Vancis migrates first customer to Azure
Summary: Dutch MSP and cloud services Vancis recently started migrating its first customer – from the education sector – to Microsoft Azure. The process started with mapping out the existing IT...
View ArticleBespin Global supports six clouds
Summary: Bespin Global supports Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud and Tencent Cloud within its managed third party cloud portfolio. Bespin also supports AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is now...
View ArticleSystemsUp migrates UK law firm to Azure
Summary: iomart subsidiary SystemsUp worked with UK law firm Farrer & Co migrate its entire IT infrastructure to Azure. The company needed to upgrade its ageing IT infrastructure and...
View ArticleQTS launches managed Azure service
Summary: QTS Realty Trust partnered with Microsoft and rolled out a managed Azure service. The new offering provides tools to monitor environments, analyse usage, optimise costs and improve security,...
View ArticleMicrosoft expanding footprint in UK
Summary: Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud infrastructure footprint in the UK. First, it added additional availability zones in its original UK West location, increasing compute infrastructure...
View ArticleAkamai bolsters Microsoft Azure relationship
Summary: Akamai is deepening ties to Microsoft’s Azure services with integration with Azure Media Services. Azure Media Services builds on Azure cloud, adding capabilities for encoding, video...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches Azure Backup for SQL Server
Summary: Microsoft recently launched Azure Backup for SQL Server, targeted at customers moving SQL Server from on-premise physical or virtual environments to Azure VMs. Microsoft guarantees a...
View ArticleCogeco Peer 1 outlines expansion plans for Portsmouth (UK) data centre
Summary: We toured Cogeco Peer 1’s data centre in Portsmouth in southern England and sat down with UK management to discuss the facility and expansion opportunities. Background: Peer 1 grew from three...
View ArticleEquinix releases Azure Stack-aaS in APAC
Summary: Equinix rolled out Azure Stack-as-a-Service in APAC in collaboration with HPE. The service uses HPE GreenLake hardware (for PAYG pricing) running Microsoft Azure Stack and is hosted in...
View ArticleJust Eat outlines 100% public cloud strategy
Summary: We attended a couple of presentations given by Steven Armstrong, principal automation engineer at UK-based online food delivery company Just Eat. Armstrong outlined the company’s 100% public...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires land for two new Arizona campuses
Summary: Microsoft paid $37m for a 147 acre site in Goodyear, Arizona. The company already owns a sizeable chunk of land in the area, having quietly picked up a 279 acre plot 10 miles away for $48m...
View ArticleCologix Access Marketplace now available for direct connections to cloud
Summary: Cologix launched its Cologix Access Marketplace SDN connectivity platform, which uses Ciena’s technology to orchestrate and automate connections to cloud providers. End users now can...
View ArticleMicrosoft reveals two more Azure Government Secret regions; JEDI contract...
Summary: Microsoft put two new Azure Government Secret regions into private preview pending government accreditation. They are located 500 miles apart and have been designed specifically for the US...
View ArticleMicrosoft pushing into healthcare space with Walgreens deal; Azure, Office...
Summary: Microsoft recently signed a seven-year agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance for Azure, Office 365 and other services. The retailer will move most of its IT workloads to Azure and sign up...
View ArticleMicrosoft cloud services suffer outage
Summary: Microsoft’s cloud services experienced an outage last week. Cloud services such as Azure, Dynamics and Office 365 were down for just over an hour. The cause was related to DNS resolution...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases new storage solution for hybrid cloud
Summary: Microsoft revealed the Azure FXT Edge Filer, a caching appliance the company claims solves latency issues between Azure Blob (for storing large amounts of unstructured data) and on-premise...
View ArticleT-Systems pushes out managed Azure service
Summary: Germany’s Deutsche Telekom recently launched the managed Azure service that it is working on with Microsoft. T-Systems provided a reference customer: Zeullig Pharma Singapore. It migrated...
View ArticleDE-CIX Frankfurt launches Microsoft ExpressRoute connectivity
Summary: DE-CIX has become the first IX in Germany to offer direct connectivity to Microsoft ExpressRoute in Frankfurt, through its DE-CIX DirectCLOUD offering. Previously, customers in Germany could...
View ArticleGreen House Data boosts cloud consulting, DevOps chops with Deliveron...
Summary: Green House Data acquired Omaha, Nebraska-based Deliveron, a cloud consulting shop focused on the Azure platform. Founded in 2006, Deliveron is focused on software development, cloud...
View ArticleMicrosoft plans new Sweden data centres
Summary: Microsoft confirmed it will build data centres on land it acquired in Gävle and Sandviken, 200km north of Stockholm, late last year. No other details were made available but Microsoft...
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