New season, new data centre solution?
Now that we’re coming to the end of March, it feels like spring has well and truly sprung. The days are getting longer, the sun is shining and the grass is looking greener. Many will make a start on...
View ArticleMedia streaming – keeping up in the media race
Gone are the days when we were shackled to TV sets and CD players to watch or listen to our favourite content. The technology revolution has drastically changed the way media content is provided and...
View Article5 ways AI and IoT will change the data centre and the edge as you know it
The world is heading for big. Not just big data, but big transformation which will introduce new ways of designing and running data centres. In Dublin, the industry heard from LinkedIn’s Zaid Ali Kahn...
View Article60% of global colocation revenues come from JUST 20 data centre destinations
26% of revenues come from the world’s top five metro areas alone. Data centres are being built all over the world, however, 59% of global revenues from wholesale and retail colocation come from just 20...
View ArticleFacebook could invest up to $20bn in a single hyperscale data centre campus
Local authorities are expected to approve a new development codenamed Morning Hornet in the coming hours. The world’s largest social media company could be about to announce one of the world’s largest...
View ArticleInternap buys IaaS giant for $132m
Grows data centre footprint to more than 50 facilities across the world and a combined customer portfolio of more than 10,000 businesses. IT infrastructure operator Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) has entered...
View ArticleGoogle announces large scale data centre, subsea cable deployments across the...
Company says it has spent over $30bn in IT infrastructure over three years, but warns it’s “not done yet” as its now seen as a communications brand instead of IT. Google has announced the opening of...
View ArticleGoogle to build data centre in Belgium bringing total investment to €800m
Third facility to employ up to 1,200 people and be put into work by mid-2019. Google has unveiled plans to build a third data centre in Belgium for a total capital expenditure of €253m. The building is...
View ArticleGoogle’s 14th cloud region opens for business
New Netherlands region, europe-west4, joins Belgium, London and Frankfurt in Europe. Google has brought online its 14th cloud region powered by the company’s data centre in Eemshaven, the Netherlands....
View ArticleHow to make intelligent cars a reality on the roads
by Russell Poole, Managing Director UK, Equinix With interconnection installed bandwidth capacity set to increase by 54% in the manufacturing sector by 2020 it is key that colocation data centres help...
View ArticleNew break out areas open to all clients
At LDeX, our customers are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve officially launched a new break out space for clients in both of our London and Manchester data centres. These new areas...
View ArticleGoogle has a $6bn data centre and green energy infrastructure masterplan to...
Company breaks ground in Tennessee and announces investment in Oklahoma as it reveals it employs up to 1,900 directly on its data centre campuses.Google has launched a cloud assault on all the world’s...
View ArticleGoogle to build more cloud data centres in Japan, could Sweden be next?
In eight days, the American internet giant has announced the construction of nine facilities with many more potentially on the cards.Google has announced the construction of three data centres in...
View ArticleApple to double down on data centre CAPEX in China
Comes after the Cupertino giant’s $1bn investment on a different facility in Guizhou is now known to be opening in 2020.Apple is reportedly planning to build a second data centre infrastructure in...
View ArticleAlibaba Cloud commits to EU with launch of 8 new products at MWC18
The cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group has launched eight products for the European market at the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona.For the first time Alibaba Cloud’s advanced big data...
View ArticleFirst UK universities to deploy IBM POWER9 servers reap benefits
Two Universities have become the first UK academic organisations to deploy IBM’s POWER9 system.Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Newcastle University are now benefiting from the system for...
View Article5G race ramping up with Huawei and Ericsson taking action
5G has been talked about for a number of years but the quest is really starting to heat up with actual implementations on the near horizon – which means a lot more data.This week at Barcelona’s Mobile...
View ArticleOn-premise data centre or go cloud? Here’s the differences
There is a lot of murkiness around cloud solutions and data centres because the distinctions aren’t always made clear – Paessler has provided it here in black & white.The main difference between a...
View ArticleWhy are on-premise data centers a thing of the past?
In the data center industry, the only thing that’s certain is change.And this change, like much of the world, is being driven by data. According to IDC, the global datasphere will grow to a whopping...
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