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Stories by Ashton - Page 13

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UK spending more on cloud than data centres - but is it money well spent?

Wed, 27th Jun 2018
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New research has revealed over the last three years UK businesses have spent more on cloud than on data centres, but Claranet says many aren't ready.
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Colt extends relationship with IBM to enable private network connectivity

Wed, 27th Jun 2018
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The partnership will enable customers to establish a private network connection from within their data centers or office locations to IBM Cloud.
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DDN acquires Lustre business from Intel, significant investment to come

Tue, 26th Jun 2018
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DDN acquires Intel's Lustre File System business, aiming to boost its HPC, analytics, and cloud portfolio with substantial investment in new features.
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Public cloud services market thriving, but dominated by the big guys

Mon, 25th Jun 2018
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The top 16 market leaders in the market account for over half of the market, with IDC expecting this stranglehold to continue its growth.
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AT&T offloads 31 data centers to trim $1.1b off colossal debt

Mon, 25th Jun 2018
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The giant telco reportedly has $189 billion of debt, and the data center sale (18 in the US and 13 international) is a move to reduce that.
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“Painful blindspot” addressed by ThousandEyes' new multi-cloud solution

Mon, 25th Jun 2018
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The meteoric rise of multi-cloud environments has seen demand for more visibility, as well as a significant change in the traditional data centre.
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Qumulo's new archive file storage solution mimics cloud services

Thu, 21st Jun 2018
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Qumulo has announced it is 'redefining archive file storage' with the release of its new Nearline Archive series.
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Huge money being made in U.S. data center real estate

Thu, 21st Jun 2018
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A real estate investment trust has revealed the value of two recent data center sales, with the total sum exceeding $85 million.
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Microsoft announces first cloud investment in Norway data centres

Thu, 21st Jun 2018
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Microsoft has made its first data centre investment in the Norway after revealing plans to add two cloud data centres to its Nordic footprint.
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Flexenclosure polishes off CenturyLink's new Ecuador data center

Thu, 21st Jun 2018
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The custom-designed data center was pre-fabricated, pre-integrated and fully tested in Sweden before being shipped to Ecuador.
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SwiftStack adds multi-cloud features to its platform

Wed, 20th Jun 2018
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Designed to facilitate private data centers & public cloud, they have been added to the open source community in the newly created 1space project.
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Visa's cockup put down to 'very rare' data centre crash

Wed, 20th Jun 2018
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51.2 million Visa payments failed to process on Friday 1 June (just in time for after-work drinks) and the company says it all came down to a switch.
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StorageCraft claims to be disrupting storage silos

Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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StorageCraft sees strong momentum as channel partners and customers embrace the company's approach to data storage and protection.
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Dropbox deploys Western Digital large-scale cloud infrastructure

Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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Western Digital has made major strides in the data center industry with the announcement that Dropbox has deployed its newest innovation.
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“Unusual' growth in public cloud infrastructure market - here's why

Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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Public cloud provider spending on data center infrastructure surged forward in 2018's first quarter, the highest growth figure seen in nine quarters.
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HPE leaping ahead in exascale race with world's largest Arm supercomputer

Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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​Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a major stepping stone in its path to exascale computing with a new supercomputer for the U.S. DOE.
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Vertiv extends partnership with Russian data centre IXcellerate

Mon, 18th Jun 2018
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The relationship between the companies has extended for more than five years,with Vertiv gaining more input over time.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rick McElroy shares how he'd breach an enterprise

Sat, 16th Jun 2018
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Carbon Black's Rick McElroy asserts at the end of the day, cyberwar is not about systems but rather humans vs humans as they are the weakest link.
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Industry cloud market among best opportunities over next decade

Fri, 15th Jun 2018
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IDC says worldwide spending on industry cloud is undertaking a huge surge this year, led by healthcare providers but with growth in all other sectors.
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Exclusive: Vertiv CEO reveals company's bets for the future

Thu, 14th Jun 2018
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​At this year's Datacloud Europe event in Monaco, we were able to sit down with Vertiv CEO Rob Johnson to discuss some of what is to come.