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Colt DCS expanding London data centre & almost doubling power supply

Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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The company says the investment is simply to meet unrelenting demand, with the bulk of the expanded halls already claimed.
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Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why

Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.
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Survey: Rising role of IT in physical security provides opportunities

Mon, 10th Sep 2018
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In addition to taking care of cybersecurity, IT departments are having to adapt to spearhead issues set forth by the physical security dept.
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US public cloud startup moves into Interxion's Amsterdam data centre

Sat, 8th Sep 2018
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The company is looking to utilise Interxion's facilities in Amsterdam to better serve its European customer base.
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Hydro66 appoints new exec to support blockchain investments

Thu, 6th Sep 2018
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A new executive role has been created to support the company's ambitions to take advantage of the opportunities present in the blockchain markets.
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DDN completes $60m acquisition and reboots Tintri for business

Wed, 5th Sep 2018
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There were six rounds of heated negotiations and an extensive bidding process, but now that it's complete DDN is wasting no time.
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Telcos moving 'manically' to replicate cloud services provider model

Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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IDC says the telco industry is scrambling to convert entire data centres from vertically integrated stacks to software-defined infrastructure.
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VMware targeting burgeoning multi-cloud market with new Cloud Services

Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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VMware has unveiled its latest cloud services focused on overcoming obstacles in the flourishing multi-cloud market.
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Diginex and Symbioses deploy decentralised supercomputing network

Mon, 3rd Sep 2018
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Diginex will provide up to 2,500 nodes at its Switzerland data centre to perform optimised cryptocurrency mining on the Symbioses network.
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Boom in some areas of data center infrastructure, decay in others

Fri, 31st Aug 2018
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It would seem the steady march of innovation continues, with some technologies riding the wave and others being left in its wake.
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Equinix opens up hybrid cloud deployments with VMware partnership

Thu, 30th Aug 2018
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The interconnection and data center giant has announced it is partnering with VMware to offer private connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS.
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Lenovo forms partnership to fuel smart city data centers on the edge

Thu, 30th Aug 2018
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Edge computing is continuing to meet and even exceed its hype, with Lenovo Data Center Group today ramping up the party after partnering with Pivot3.
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Cloudera launches new data warehousing for hybrid cloud

Wed, 29th Aug 2018
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Cloudera analytics general manager Anupam Singh says hybrid is the new norm for data warehouses, leaving first-gen facilities behind.
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Hyperscale data centre CAPEX up 59% - but dominated by usual suspects

Tue, 28th Aug 2018
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In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.
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Former Cisco CEO joins Rubrik as advisor to the Board

Sat, 25th Aug 2018
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The tech industry is a bit like musical chairs with executives seemingly being poached left, right and centre.
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VMware, Dell, Nutanix and HPE leading on-premises cloud market

Fri, 24th Aug 2018
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There has certainly been a lot of buzz surrounding hybrid cloud in recent times, and it's only getting louder.
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Enterprise storage drives record Q2 semiconductor revenue, Samsung on top

Fri, 24th Aug 2018
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​Relentless demand for data equates to steady growth for data center infrastructure – and the semiconductor market is no exception.
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EMEA leading global cloud adoption race – but it's not all good news

Thu, 23rd Aug 2018
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A new report has revealed cloud adoption is rife in EMEA, but despite this, most organisations lack even the most basic security tools.
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Survey: Vast majority of businesses moving VMs to cloud

Thu, 23rd Aug 2018
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Today Druva released the results of its survey to determine the state of virtualisation in the cloud, with a number of interesting findings.
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'Fascinating' vendor cloud battle ongoing in healthy SaaS market

Wed, 22nd Aug 2018
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It hasn't been around for long, but Synergy Research Group says the enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) can now be considered mature.