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Google’s Data Center Executive Joins Aligned Energy

COLEMAN ALSO WORKED WITH YAHOO Aligned Energy, a data center provider based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has just appointed Michael Coleman, as its Global Head of Design and Delivery. Prior to joining Aligned, Coleman served as Head of…

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ScaleMatrix Launches Its Enhanced Cloud Platform ScaleCloud

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…

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Digital Realty expands IBM Cloud in Australia

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…

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Advanced gets £2B Investment from BC Partners

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…

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EdgeConneX Opens Edge Data Center in Argentina

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…

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Oracle Opens New Cloud Region in Switzerland

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…

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AWS Acquires Israeli Storage Start-up E8

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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Keppel to Build New Data Center in Sydney, Australia

KEPPEL ACQUIRES LAND IN SYDNEY Singapore based Keppel Data Centers, has just acquired a 3,840 square meter (41,300 square foot) plot of land in Sydney, Australia, for the construction of its new data center. The land is located next to…

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eStruxture Acquires Shaw’s Calgary-1 Data Center

A QUEST FOR CLOUD LEADERSHIP Canadian provider of carrier and cloud-neutral data center solutions eStruxture, has signed an agreement to acquire Shaw Communications’ Calgary data center. Code named “Calgary-1”, the data center acquisition deal gives eStruxture all contractual relationships residing…

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AWS joins Microsoft in the Middle East Bahrain

AWS OPENS FIRST M.E. REGION IN BAHRAIN The cloud giant AWS (Amazon Web Services) has just opened its first Middle Eastern region in Bahrain, following rival Microsoft. About a month ago, Microsoft outran AWS and Google Cloud to open its…

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