency if clients in California use the new us-west2 region instead of the previously closest region in The Dalles, Oregon, called us-west1.