BROWSING: data center

A power failure last week at a Verizon Communications data center caused cascading problems with JetBlue Airways that delayed passengers nationwide, according to multiple reports. Business Finance News reports the data center outage impacted JetBlue's check-in, gate, mobile app, website and toll-free customer service number. JetBlue...

Flexenclosure provides tips on ICT project deployments in developing nations With the data boom in parts of Asia and much of Africa continuing to grow exponentially, business opportunities in the information and communications technology sectors have never been more exciting. However, they have probably never...

How data center vendors and operators can maximize their facilities’ performance Power usage effectiveness has been an important metric in the data center world for some time now. Companies running data center facilities typically strive for the lowest PUE they can achieve in order to...

UPDATE: Verizon CTO blasts reports of possible sale of enterprise assets Verizon CTO Fran Shammo, in comments made today during the 2015 Wells Fargo Securities Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, called reports that Verizon was considering a sale of its enterprise assets "factless. These are the...

Western Digital, which sells digital storage solutions among other products, announced it will buy SanDisk for $19 billion. The boards of directors of both companies have voted to approve the deal. In materials provided to investors, Western Digital said the acquisition is part of a...

Windstream and TierPoint include ongoing partnership as part of transaction Telecommunication services provider Windstream said it plans to sell its data center business to TierPoint for $575 million. The deal, which is structured as an all-cash transaction, is set to boost TierPoint’s current operations in...

Belgium data center struck causing errors on Google Compute Engine persistent disks Four lightning strikes affecting the power grid around the Google Compute Engine data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium, caused a small data loss and a number of persistent disk errors. Google uses persistent disks as...

Fiber-to-the-tower expansion supports carrier move toward network densification Fiber, backhaul and infrastructure services provider Zayo Group this week announced it has sold fiber-to-the-tower services applicable to 800 macro and small cell sites in the past 18 months. The company estimates the services will yield a more...

Fiber expansion to add 350 route miles to the network Continuing to expand its fiber footprint, Colorado-based Zayo Group Holdings plans to hook up some 500 Seattle-area towers to fiber as part of a mobile infrastructure expansion strategy. Zayo is providing the fiber-to-the-tower connections in service...

Council Bluffs, Iowa, is rolling out free municipal Wi-Fi WASHINGTON – Council Bluffs, Iowa, could soon become one of the first cities in the country to offer free Wi-Fi Internet as a public service to all of its residents. The project, which began in 2014, started...

Nokia today announced its entry into the data center market with the launch of the AirFrame solution set, billed as integrating the worlds of IT and telecommunications to create an answer for telco IT, and built for telcos running mobile virtual network functions within...

Apple has reached a deal with the state of Arizona to open a $2 billion global network “command center,” according to a Feb. 2 announcement from state Gov. Doug Ducey. The facility, planned for Mesa, Ariz., just outside of Phoenix, is expected to employ 150...

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in the telecom, IT and security industries. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll...

Sweden-based Bahnhof AB, an Internet service provider, is taking advantage of the climate and population density in Stockholm to turn ventilated data center heat into usable energy. Bahnhof CEO John Karlung recently showed RCR Wireless News around its data center in Sweden’s capital and explained the...

Shanghai — The U.S. market remains a focus for Huawei, although the U.S. government has labeled the Chinese giant IT and telecommunications company as a security threat. The main driver to grow in the U.S. market relies on the enterprise business, which, according to...

SHANGHAI — Huawei has set a target for its recently launched enterprise business to become the leader in the IT infrastructure field. “We are leveraging our strength to the IT field,” said Eric Xu, rotating CEO and deputy chairman of the board at Huawei Technologies,...

Verizon's network proved to be the tipping point last week when Internet traffic reached a level that caused data sets to change and impacted networks around the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon added new routes to a dataset, and the relatively...