Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: December 15, 2019

Capital One to Shut Down Its Last Three Data Centers Next Year - Pushing against the hybrid-cloud narrative, the bank is ‘all-in on public cloud.’

Going Public, Vertiv Expects to Pay Down Debt, Eyes Acquisitions - A merger deal would see Vertiv go public again and fuel its next stage of growth.

How Enterprises Could One Day Use Their Data Centers to Be Their Own 5G Providers - A demo shows feasibility of 5G and LTE edge with containers, Kubernetes, and no NFV.

Chinese State-Backed Data Center Builder Claims Record Investment, Led by Morgan Stanley - Tenglong Holding Group, aka Tamron, says it’s raised $3.7 billion to build data centers across China.

Douglas Toombs, VP analyst, Gartner

How to Measure Your Cloud Success in Kilowatts - A Gartner analyst suggests kilowatts can be “the perfect progress metric” for implementation of an enterprise cloud strategy.