Tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday announced it will commission three “hyper-scale” data centers in India before 2015 end. “Microsoft has already started a private preview of these data centres with over 100…
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UK Gov, Ark Data Centres team up to launch new cost-saving data centre biz
The UK government has joined hands with SMB IT supplier Ark Data Centres to launch a new data centre business which it claims will help the public sector save £105m in IT…
Russia: Google, Twitter & Facebook must register as ‘organizers of information distribution’
Maxim Ksenzov, deputy chief of the Roskomnadzor: If Google, Facebook or Twitter “do not obey with the demands of the Russian law, they will be subjected to administrative sanctions.”
Google to set up new data center in Eemshaven
The new data centre, which is set to begin operations in 2017, will be a 120-megawatt facility built around 44 hectares and will about 150 permanent staff.
Microsoft expands Dynamics CRM reach to 17 new markets
Microsoft: We want to do everything we can to bring these cloud benefits to as many businesses and countries as possible.
IBM expands SoftLayer footprint with new London data centre
London data centre will also have a special offer for new orders that allows up to £293 off for a limited time!
IBM announces two new Federal Government-specific cloud data centres
IBM is making inroads into Federal Government projects and is trying to break into AWS dominated space.
IBM offers virtual server recovery service via SoftLayer
IBM has rolled out a disaster recovery service via its SoftLayer unit using which users can recover their workloads running on Linux, Windows, or IBM’s AIX “in a matter of minutes”. The…
Gartner: Global IT spending to increase by up to 3.2% to reach $3.8 trillion
Latest report predicts worldwide IT spending to surge by over 3 percent, accounting for more than $3.8 trillion in 2014 compared to last year’s $3.65 trillion. According to the report from Gartner…
Yahoo: Traffic moving between our data centres is fully encrypted
Yahoo has announced through a blog post that all the traffic between its data centres is now full encrypted, as a part of an ongoing project under which it intends to deploy…
Intel unveils 800Gbps MXC optical cables, connector
Intel has unveiled its new MXC optical cables and compatible connector based on company’s silicon photonics technology that combines optical networking with silicon components. The MXC cables and the connector are a…
IBM to splash over £730 million on data centres this year
IBM announced its plans of investing a whopping $1.2 billion (£730 million) to boost and expand its cloud footprint in the international market through a number of new data centres all across…
NSA secretly snooped on Yahoo, Google data centres claims new report
The National Security Agency (NSA) is secretly keeping an eye on Yahoo and Google’s data centers, claims Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The security agency’s project to intercept the communication and data…