New data from Synergy Research Group shows that 52 data center-oriented M&A deals closed in the first half of 2019, up 18% from the first half of 2018 and continuing a strong growth trend seen over the last four years.
Linode, the world’s largest independent open cloud provider, opened its newest data center in Mumbai, India. The data center expands the company’s global footprint to one of the fastest growing developer and technology regions in the world. The new data center is Linode’s tenth worldwide.
Vectra, today disclosed that cybercriminals’ most effective weapon in a ransomware attack is the network itself, which enables the malicious encryption of shared files on network servers, especially files stored in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud providers.
Green Mountain AS recently announced 3MW data center capacity at the DC2-Telemark site has gone live in readiness for customer occupation. Green Mountain deployed Schneider Electric’s prefabricated EcoStruxure Modular Data Center to reduce time to go to the market by 50%.
Byblos Bank recently announced the inauguration of its new Tier III data center and with this data center operational, Byblos Bank becomes the first and only Lebanese bank with an Uptime Institute Tier III certified constructed facility, thus leading the way in adopting the most advanced and secure data center technologies to serve its clients […]
Intel has signed an agreement to buy out Barefoot Networks, an emerging leader in Ethernet switch silicon and software for use in the data center, specializing in the programmability and flexibility necessary to meet the performance and ever-changing needs of the hyperscale cloud.
Equinix announced the expansion of footprint in Australia with the launch of their eighth data center in the country. The new data center named as SY5 will be build over an investment of US$160 million in Melbourne after the data center company spent almost US$10 million to expand its PE2 data center
NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox for value of approximately $6.9 billion. The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high performance computing (HPC).
Regional value added distributor, StarLink announced its distribution partnership with Schneider Electric to promote and sell the Schneider’s Cloud and Data Center solutions with aggressive demand generation and awareness programs, as well as on-the-ground sales and technical support
Oracle today announced the immediate availability of its new data centre in Abu Dhabi to offer public cloud applications services to customers in UAE and also across the region. The new data centre i Abu Dhabi will support the rapid adoption of Oracle Cloud in the country
