ServerCentral invests inTuring Group; building managed third party cloud
Summary: ServerCentral, a Chicago-based colocation and managed hosting provider, made an investment in cloud consultancy Turing Group. We had a chance to speak with management to get more details....
View ArticleClaranet plans Azure compliant data centre for Portugal
Summary: Claranet is working with Microsoft to set up an Azure-compliant data centre in Portugal, which could be operational by the end of the year. Claranet operates five data centres in Portugal,...
View ArticleMedia3 adds managed Azure to portfolio
Summary: Came across a hoster and service provider based in Pembroke, MA called Media3. Media3 is a Microsoft partner and rolled out a managed Azure service. Some of its other hosting services can also...
View ArticleWhole Foods part of Amazon now, but a Microsoft user
Summary: Amazon acquired grocery retailer Whole Foods for $13.7b. An interesting angle is that Whole Foods is an Office 365 user and deployed Azure’s Active Directory. Not something that will happen...
View ArticleUniserve acquires local MSP in Vancouver, Canada
Summary: Uniserve Communications in Vancouver, Canada, acquired a small local MSP called Xanity Cloud Solutions. Few details are available but Xanity was purchased for its Azure capabilities, which...
View ArticleIndia’s Sify Technologies reports 2016 annual results; shares cloud and data...
Summary: India’s Sify Technologies reported its FY2016 financial results with revenue from its data centre services business up 29% y/y to US$32m in 2016. Sify added 36 new data centre customers. Data...
View ArticleLenovo rolls out new infrastructure portfolio; Azure, service providers
Summary: Lenovo’s data centre group rolled out its newly designed infrastructure portfolio that features a re-branding of its server and infrastructure line. The ThinkSystem portfolio, encompassing...
View ArticleAtmosera enhancing managed Azure portfolio, seeing growth
Summary: Portland-based Atmosera enhanced its managed Azure cloud services and shared data points about its current growth trajectory. The enhancements are in user experience and in full integration of...
View ArticleOpus Interactive rolls out direct cloud access services
Summary: Oregon-based infrastructure hosting provider Opus Interactive is providing low latency direct access to cloud providers in the Portland market including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform....
View ArticleAtmosera adds new SKUs, IP, services for managed Azure; more transitions
Summary: Atmosera has a long history beginning in 1995 as a regional ISP. Now, it’s fine-tuned its strategy and moved from pureplay managed hosting and infrastructure to providing hybrid Azure...
View ArticleDatadog extends monitoring capabilities to Azure Storage
Summary: Datadog recently added monitoring capabilities for Azure Storage to its portfolio of Microsoft Azure services. Datadog will provide capacity metrics to allow users to understand the size of...
View ArticleNGD hosts TeleWare’s Azure-based call recording solution
Summary: UK integration communications provider TeleWare migrated its fixed line call recording solutions onto a new platform based on Microsoft Azure that is hosted in the Next Generation Data (NGD)...
View ArticleLogicworks adds Azure to managed third party cloud portfolio
Summary: Logicworks expanded its managed third party cloud portfolio with support for the Microsoft Azure cloud. With support for both AWS and Azure, Logicworks is now helping clients evaluate and...
View ArticleConsole launches automated direct cloud connectivity for enterprises
Summary: Console Connect recently released CloudNexus, which it claims is the world’s first automated cloud-to-cloud direct connection for enterprises. Console claims that secure private connections...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens new US government cloud regions to boost coverage
Summary: Microsoft opened two new Azure government cloud regions in the US, in Texas and Arizona, adding to the Iowa and Virginia regions launched last October as well as the DoD East and DoD Central...
View ArticleRackspace, Lightstream partner for managed Azure
Summary: Rackspace partnered up with a systems integrator called Lightstream to provide an end-to-end managed Azure service. Lightstream is focused on the strategy, consulting, on-boarding and...
View ArticleLogicworks partners with CloudHealth Technologies
Summary: New York-based Logicworks partnered with CloudHealth Technologies. CloudHealth has built a third party platform that can be deployed by both enterprises and service providers to evaluate and...
View ArticleMicrosoft rounds out Azure offering in UK
Summary: Microsoft launched a range of new Azure services in the UK, including Azure Container Service, Log Analytics, Logic Apps, Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Threat Detection and Managed Disks Storage...
View ArticleDocuSign to host in Canada on Azure cloud
Summary: DocuSign confirmed it would expand into Canada on the Azure cloud. It will run on data centres in Toronto and Quebec City. Unsurprisingly, the need to have sensitive contract information...
View ArticleNew Azure database migration service; moving on on-boarding tools, services
Summary: Microsoft launched a database migration service for customers to migrate Microsoft and third party SQL Server databases to Azure. It also introduced two new Azure database offerings to help...
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