Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: September 7, 2018

Microsoft Blames "Severe Weather" for Azure Cloud Outage - Says weather-related voltage spike brought down data center cooling system in San Antonio

CyrusOne Erects Tower for Wireless Access to CME Data Center - Pitches antenna colocation services on the tower to high-frequency traders

Facebook to Build the Largest Hyperscale Data Center Singapore Has Ever Seen - Market expert says 11-story facility’s capacity will roughly equal total capacity of all data centers other hyperscalers have built on the island.

Rendering of Facebook's planned 11-story data center in Singapore

Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle - The startup has an ambitious goal to deploy more than 100 edge data center sites around the US by 2020.

A Vapor Edge Module at a cell tower (a rendering)

A VMworld Anatomy of an IBM Cloud Migration - IBM's biggest asset in courting the enterprise market may be its relationships, many of which go back more than half a century.