ORIGINALLY VALUED AT $3.4 MILLION The cloud giant Amazon, has just acquired an empty site in Loudoun County, Virginia, for the development of a new data center. Although a portion was used as a vegetative waste facility for mulch, the…
EXPANDING PUBLIC CLOUD CONNECTIVITY Cloud and edge service provider G-Core Labs, has opened a new point-of-presence (PoP) for its network infrastructure in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located in a Tier III data center, the new PoP promises access to dedicated servers…
100+ DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDERS ENROLLED To start the year, Singapore has today kicked-off its goods and services tax (GST) extension to now include overseas digital services such as, cloud storage, media subscription, and mobile apps. The GST extension implies that…
A NEW 100G ROUTE FOR DATA CENTERS Data center network provider Zayo Group, has just announced a new wavelength route, connecting Montreal, Quebec to Albany, New York. According to the company, the new 100G route will provide multiple terabits of…
JOIN FORCES ON VEHICLE CLOUD SOLUTIONS Microsoft and Ericsson have announced that they will be joining forces to build an improved Connected Vehicle Cloud solution for the auto industry. The collaboration will allow Ericsson’s Connected Vehicle Cloud to be built…
OVER 30 SITES IN VIEW Colorado based micro data center (MDC) provider EdgeMicro, has signed an agreement with Murphy Company to provide data center support services across all its U.S. locations. Based on the agreement, Murphy Company will through its…
EXPANDING CLOUD INTEROPERABILITY PARTNERSHIP The cloud giants, Microsoft and Oracle have officially expanded their cloud interoperability partnership to Canada, enabling cross-workload operations on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. As cloud enterprise customers in Canada prepare for the Christmas holidays, these…
THE COMPANY’S FIRST EUROPEAN FACILITY The telecommunications company; China Mobile International (CMI), has opened its newly built data center in the UK, which is the company’s first European facility. This new CMI data center is sited in Slough Trading Estate…
INTERXION AND PRIF TO INVEST MORE IN AFRICA Based in the Netherlands; European data center giant Interxion, has just entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data center operator. Interxion announced that it has…
ORACLE SECURES FEDRAMP CERTIFICATION Oracle has just announced the launch of three new government cloud data center regions in Ashburn, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois. The new cloud regions are coming after the company secured high-level compliance and security…
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