Cloudant raises $12 million in Series B funding

Cloudant has announced $12 million in series B funding from Devonshire Investors, the private equity firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments; Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud leader; and Toba Capital. The company also announced that current investors — Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation — purchased additional shares. The funding will be used to support Cloudant’s global expansion and grow the company’s support, service, and go-to-market...

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Cloud security turns off 92% of IT decision makers

The fear of security threats is preventing 92% of IT decision makers from adopting the cloud, according to an infographic released today by global web hosting company PEER 1 Hosting. The infographic, based on the results of a survey of 120 IT professionals, revealed a number of concerns when weighing up the cost of the cloud.

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Ark selected as G-Cloud iii Provider of Data Centres

Ark, one of the UK’s leading providers of data centres, has been chosen to provide their high security, low carbon solutions as part of the G-Cloud iii Framework, the latest iteration of G-Cloud.

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Former Colliers International, Digital Realty and Data4 Services execs join growing European team...
Cloud infrastructure services spending grew 35% to US$41.8 billion in the first quarter of 2021....
Most frontline IT professionals around the world give their companies failing or near failing...
Equinix has found there has been a significant year-on-year leap in UK companies planning to move...
Cloudability has made several announcements ushering in FinOps, a new operating model, born from...
O’Reilly has released the survey findings of its latest report, “Cloud Adoption in 2020,”...
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The most secure data centre in Scandinavia?

Hidden deep in a mountain, Green Mountain’s data centre is cooled by the cold waters of a Norwegian fjord. Working with nature, Green Mountain is saving energy and protecting the environment — leading the way to cutting data centre energy use by a third.

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