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RING Digital Media Storage

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Flash Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Rich media libraries are expanding exponentially, as media outlets and platforms proliferate.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure Infrastructure + Hardware Management Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Device Security Management Security Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

Four in 10 (40%) CIOs have increased their company’s security budget compared to three years ago.

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KPN joins CSC, BT, Internet Solutions, OpSource, LayeredTech, and other leading providers in utilizing VMTurbo to control and automate cloud operations.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Flash Infrastructure Management Storage + Servers

CloudSigma is upgrading its public cloud storage offering to an all solid-state drive (SSD) solution, powered by SolidFire. Abandoning magnetic-based, hard-disk drive (HDD) storage altogether due to its inability to keep pace with the randomized, multi-tenant access of a public cloud, CloudSigma’s new, all-SSD offering enables companies to realize the scalability, flexibility and cost-savings advantages of a public cloud while ensuring the reliability and performance of their storage.

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Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides corporate colocation and private cloud services from Central London. The transaction adds £16m of revenues and significant scale to 6DG’s hosting portfolio. It also develops the Group’s presence in Europe’s largest data centre market, positioning 6DG as one of a small number of colocation providers with both Central London and outside M25 datacentres.

Beta of SUSE Cloud 2.0 launches

Beta offers early access to the next version of the enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution.

Virtustream to double US Cloud capacity

Growing demand for enterprise class cloud services for production applications.

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Global Switch secures financing

Successful closure of a new ?425 million revolving credit facility, upsized from ?375 million.

Cloud will only reach tipping point if SMEs become ‘confident adopters’

Small business adoption of Cloud is growing but more needs to be done to improve confidence and...

Data centre growth continues amidst Brexit construction uncertainty

New data centre sites approved as 10,000 MW of new renewable energy expected by 2030 through €2bn...

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RING Digital Media Storage

MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

IT security challenges CIOs

VMTurbo builds momentum

CloudSigma introduces all-SSD storage for Public Cloud IaaS Platform

Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator