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Spending on public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) grew almost 41% in 2020 and is now worth $64.3bn, according to the latest market data from analyst Gartner.
Amazon remains the largest IaaS provider, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei. Gartner said that these five...
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Norwegian colocation provider Green Mountain has signed a heat reuse agreement that looks set to pave the way for the creation of the world’s largest land-based trout farm.
The agreement will see the waste heated water generated by the firm’s DC2-Telemark facility in Rjukan, Norway, piped into...
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Extreme Networks is making a locally hosted version of its ExtremeCloud IQ cloud management platform available to its UK customer base with the help of Microsoft Azure’s London-based datacentre region.
The company, which specialises in the manufacture of wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment, said the...
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Meal-kit company Gousto has deployed the Sisense Fusion platform to give data access to more people from around the business. This data democratisation will be used to support the company as it prepares for its next phase of growth.
Gousto sends food and recipes to families...
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A physical tour of a datacentre has traditionally been an important part of the sales process for any colocation operator looking to entice enterprises or hyperscale cloud firms to consider renting space from them.
“Historically, datacentre tours have been an industry staple, used to show prospective...
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Delivering incremental process improvement in the cloud requires sufficient visibility of networks and applications for monitoring and management, particularly when workloads are less than static or predictable – and private cloud is no different.
Suppliers often recommend not only a continuous (even agile) process to achieve...
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A $1bn distributed renewable energy (DRE) platform that seeks to improve the lives of one billion people around the globe by tackling climate change is being jointly created by two philanthropic organisations.
DRE refers to renewable energy generated by off-grid technologies and mini-grid setups that are...
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Brent Council is embarking on a £3.8m datacentre revamp, which will include an urgent upgrade of its backup and disaster recovery setup to safeguard it against cyber attacks.
The work will include an “incremental” migration from the council’s legacy “physical storage and virtualisation” setup to a...
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Host in Ireland’s efforts to encourage the Irish datacentre industry to help reverse the decline in the country’s native bee populations have entered a new phase, with plans afoot to create more than 1,000 orchards nationwide during the 2021 and 2022 planting season.
The organisation, which...
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Travelport has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud partner, while outlining plans to draw on the tech giant’s portfolio to boost the performance and scalability of its operations.
The travel retail firm’s flagship offering is a global marketplace platform, dubbed Travelport+, that connects...
