Blueprint: Distributed and Virtualized Data Center Architecture

by Vinay Rathore Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Infinera While there has been a strong trend toward creating bigger and more powerful centralized data centers to meet end user needs, there has been another less notable trend toward pushing the data center closer to the end users for the same reasons.  Large data centers create efficiency through a centralized location that accommodates equipment that shares centralized resources (UPS, generators,...

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The Leading Chinese Carriers Agree to Infrastructure Sharing

China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom reached a major agreement on sharing certain mobile network infrastructure. The companies have formed a new company, China Communications Facilities Services, whose mission will be the construction, maintenance and operation of telecommunications towers.  The joint venture will also cover the construction, maintenance and operation of ancillary facilities including base station control rooms, power...

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Deutsche Telekom Opens Germany's Largest Data Center

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm, has opened the largest data center in Germany. The state-of-the-art facility, which took 18 months to construct, is located in Biere, near Magdeburg. It offers 5,400 square meters of space (approx. 58,000 square feet) for around 30,000 servers, and could be expanded to almost 40,000 square meters. Telekom has fitted out an existing T-Systems data center in Magdeburg, not far from Biere, almost...

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Deutsche Telekom Signs Salesforce.com

Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems division has been appointed as primary reseller for Salesforce.com's CRM Platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, T-Systems will serve as data center provider for salesforce.com’s upcoming German data center. The companies are looking at expanding the partnership to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at a later date. Deutsche Telekom said the deal strengthens its mission to be the leading...

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Microsoft Acquires InMage for Cloud-based Recovery Tools

Microsoft has acquired InMage, a start-up providing cloud-based business continuity solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. InMage, which is based in San Jose, California, develops software for backup and disaster recovery.  Its Scout products collects data changes from production servers as they occur, directly in memory before they are written to disk, and sends them to a software appliance called the InMage Scout Server. Microsoft...

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