Azure named as preferred cloud provider for Johns Hopkins Medicine inHealth
Summary: Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) named Azure as the preferred cloud provider for its inHealth precision medicine initiative under a five-year agreement. Precision medicine is an approach that...
View ArticlePepsiCo selects Azure as preferred cloud provider
Summary: PepsiCo named Azure as its preferred cloud provider under a five-year agreement with Microsoft. PepsiCo will consolidate its data centre footprint and SAP applications and migrate them to...
View ArticleMicrosoft signs up Fonterra for New Zealand region
Summary: New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra is Microsoft’s first customer for its proposed New Zealand data centre region. Under a five-year agreement, Fonterra will migrate data and workloads,...
View ArticleCologix acquires vXchnge data centre in Minneapolis
Summary: Cologix acquired a vXchnge data centre in Minneapolis. The deal gives Cologix a 16k sqft data centre in the Minneapolis carrier hotel known as the 511 building at 511 11th Avenue South....
View ArticleMicrosoft self-build data centre in Johor, Malaysia nearly halfway complete
Summary: Malaysia’s Johor state government confirmed that Microsoft is developing a self-build data centre in the Kulai district and that it is currently 40% complete. A government official confirmed...
View ArticleMicrosoft buys more land in Northern Virginia
Summary: Media reports indicate Microsoft paid $92.7m for a 66-acre site in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia. Known as the Arcola Tech Park, the land is zoned for data centre use and has conditional...
View ArticleBeyond.pl plans significant expansion at Poland campus
Summary: Beyond.pl will significantly expand its data centre campus in Poznan, Poland, halfway between Warsaw and Berlin. The campus currently features two data centres with gross floor space of 12k...
View ArticleDOD re-affirms JEDI award to Microsoft, but work can’t begin while Amazon...
Summary: The US Department of Defense completed its re-evaluation, and re-affirmed the award, of the $10b JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft Azure. Microsoft still can’t begin working on it due to the...
View ArticleCognizant adds to Azure capabilities with 10th Magnitude buy
Summary: Cognizant acquired Chicago-based cloud consultancy and MSP 10th Magnitude. 10th Magnitude is focused exclusively on the Azure cloud platform. Cognizant recently acquired New Signature to...
View ArticleEdgeConneX hosting Azure ExpressRoute node in Phoenix, Arizona
Summary: EdgeConneX brought online an Azure ExpressRoute node in its Phoenix data centre. The node gives organizations private access to Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based services. The post...
View ArticleOracle Cloud to host Xactly’s SaaS platform
Summary: Xactly decided to shut down its worldwide colocation facilities – one at a time – and host its SaaS-based performance management software on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Xactly ran private...
View ArticleData Intensity rolls out Safe-Switch for those running on both Oracle,...
Summary: Kentucky-based MSP and application hoster Data Intensity rolled out a new service called Safe-Switch, a managed service for migrating and managing Oracle applications on the Azure cloud. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft, BP strike strategic partnership
Summary: Microsoft formed a strategic partnership with BP, which will continue to use Azure as well as Microsoft 365. BP will also supply renewable energy to help power Microsoft data centres in the...
View ArticleOracle, Walmart agree to take minority stake in TikTok Global; Oracle Cloud...
Summary: The TikTok/ByteDance saga has taken some strange turns as the deadline for a sale expired. Microsoft’s bid to buy TikTok outright (possibly in partnership with Walmart) was rejected by...
View ArticleHexaware Technologies honing in on Azure migrations
Summary: India-based IT consulting and integration provider Hexaware Technologies added managed Azure capabilities to its portfolio along with a specialization in data warehouse migration. It is...
View ArticleMicrosoft re-aligns Azure infrastructure in Germany; new AZs to come early 2021
Summary: Microsoft is changing its cloud infrastructure footprint in Germany to align with global operations. The company launched two sovereign regions in 2016 to make up the Microsoft Cloud...
View ArticleMicrosoft building in Arizona; adding more AZs in locations that don’t have them
Summary: Microsoft’s new West US 3 region will be based out of Arizona, where the company is building data centres at two separate locations. Construction is underway but it is not exactly clear when...
View ArticleAzure suffers outage in multiple regions
Summary: The Azure cloud platform suffered an outage in late September that is understood to have lasted about five hours. Services such as Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud infrastructure services were...
View ArticleMicrosoft building data centres for new Greece cloud region
Summary: Microsoft will invest up to $1b in Greece including building three new data centres in greater Athens to create a Microsoft cloud region in the country. It is not clear when they will open...
View ArticleMicrosoft plans more Iowa data centres, land banks in NoVa
Summary: Local media reports indicate Microsoft has bought land in both Iowa and Northern Virginia. Microsoft first landed in West Des Moines in 2008 and has two data centres with a third expected to...
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