
: Home DCK Top 5 Data Center Stories : Week of April 30th Top 5 Data Center Stories : Week of April 30th April 30th , 2011 Rich Miller For your weekend reading , here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past : week CenturyLink to Acquire Savvis for 2.5 Billion CenturyLink , Inc . has agreed to acquire Savvis , Inc . for 2.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that will boost the telco’s capabilities in managed hosting and cloud computing . CenturyLink is the third-largest telecom company in the U.S . having just completed an acquisition of Qwest . The transaction continues the consolidation in the managed hosting and cloud computing , space Microsoft Reveals its Specialty Servers , Racks As it seeks to slash power usage across its global cloud