Month: August 2019

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Microsoft Azure opens New Switzerland Regions and 31 Edge Sites

LAUNCHES 2 REGIONS, 31 EDGEs, 14 MEET-MEs The cloud arm of the tech giant Microsoft, has just announced the opening of its new Switzerland cloud regions and the global addition of 31 new Azure edge sites. The new cloud datacenter…

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Israel Prepares Tender for Massive Cloud Data Center

AMAZON SEEM TO BE INTERESTED The government of Israel has taken a further step in its plans to develop a major regional cloud facility and this project is already attracting the world’s cloud giants. Under Israel’s Finance ministry, the Government…

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VMware to acquire Pivotal and Carbon Black for $5B

VMWARE Q2 REVENUE ALSO AT $2.44B Cloud software giant VMware, has announced entering a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud-native platform provider Pivotal Software, and cloud-native security firm Carbon Black for approximately $5 billion. This announcement which was made alongside…

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Microsoft Acquires more Land in Sweden for Data Centers

STARTS CONSTRUCTION IN FEW MONTHS Microsoft has acquired a 120,000 hectares of land in Staffanstorp, a municipality located outside of Malmo in southern Sweden. This recent property was bought from Kilen Krysset, a private real-estate firm. Although the cost and…

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NextDC Launches Its First Micro Data Center in Perth

NEXTDC P2 JUST GOT A SIBLING Australian data center operator NextDC, has launched its first micro data center in the central business district of Perth, capital of Western Australia. Built to offer host interconnection services, the new micro or edge…

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Google’s Data Center Executive Joins Aligned Energy

COLEMAN ALSO WORKED WITH YAHOO Aligned Energy, a data center provider based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has just appointed Michael Coleman, as its Global Head of Design and Delivery. Prior to joining Aligned, Coleman served as Head of…

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ScaleMatrix Launches Its Enhanced Cloud Platform ScaleCloud

REDESIGNED TO SUPPORT COMPUTE-INTENSIVE WORKLOADS San Diego based colocation and cloud provider ScaleMatrix, has just announced the launch of its Enhanced ScaleCloud performance cloud platform. The new CPU-Based ScaleCloud is a redesigned implementation of the company’s high-performance cloud platform, which is…

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Reveal Data Launches Its New Data Center in Tokyo

THE COMPANY’S 19TH DATA CENTER eDiscovery and investigation software provider Reveal Data, has announced the launch of its newest data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company made the announcement during the annual conference for the International Legal Technology Providers Association…

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Digital Realty expands IBM Cloud in Australia

IBM CLOUD DIRECT LINK DEDICATED HOSTING SERVICE Digital Realty has just added IBM Cloud Direct Link to its services at the 3.5-hectare data center campus in Sydney, Australia. This Digital Realty facility, which is on Templar Road, Erskine Park, will…

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Advanced gets £2B Investment from BC Partners

BC PARTNERS BUYS 50% STAKE UK-based software service provider Advanced, which was acquired in 2015 by Vista Equity Partners, has received a £2billion private equity investment from BC Partners. While Advanced will be using this fund to support its cloud…

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