Netflix fronts $100K for best cloud ideas

Netflix wants to hear about your great cloud computing ideas and is willing to pay for the privilege. Read more »

Netflix wants to hear about your great cloud computing ideas and is willing to pay for the privilege. Read more »
Telx is adding AWS Direct Connect for the New York metropolitan area, home to many businesses that might want faster, more secure connection to AWS US-East. Read more »
Data center sites and colocation centers in and around New York City are struggling to stay online with varying degrees of success. And there are reports of intermittent issues with undersea cables crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Read more »
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Data Centers have come under attack as terminally wasteful and “dirty” enterprises that offer little in the way of jobs. Joe Weinman, senior VP at Telx, disputes that, and says in fact they indirectly employee countless thousands across many industries. Read more »

Commoditization of the cloud may never happen, because like the hotel industry, there are too many variables that will matter. Some people will pay more for compute in a specific geographic location and even for computing on a specific day. Read more »
Data center operator Telx will break ground soon on a 215,000-square-foot data center next to an existing facility in Clifton, N.J. The network-rich Clifton Cloud Connection Center will target customers that want to build hybrid cloud computing solutions. Read more »
The demand for technology IPOs is making a slow and steady comeback. First MaxLiner, then broadband gear maker Calix Networks and now wireless LAN maker Meru Networks — Silicon Valley can perhaps afford to feel optimistic about the chances of other startups looking to go public. Read more »
Calix Networks, a Petaluma, Calif.-based broadband gear maker, sold 6.33 million shares at $13 each to raise $82 million from the public markets. One of the rare telecom IPOs, it could help boost the fortunes of other IPO candidates like Force 10 and Telx. Read more »
The Telx Group, an NYC-based data center operator, has filed for an initial public offering that could see it raise as much as $100 million from the public markets. With the demand for data centers and Internet services on an upswing, Telx’s IPO is very timely. Read more »
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