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Microsoft teams up with TomTom to launch Azure Location Based Services
Unified Communications

Microsoft teams up with TomTom to launch Azure Location Based Services

Microsoft is launching a new Azure service that aims to meet the geospatial needs enterprise customers that use location data.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Why New Zealand becoming Australia's data center hub can help save our planet
Hyperscale

Why New Zealand becoming Australia's data center hub can help save our planet

Data centers' power use soars; could NZ's green energy be an eco-friendly solution for Australia's data needs?.

By Julia Gabel • 13 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Dell EMC's hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio receives a major boost
Network Infrastructure

Dell EMC's hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio receives a major boost

Dell EMC boosts hyper-converged infrastructure with new PowerEdge servers, offering increased performance and configurability.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
DHL invests US$353 million in IT Services Data Center
Hyperscale

DHL invests US$353 million in IT Services Data Center

The IT Services Data Center has provided critical IT infrastructure, business application development and support initiatives for the company...

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
New features announced for VMware Cloud on AWS
Virtualisation

New features announced for VMware Cloud on AWS

Availability, networking, and security features added and extended native integrations with AWS Direct Connect.

By Kai Ping Lew • 5 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
HPE says hybrid IT crucial for survival in retail – and how to implement it
Data Analytics

HPE says hybrid IT crucial for survival in retail – and how to implement it

​Digital disruption is happening across industries around the world and HPE asserts none more so than retail - the tech giant discusses hybrid IT.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Japanese telco giant opens new data center in Johannesburg
Hyperscale

Japanese telco giant opens new data center in Johannesburg

Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications and Internet Solutions of South Africa have launched the Nexcenter Parklands Data Center in Johannesburg.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Frost & Sullivan names Indonesia's top data center service provider
Unified Communications

Frost & Sullivan names Indonesia's top data center service provider

Frost - Sullivan honours top Indonesian companies for leadership, innovation, customer service and product development.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
GDS Holdings and Alibaba China data center development underway
Alibaba

GDS Holdings and Alibaba China data center development underway

GDS Holdings is partnering with Alibaba to develop a new 5000 square meter data center campus in Hebei Province.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
New availability and recovery capabilities announced for AWS database services
Hyperscale

New availability and recovery capabilities announced for AWS database services

New Multi-Master capability makes Amazon Aurora the first relational database service to scale out both reads and writes across multiple data centers.

By Kai Ping Lew • 7 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
List of world's most resilient data center operators released
Hyperscale

List of world's most resilient data center operators released

The research included a list of 150 data centre operators, with the most resilient put into the top 50 list - who came out on top?.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Survey reveals cloud IT asset visibility crucial to cut costs
Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Survey reveals cloud IT asset visibility crucial to cut costs

The general consensus is that IT executives remain extremely concerned about the visibility of applications deployed in the cloud.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
PHOTO GALLERY: DataCentres Ireland 2017 in Dublin
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PHOTO GALLERY: DataCentres Ireland 2017 in Dublin

DataCentres Ireland 2017 took place last week in Dublin, celebrating its sixth birthday with a record attendance - check out some of the photos.

By Ashton Young • 1 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Dell Technologies: 2018 will be the year of the mega cloud
Robotics

Dell Technologies: 2018 will be the year of the mega cloud

Dell Technologies predicts a strong focus on human-machine partnership as one of the key trends in the technology market for 2018.

By Julia Gabel • 8 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Metronode's Perth DC to land subsea cable linking Asia
Network Infrastructure

Metronode's Perth DC to land subsea cable linking Asia

Metronode's Shenton Park data centre in Perth has been chosen as the landing station for a new subsea cable connecting Singapore and Perth via Indonesia.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Photo gallery: The world's most extreme data centers
Data Analytics

Photo gallery: The world's most extreme data centers

Negative 40 degrees, this facility is in an environment so cold they have to heat the air used to cool the data center.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Amazon Web Services vs. Azure
Hyperscale

Amazon Web Services vs. Azure

Apparently, AWS deploys about 200,000 updates each month so we are never short of new innovations to work with.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Equinix: 8 predictions for IT in 2018
Hyperscale

Equinix: 8 predictions for IT in 2018

Equinix highlights the rise of private blockchains, AI's mainstream breakthrough, and IoT's edge computing needs among its eight IT predictions for 2018.

By Julia Gabel • 8 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Macquarie offers to buy Aussie cloud company for $18m
Hyperscale

Macquarie offers to buy Aussie cloud company for $18m

Macquarie Telecom Group offers AUD $17.9m for cloud hosting firm Bulletproof, aiming to purchase all shares at a significant premium amidst declining earnings.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017