Azure Stack now shipping; raft of new Azure announcements
Summary: A raft of developments came out of the recent Microsoft Ignite conference. The most anticipated is that Azure Stack systems are now available to buy. There was a host of other Azure-related...
View ArticleExpressRoute now available in seven CoreSite markets
Summary: CoreSite continues expanding availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, which is now available in seven of its eight markets, the exception being Miami. CoreSite launched ExpressRoute in...
View ArticleMicrosoft attributes September Europe outage to faulty fire alarm
Summary: Microsoft confirmed that an Azure outage in late September was caused by a problem with the fire suppression system at its data centre in Ireland. ‘Inert fire suppression agent’ was released...
View ArticleRolls-Royce taps Google AI for object tracking at sea
Summary: Rolls-Royce will use Google’s Cloud Machine Learning Engine to help train its AI-based system for ships, which ships use to detect, identify and track objects at sea. It will use Google’s...
View ArticleBox using multiple cloud providers for new AI features
Summary: Storage and collaboration platform Box confirmed it would launch new AI tools to its Box Skills solution next year, adding to the image recognition functionality already available that is...
View ArticleCyrusOne invests $100m in China’s GDS, forms strategic partnership; sharing...
Summary: CyrusOne formed a new strategic partnership through a commercial agreement with China’s GDS Holdings. Both companies will work together to market and sell data centre capacity in both the US...
View ArticleBell Canada teams up with Akamai for delivery, security services
Summary: Bell Canada has partnered with Akamai to bring a broad range of security and content delivery services to its enterprise customers across Canada. Details: The offerings include DDoS...
View ArticleSymantec using Azure to reduce in-house data centre costs
Summary: Microsoft disclosed that security software company Symantec has been migrating workloads to Azure. The project is expected to take 18 months and end in March 2018. Details: Symantec has...
View ArticleHostway shares data points on managed third party cloud
Summary: Hostway shared two interesting data points about its managed Azure customer base. Almost all of the customers are net new additions to Hostway. They were not previously customers. But among...
View ArticleMicrosoft discloses Azure customers from financial services vertical
Summary: Microsoft revealed details of how some financial service customers are using Azure, and also disclosed that State Bank of India and Emirates NBD are Office 365 customers. UBS: Powering its...
View ArticleDocker adds IBM Cloud support for application migration
Summary: Docker’s Modernize Traditional Application (MTA) programme has been extended to IBM Cloud, having launched in April with Microsoft Azure. As its name implies, MTA is designed to help...
View ArticleDaisy discusses data centre consolidation and Azure for internal and customer...
Summary: We caught up with management at the UK’s Daisy Group to get more detail about its Azure public cloud services and internal use of Azure as it looks to consolidate its data centre footprint....
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines moves majority of infrastructure to Azure
Summary: Malaysia Airlines has migrated the majority of its infrastructure to Azure. Tata’s consulting arm helped with the move and 80% of the airline’s workloads are on Azure, while 20% stayed on...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches HPC in Azure with Cray
Summary: Microsoft is partnering with supercomputing company Cray to provide high performance computing (HPC) on Azure. Customers will be able to run dedicated Cray systems in Azure data centres for...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s compute usage on Azure up
Summary: Microsoft noted on its earnings call that Azure compute usage was up substantially. It more than doubled in the quarter. It is not clear if AWS and Azure have the same definition of usage. But...
View ArticleMicrosoft to significantly expand Azure capacity in China
Summary: Microsoft plans to triple its cloud capacity in China over the next six months via 21Vianet, its official legal entity in the country. In the three years since Azure launched in China, the...
View ArticleMicrosoft extends Texas data centre footprint
Summary: Media reports indicate Microsoft paid an undisclosed amount for a 202k sqft data centre on a 34 acre plot in San Antonio, Texas, from Chevron. Microsoft completed its first data centre in the...
View ArticleDXC rolls out managed Azure, Azure Stack services
Summary: DXC, formed out of the merger between CSC and HP’s enterprise services arm, recently rolled out a managed Azure and Azure Stack offering. The portfolio includes managed application services...
View ArticleMicrosoft strikes new wind power deal for Amsterdam data centre
Summary: Microsoft agreed to buy the entire output of a 180MW wind farm 60km north of Amsterdam to power its local data centre. The Windpark Wieringermeer initiative was begun a decade ago as a...
View ArticleHashiCorp extends relationship with Microsoft; adds more security capabilities
Summary: San Francisco-based HashiCorp has deepened it relationship with Microsoft for hybrid Azure environments and added new security features to its cloud automation platform. Terraform details:...
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