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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure Infrastructure + Hardware Management Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Device Security Management Security Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

Four in 10 (40%) CIOs have increased their company’s security budget compared to three years ago.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics Infrastructure Management Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

KPN joins CSC, BT, Internet Solutions, OpSource, LayeredTech, and other leading providers in utilizing VMTurbo to control and automate cloud operations.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Flash Infrastructure Management Storage + Servers

CloudSigma is upgrading its public cloud storage offering to an all solid-state drive (SSD) solution, powered by SolidFire. Abandoning magnetic-based, hard-disk drive (HDD) storage altogether due to its inability to keep pace with the randomized, multi-tenant access of a public cloud, CloudSigma’s new, all-SSD offering enables companies to realize the scalability, flexibility and cost-savings advantages of a public cloud while ensuring the reliability and performance of their storage.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides corporate colocation and private cloud services from Central London. The transaction adds £16m of revenues and significant scale to 6DG’s hosting portfolio. It also develops the Group’s presence in Europe’s largest data centre market, positioning 6DG as one of a small number of colocation providers with both Central London and outside M25 datacentres.

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Virtus Data Centres (“Virtus”) has signed a 15 year agreement with the Daisy Group plc; an AIM listed company.

Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) launches data Centre in Canada

Additional hosting capacity provides most private and secure data in any jurisdiction.

DNB, Norway’s largest financial services institution entrusts HCL with running the bank’s IT operations

$400mn agreement sees HCL take prime responsibility for running infrastructure and application...

Node4 completes a management buy-out backed by LDC

Node4 provides a wide range of data centre and managed IT services, including colocation,...

HP und VMware automatisieren hybride Netzwerke Neue Appliance vereinheitlicht und vereinfacht Verwaltung physischer und virtueller Netzwerkressourcen

HP und VMware arbeiten zusammen an der branchenweit ersten Lösung für die einheitliche,...

Barracuda expands cloud offering on Windows Azure cloud platform

Barracuda provides complete application security and secure remote access to Windows Azure.

Virtus Data Centres becomes the first provider of colocation to the IBM Solutions Store

Virtus has joined the IBM Solutions Store, providing Colocation options to complete the stack of...

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Cloud + MS

MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

IT security challenges CIOs

VMTurbo builds momentum

CloudSigma introduces all-SSD storage for Public Cloud IaaS Platform

Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

Daisy chooses Virtus for new data hosting facility