Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: May 14, 2021

Red Hat Talks CentOS Past, Present, and Future - Making the case for CentOS Stream, Red Hat experts promise that the much more frequently released updates will be stable.

Thinking About Cloud vs On-Prem vs Colocation Has Gotten Smarter - Companies aren’t rushing to move all workloads to the cloud, but they aren’t sticking to old on-prem models either, survey shows.

Cologix CEO Bill Fathers on the Pandemic, the Colocation Market, and Strategy - The Data Center Podcast: After a nervous pause at the start of the pandemic, the major North American data center provider’s business skyrocketed.

VMware Names Company Veteran Raghu Raghuram Its Next CEO - Sanjay Poonen, who was reportedly vying for the job, is leaving the company.

Pandemic, AWS Bombing Plot Heighten Data Center Physical Security Concerns - The failed AWS plot highlights ongoing rise in physical threat activity accompanying the pandemic and social unrest.