Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: August 24, 2019

How Storj Is Building a Storage Cloud Without Owning a Single Disk - Led by Docker’s former CEO, the startup is crowdsourcing empty disk space from desktops and data centers around the world.

Cisco Eyes Replacing Data Centers with Cloud, Cautiously - CIO Jacqueline Guichelaar wants to reduce Cisco’s energy consumption and operating costs.

How the New Azure Ultra Disk Storage Delivers On-Prem Latency in the Cloud - Designed for mission-critical applications like SAP Hana, it may suck more workloads out of enterprise data centers and into Azure.

Marvell, Nvidia, Arista Deals Repaint the Data Center Networking Landscape - Merchant silicon makes its way beyond white-box vendors, into traditional data center vendor portfolios.

Western Digital's Long Trip from Open Standards to Open Source Chips - It started as a microprocessor pioneer in the 1970s. Now, the company is charting a new course in open source silicon