Monthly Archives: July 2014

CenturyLink chosen by CoinTerra as Data Center Provider

CenturyLink announced Wednesday that it has signed a multimegawatt data center deal to host CoinTerra Inc.’s rapidly growing Bitcoin-mining operations in CenturyLink data centers. CoinTerra designs, produces and operates best-in-class hardware and software that power the Bitcoin blockchain ecosystem. Bitcoin is a … Continue reading

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Bitcoin Infrastructure May Grow by $600M

Bitcoin Infrastructure May Grow by $600M in Second Half of 2014 http://ow.ly/zaUCy

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Montgomery County MD steps up tax incentives with $12M for ByteGrid Data Center tenants

Montgomery County MD has agreed to give tenants of ByteGrid’s Silver Spring data center up to $12 million in property tax breaks over 12 years, the first such move for a county looking to foster a competitive data center cluster … Continue reading

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Avere raises $20M to make its storage boxes a hit for high performance at scale

Avere Systems, a company that sells data center storage hardware containing fast solid-state drives and more traditional hard disk drives, announced today $20 million in fresh funding. The deal should have the effect of making Avere a bigger name in storage … Continue reading

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Apple Is Building Another Solar Farm Near Its North Carolina Data Center

As part of its sustained effort to power its business using renewable energy, Apple is planning on building a third solar farm alongside its Maiden, North Carolina-based data center. The news comes from the Hickory Daily Record (via MacRumors), which … Continue reading

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES CONVERGE IN MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTERS

Is information technology as a discrete discipline disappearing? Most companies are expanding their reliance on networks and cloud services. In turn, network and cloud service providers are utilizing multitenant data centers to fulfill their operational and business needs. These data … Continue reading

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