GDIT GETS 10-YEAR DoD CONTRACT US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded its Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). This $7.6 billion contract is put up by US military to run its classified, secret…
LAUNCHES 2 REGIONS, 31 EDGEs, 14 MEET-MEs The cloud arm of the tech giant Microsoft, has just announced the opening of its new Switzerland cloud regions and the global addition of 31 new Azure edge sites. The new cloud datacenter…
AMAZON SEEM TO BE INTERESTED The government of Israel has taken a further step in its plans to develop a major regional cloud facility and this project is already attracting the world’s cloud giants. Under Israel’s Finance ministry, the Government…
VMWARE Q2 REVENUE ALSO AT $2.44B Cloud software giant VMware, has announced entering a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud-native platform provider Pivotal Software, and cloud-native security firm Carbon Black for approximately $5 billion. This announcement which was made alongside…
REDESIGNED TO SUPPORT COMPUTE-INTENSIVE WORKLOADS San Diego based colocation and cloud provider ScaleMatrix, has just announced the launch of its Enhanced ScaleCloud performance cloud platform. The new CPU-Based ScaleCloud is a redesigned implementation of the company’s high-performance cloud platform, which is…
IBM CLOUD DIRECT LINK DEDICATED HOSTING SERVICE Digital Realty has just added IBM Cloud Direct Link to its services at the 3.5-hectare data center campus in Sydney, Australia. This Digital Realty facility, which is on Templar Road, Erskine Park, will…
BC PARTNERS BUYS 50% STAKE UK-based software service provider Advanced, which was acquired in 2015 by Vista Equity Partners, has received a £2billion private equity investment from BC Partners. While Advanced will be using this fund to support its cloud…
THE COMPANY’S FIRST IN SOUTH AMERICA US-based data center provider EdgeConneX, has opened its latest edge data center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently offering 1MW of power capacity. The new EdgeConneX Argentina facility is the company’s first edge data center…
ORACLE OPENS FIFTH 2019 REGION Oracle has just announced the availability of its new cloud infrastructure region in Zurich, Switzerland. This facility will also complement the company’s London and Frankfurt regions. With the new region, Oracle seeks to support its…
E8 BUILDS DATA CENTER STORAGE WARES Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Israel-based storage technology startup E8 Storage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Following the acquisition, the team of 25 at E8 Storage, which provides flash storage for the…
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