Should your enterprise own its data center? Would it be better to use the services of a hosting or collocation company? Does the emergence of cloud computing make this decision easier?

Google is offering to host domains for US users with the launch of Google Domains beta.

New instances launched across seven regions deliver the highest level of processor performance on EC2, aimed at high-performance computing applications.

Verne Global, operator of datacentres in the frozen north, has landed more funding to grow its business.

iiNet was yesterday forced to take its emails, websites, and customer portals offline due to a failure of the air conditioning in its Perth datacentre.

IT industry futurists who proclaim the end of data centers as we know them forget perhaps that some enterprises are not likely to give proprietary solutions away to others -- and that even cloud service providers need the economics of scale to succeed.