Stories by Ashton - Page 9
Colt DCS expanding London data centre & almost doubling power supply
Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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hyperscale
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dc
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colocation
The company says the investment is simply to meet unrelenting demand, with the bulk of the expanded halls already claimed.
Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why
Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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devops
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.
Survey: Rising role of IT in physical security provides opportunities
Mon, 10th Sep 2018
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physical security
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cybersecurity
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whitepaper
In addition to taking care of cybersecurity, IT departments are having to adapt to spearhead issues set forth by the physical security dept.
US public cloud startup moves into Interxion's Amsterdam data centre
Sat, 8th Sep 2018
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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dc
The company is looking to utilise Interxion's facilities in Amsterdam to better serve its European customer base.
Hydro66 appoints new exec to support blockchain investments
Thu, 6th Sep 2018
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hyperscale
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blockchain
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colocation
A new executive role has been created to support the company's ambitions to take advantage of the opportunities present in the blockchain markets.
DDN completes $60m acquisition and reboots Tintri for business
Wed, 5th Sep 2018
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tintri
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m&a
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ddn
There were six rounds of heated negotiations and an extensive bidding process, but now that it's complete DDN is wasting no time.
Telcos moving 'manically' to replicate cloud services provider model
Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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uc
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hyperscale
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dc
IDC says the telco industry is scrambling to convert entire data centres from vertically integrated stacks to software-defined infrastructure.
VMware targeting burgeoning multi-cloud market with new Cloud Services
Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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virtualisation
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devops
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it automation
VMware has unveiled its latest cloud services focused on overcoming obstacles in the flourishing multi-cloud market.
Diginex and Symbioses deploy decentralised supercomputing network
Mon, 3rd Sep 2018
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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crypto
Diginex will provide up to 2,500 nodes at its Switzerland data centre to perform optimised cryptocurrency mining on the Symbioses network.
Boom in some areas of data center infrastructure, decay in others
Fri, 31st Aug 2018
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network infrastructure
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datacentre infrastructure
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network switches
It would seem the steady march of innovation continues, with some technologies riding the wave and others being left in its wake.
Equinix opens up hybrid cloud deployments with VMware partnership
Thu, 30th Aug 2018
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virtualisation
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hybrid cloud
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hyperscale
The interconnection and data center giant has announced it is partnering with VMware to offer private connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS.
Lenovo forms partnership to fuel smart city data centers on the edge
Thu, 30th Aug 2018
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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edge computing
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.
Cloudera launches new data warehousing for hybrid cloud
Wed, 29th Aug 2018
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hybrid cloud
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hyperscale
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dc
Cloudera analytics general manager Anupam Singh says hybrid is the new norm for data warehouses, leaving first-gen facilities behind.
Hyperscale data centre CAPEX up 59% - but dominated by usual suspects
Tue, 28th Aug 2018
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hyperscale
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dc
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iaas
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.
Former Cisco CEO joins Rubrik as advisor to the Board
Sat, 25th Aug 2018
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virtualisation
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it automation
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multi-cloud
The tech industry is a bit like musical chairs with executives seemingly being poached left, right and centre.
VMware, Dell, Nutanix and HPE leading on-premises cloud market
Fri, 24th Aug 2018
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virtualisation
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network infrastructure
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hybrid cloud
There has certainly been a lot of buzz surrounding hybrid cloud in recent times, and it's only getting louder.
Enterprise storage drives record Q2 semiconductor revenue, Samsung on top
Fri, 24th Aug 2018
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storage
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semiconductors
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hyperscale
Relentless demand for data equates to steady growth for data center infrastructure – and the semiconductor market is no exception.
EMEA leading global cloud adoption race – but it's not all good news
Thu, 23rd Aug 2018
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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dc
A new report has revealed cloud adoption is rife in EMEA, but despite this, most organisations lack even the most basic security tools.
Survey: Vast majority of businesses moving VMs to cloud
Thu, 23rd Aug 2018
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virtualisation
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Today Druva released the results of its survey to determine the state of virtualisation in the cloud, with a number of interesting findings.
'Fascinating' vendor cloud battle ongoing in healthy SaaS market
Wed, 22nd Aug 2018
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saas
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data analytics
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martech
It hasn't been around for long, but Synergy Research Group says the enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) can now be considered mature.