IBM has announced the opening of four more data centres under its SoftLayer brand. The announcement boosts IBM’s data centre presence to almost 60 data centres around the globe. Unlike recent announcement that have been US centric, three of these data centres are international. Two of the data centres are located in London, England and…
Cloud provider OVH has secured €400 million in its latest funding round. The announcement comes less than a year after OVH secured a €250 million from KKR and TowerBrook. The money will be used to help the company meet its ambitious target of $1 billion in revenue by 2021. It has already brought in a new…
Megaport (USA), Inc. has announced that it has opened up direct access to Oracle cloud services. The announcement means that customers can create a dedicated and private connection to Oracle. The connection is scalable and takes advantage of the Megaport SDN capabilities. Megaport has created an API connection with the Oracle Network cloud service FastConnect. This enables…
Global data centre giant Equinix has announced its latest expansion plan. It’s last major expansion phase saw it swallow most of the Verizon’s global data centre portfolio. Now it has announced it is to open five new International Business Exchanges (IBX) and expand 14 others. Once completed, this will take the total number of IBX…
Salesforce has announced it will open up a Sydney region before the end of 2017. The announcement came at the Salesforce World Tour in Sydney. It is the growth of customers in Australia that has made this decision worthwhile for Salesforce. Customers such as Transport NSW, Australia Post, ANZ Wealth have increased demand on the…
Equinix has announced the opening of its fifth data centre in Brazil. The US$69 million facility known as SP3 was first announced a year ago. It adds to the company’s existing data centres RJ1, RJ2 (in Rio de Janaeiro), SP1 and SP2 (Sao Paolo). This new data centre creates one of the densest concentrations of data centres in…
IT is under pressure to move out of the company data centre and into the cloud. The business sees it as the answer to many of today’s challenges and it often forms the platform on which Digital Transformation is built. The goal for the business is to become faster, more agile and innovative in order to…
OVH is delivering on its promises at last years OVH Summit in Paris and expanding its US data centre estate. In Paris, Octave Klaba said that the company would open a data centre on the West Coast. He told the audience one problem they faced was that potential sites in California were being bought for farming…
In his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld, Mark Hurd, CEO, Oracle gave eight predictions about the world of IT. His list covered things he expects to happen in the IT industry by 2025. The predictions are what is driving the Oracle direction as it readies itself to meet the demand forecast by these predictions. Were these predictions bold,…
UK Fast is to invest £2.3 million in its Manchester data centre estate. The money continues the company’s investment in the North West of England. This is a timely announcement as the UK government continues to push its agenda for a Northern Powerhouse to rival London. The announcement comes a week after UK Fast announced…