Equinix boosts balance sheet
Equinix has announced a proposed $1 billion public offering of senior notes. The money is intended to pay off existing debt and create a war chest for further acquisition.
It will be...
Xero and Paymark eliminate paper receipts
Xero have teamed up with Paymark in New Zealand to offer New Zealand business the opportunity to eliminate paper receipts. The Paymark EFTPOS business processes more than 75% of the electronic...
Xero hits two dozen
Xero has announced in a blog by Mark Pinard, Director of Product Marketing & Strategy, Global Payroll, Xero that it has now extended support for Xero Payroll to Ohio and Arizona. Enterprise...
Is Disaster recovery becoming a commodity?
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has chosen CenturyLink Inc to provide its disaster recovery services for the next year. The contract is for a single year but...
Fund to improve Internet access
Microsoft has announced a new fund designed to improve access to affordable Internet in underserved markets.
The fund will offer cash, technology and mentoring to help companies scale solutions that close the...
WANdisco compares the market
WANdisco has announced a deal with price comparison website Compare The Market for WANdisco Fusion. The product will be installed across all of Compare The Market's data centres providing a clustered...
CenturyLink brings tools to open source
CenturyLink has contributed the source code of three of its tools to the open source community. The three projects are Chef provisioning driver for vSphere, Lorry.io and ImageLayers.
The Chef provisioning driver...
Enhancing Supply Chain Planning
Plex has announced the release of three new modules to add to its advanced planning and scheduling portfolio. This will strengthen its cloud-based manufacturing ERP solution. It allows manufacturers to improve the...
FreshBooks releases Android Card reader
FreshBooks has announced the release of a Card Reader for Android. The announcement follows on from that made in February when they launched the iOS version.
The Android version appears to have...
Has VMworld come too early for HP?
VMworld is one of the few conferences that still commands a huge audience. HP has made several announcements that should interest many of the people there. They include the extension of...