By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s best-in-class cloud services offering, had downtime of only 2.5 hours in 2015. You may think their uptime of 99.9997 percent had something to do with an engineering team of hundreds, a budget of billions, or dozens of data centers across the globe—but you’d … Read more
Online retail giant and cloud services provider Amazon, Inc. announced at the beginning of July that it would be expanding its cloud colocation real estate with new India data centers in 2016.
Amazon announced in early June that it is starting construction on a Virginia solar farm in order to further the company’s data center sustainability efforts.
Social media giant Facebook may build an Ireland data center in the near future.
Social gaming company Zynga has made the decision to push its data back to Amazon cloud services after spending two years building out its own data centers.
Cloud giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft released their 2015 first quarter expenditure reports and proved all of the money they have invested into data centers is paying off.
Toward the end of April, SoftLayer announced the opening of its newest Netherlands data center in Almere.
Google is expanding its presence in Oregon with a new data center in The Dalles.
In early April, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill to kill a controversial property tax, enabling Apple and other major industry players to resume their data center projects in the state.
An Amazon official testified in early February in front of Oregon lawmakers that the company is interested in creating as many as 11 new data centers in the area, but a tax issue will need to be addressed first.
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