Cloud & Hybrid Computing

2018 set to smash annual colocation take-up record 

Spurred on by record take-up for colocation in the major European FLAP markets of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris, both developers of data centres...

Pure Storage announces acquisition of StorReduce

Pure Storage, an all-flash storage specialist has announced the acquisition of privately-held, Sunnyvale, California based software company StorReduce, a cloud-first software-defined storage solution for...

GTT expands network to Cologix Columbus regional cloud hub

Cologix, a network and cloud neutral interconnection and data centre company, has announced that GTT Communications, a global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, has chosen COL3,...

EdgeConneX opens second data centre in Atlanta

Network edge data centre specialist EdgeConneX has brought online its second data centre in Atlanta, which it says was built to accommodate especially large...

Leaving the legacy: What can we learn from the hyperscalers?

Hyperscale data centres are on the rise. With 500 expected globally by 2020, these massive facilities are shaking up the ‘legacy era’ design practices...

Are healthcare organisations finally making a move to the cloud?

Sam Woodcock, director solutions architect EMEA and APAC at iland, explores whether the scare of WannaCry, coupled with the advantages of cloud security have convinced the...

Australian town swaps coal mining for solar powered cryptomining

Data centre firm DC Two has announced it is planning to build ‘the first behind the grid data centre in Australia, powered primarily from...

Are data centres sacrificing reliability for efficiency?

According to findings from the Uptime Institute’s eighth annual Data Centre Survey, data centre efficiency is the best it’s ever been, yet outages are...

e-shelter: The future of private clouds

Toan Nguyen, director business development & cloud platform at e-shelter, explores the future of public vs private cloud.  Cloud computing has...

India to become next restricted market for US cloud providers

In a draft report set to be released later this year, it is cited that India may become subject to stricter data laws, restricting...

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