Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: December 8, 2019

With Aporeto, Palo Alto Looks Away from the Firewall and Toward the Future - Seeing its firewall sales softening, the security vendor makes another acquisition to reorient itself for the cloud era.

CyrusOne Confirms Ransomware Attack, Says Six Customers Affected - The attack was limited to its managed services business in a single New York data center, the company said.

AWS Reveals Two Different Edge Data Center Plays at re:Invent - Two new types of AWS cloud infrastructure come online in Los Angeles and Chicago.

AWS Has a New, 32-Core Arm Server Chip - Based on Arm’s newer Neoverse N1 cores, the part is another jab at Intel’s near-monopoly in the data center.

Breaking Down Amazon’s Storage-Related AWS News Announcements - Storage was the star in a string of AWS news announcements leading up to re:invent. Here’s what it all means.