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AWS Local Zone expanding footprint, shares use cases and customer wins

November 4, 2021
Philbert Shih

AWS brought online Local Zone nodes in Las Vegas, metro New York and metro Portland. ...

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eStruxture to build second data centre in Calgary; hyperscale appears headed to western Canada

November 4, 2021
Philbert Shih

Canadian data centre operator eStruxture opened a second data centre in the Calgary market after ent...

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AWS on track to soon bring cloud region in Jakarta online

November 4, 2021
Philbert Shih

AWS recently confirmed that the cloud region being built in Jakarta, Indonesia is on schedule to be ...

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Etisalat Group, G42, Khazna Data Centers merge, form JV under Khazna banner

November 3, 2021
Philbert Shih

UAE-based telco Etisalat Group and G42, a Dubai-based AI and cloud computing firm, formed a JV and w...

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1547 Realty, Harrison Street acquires data centre portfolio from service providers

November 3, 2021
Philbert Shih

1547 Critical Systems Realty and Harrison Street acquired four data centres in Chicago, Orangeburg, ...

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Google reports 3Q21 results; cloud tracking forward despite downtick in pace of growth

November 3, 2021
Philbert Shih

Google reported its 3Q21 results and included numbers for the Google Cloud arm, which saw growth fal...

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Recovery Point Systems acquires Geminare; adds resiliency management platform

November 2, 2021
Philbert Shih

Recovery Point Systems acquired Geminare, a Toronto-based provider of data protection, backup and DR...

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Amazon reports 3Q21 results; more AWS cloud acceleration

November 1, 2021
Philbert Shih

Amazon reported its 3Q21 results, which revealed more revenue growth acceleration for the AWS cloud ...

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Gaming platform Roblox suffers three-day outage caused by bug, scaling issues

November 1, 2021
Philbert Shih

Popular gaming platform Roblox suffered a severe outage that lasted three days starting on October 2...

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Cardknox taps Logicworks for management of AWS

November 1, 2021
Philbert Shih

Payment gateway platform Cardknox chose Logicworks to help it with the infrastructure it now runs on...

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M&A, MSP, earnings, public cloud, JV, APAC, expansions

November 1, 2021
Philbert Shih

The past week saw more M&A activity, the kick off of earnings season, global data centre expansi...

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Equinix Metal adds to support for Kubernetes vendors

October 29, 2021
Philbert Shih

Equinix expanded the number of Kubernetes vendors it supports on the Equinix Metal infrastructure se...

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