Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: July 2020

IBM Has Open Sourced Its Edge Device Platform and Wishes AWS and Microsoft Got On Board - IBM's Open Horizon is meant to make it easier to manage thousands of IoT devices as edge computing nodes.

Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch - Its CEO says the new serverless platform is cheaper and faster than Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s.

How a Small Town Outside Nashville Lured a Hyperscale Data Center - Gallatin officials expect the future facility, likely by Facebook, to have a transformative effect on the local economy.

AMD's second-generation Epyc server processor, codenamed

Why Google Cloud Turned to AMD to Solve for Runtime Encryption - AMD’s latest server chips enabled better scalability, less lag, and more memory than Intel SGX, the cloud provider said.

What Next-Generation Hybrid Cloud Means for Colocation Data Centers - Unlike their previous-gen versions, new hybrid-cloud frameworks are easier to deploy and do away with the 'cloud-vs-colo' dichotomy.

Kubernetes Co-Creator: CNF for Telcos May Need a Different Orchestrator - VMware’s Craig MucLuckie says cloud-native telco infrastructure will benefit from Kubernetes principles, but will need a lot of customization.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (left) on stage at VMworld 2019 with Joe Beda, a principal engineer at VMware and one of the three original creators of Kubernetes.

VMware Hands Control of Kubernetes Ingress Project Contour Over to CNCF - Joe Beda, one of its creators, said one reason for the move was reassuring non-VMware developers that Contour's development wouldn't be steered by a single company.

How Google Cloud Plans to Win Enterprises from AWS and Azure - GCP has been beefing up its enterprise strategy, and there are signs that the efforts are paying off.

What Containers and Kubernetes Mean for Colocation Data Centers - At first glance, it may seem that there's little impact, but containers make applications more portable, making infrastructure less "sticky."

Vantage's V6 data center in Santa Clara, California

Colony Leads $1.2B Equity Investment in Vantage Data Centers - Its new CEO Marc Ganzi at the helm, the REIT opens a new chapter with a data center deal.