For data centre managers, Shadow IT is a reality—it’s either there and you know it, or it’s there and you don’t. Shadow IT encompasses things like the AWS Machine Learning experiment happening over in marketing that no one cared to mention, and the collaboration app that the product design folks are using on their smartphones without letting anyone know. By Paul Mercina, VP of Innovation, Park Place Technologies.
Read MoreApplication innovation is at the heart of the digital economy. A new era of apps is redefining what data centers are and need to be capable of supporting. Because today, the data center is no longer a fixed place. It exists wherever data is created, processed and used. That is why Cisco is announcing a new architecture that extends the data center to everywhere that data lives and everywhere applications are deployed.
Read MoreSatellite communications innovator and space gateway Goonhilly Earth Station says that data centre industry veteran Chris Roberts has joined its executive team as Head of Data Centre and Cloud. Chris’s appointment comes as Goonhilly prepares to open a tier 3/4 data centre in Spring 2019, offering exceptional connectivity by linking global subsea cables with satellite communications and fibre.
Read MoreVMware and Dimension Data are bringing a world-class innovation partnership to accelerate business value for their customers in a secure fashion in the Hybrid IT world.
Read MoreChoosing platform Equinix in Istanbul enables organisations to accelerate growth through the power of interconnection. Equinix offers an interconnected data center framework in Istanbul for direct connection to hundreds of customers and partners
Read MoreEchelon Data Centres Limited, a new Irish company based in Dublin, is to create 1,100 jobs through the €1bn development of 89,000m² of data centres with a total capacity of more than 180MW. Echelon is to construct data centres of 44,000m² (477,000 sqft) in Clondalkin, Dublin, and 45,000m² (484,000 sqft) in Arklow, Co Wicklow, with respective capacities of up to 84MW and 100MW. The capacity available across the two wholly-owned facilities is the equivalent of approximately 34% of all...
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