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Microsoft Cloud drives record fourth quarter results
Fri, 20th Jul 2018
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Microsoft reports impressive Q2 results with revenue of $30.1bn, up 17%, and operating income of $10.4bn, up 35%.

Facebook commits to 100% solar power for data center campus
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Facebook's Prineville data center campus will be powered 100% by renewable energy, thanks to a partnership with Pacific Power.

Lenovo combines public cloud with private in latest development
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Lenovo Data Center Group has announced the latest member to its ThinkAgile portfolio - a 'cloud in a box' solution.

New 17 acre data centre campus opens for business in London
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Virtus has announced two data centres have officially gone online with another on the near horizon, burgeoning its IT capacity in the region.

Mercedes F1 head of IT discusses data storage – and the woes of backup
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Matt Harris has been with the team for 20 years and here he shares its incredible data history - including a data outage he will take to his grave.

Intel celebrates its 50th anniversary with promises, drones, and bell-rings
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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It’s Intel’s 50th birthday and the company has wasted no time looking to the future – and back on the past of computing history.

Interconnection abound: Equinix to launch its ECX Fabric to APAC
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Later this year Equinix will roll out its Cloud Exchange Fabric across Asia Pacific to meet surging demand for inter-metro and private connectivity.

New MIX PoP launched at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center
Thu, 19th Jul 2018
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Aruba has secured a PoP deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to establish new interconnections from its modern (and huge) data centre campus.

Google invests in massive subsea cable connecting U.S. and Europe
Wed, 18th Jul 2018
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network infrastructure
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public cloud
The tech giant has invested in a huge private subsea cable project across the Atlantic Ocean to expand its global cloud network.

Alibaba Cloud to team up with two-time F1 champion
Wed, 18th Jul 2018
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Alibaba Cloud has announced a partnership with former Formula One (F1) champion Fernando Alonso to provide cloud infrastructure.

Surging demand driving revenue up 18% for cloud service providers
Wed, 18th Jul 2018
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IDC found with the ongoing influx of digital transformation, cloud service providers have a high degree of confidence in their business outlook.

Construction begins on EU-funded ‘best data centre in the world’
Wed, 18th Jul 2018
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A consortium of vendors has celebrated construction commencement of a project designed to test and validate the feasibility of new data centre tech.

AvantiGas opts for UK-based Six Degrees in multi-cloud transformation
Tue, 17th Jul 2018
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The deal will see Six Degrees building and hosting the international company's data and IT services on a multi-cloud platform across 16 countries.

Nlyte releases DCIM solution powered by IBM’s Watson IoT
Tue, 17th Jul 2018
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Nlyte Software has announced the availability of what it has deemed the ‘industry’s first’ cognitive DCIM solution.

How brick-and-mortar retail is becoming a leader in edge computing
Tue, 17th Jul 2018
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edge computing
Schneider Electric's Dave Johnson says few industries feel the disruption of new digital business models more than traditional retailers.

US biggest player in $12b data center market – but APAC’s catching up
Tue, 17th Jul 2018
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The global data center transformation market is in a good place for all those involved in the industry – and this trend is set to continue.

DE-CIX partners with euNetworks to launch ‘Project Reach’
Tue, 17th Jul 2018
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The point of the Project is to reach into more data centres and expand the locations where customers can connect to the DE-CIX peering platform.

Orange acquires Basefarm for €350m to strengthen European cloud reach
Mon, 16th Jul 2018
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Orange says the acquisition will reinforce its position in the cloud computing services market across the continent.

STT GDC signs deal with SGIX to host services in data center
Mon, 16th Jul 2018
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced a partnership deal with Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX).

Infomart Data Centers reveal huge sustainability gains
Sat, 14th Jul 2018
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Infomart has blazed a green trail in its environmental responsibility by recycling more than 1.9 million pounds of data center infrastructure.