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Samsung SDS building cloud data centre

December 27, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Samsung is building a new data centre in Chuncheon, South Korea, 50km from the border with North Kor...

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Oracle unveils next-gen cloud platform; clear focus on enterprise

December 27, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Oracle recently held OpenWorld where it unveiled its next-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure pla...

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Sify to open first Calcutta data centre

December 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports indicate India’s Sify Technologies has leased a 50k sqft building at the SLF IT Park...

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New Vienna data centre opened by Austrian telco

December 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Austrian telco A1 Telekom Austria opened a data centre in Vienna. ...

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Google Ireland to be responsible for Google user data in Europe

December 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Google designated its Irish subsidiary as the legal entity responsible for user data under GDPR. ...

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Heptio deal closes and costs VMware $550m

December 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

VMware closed its recently announced acquisition of Kubernetes specialist Heptio. ...

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iomart releases 1HFY19 results; organic and acquisition-led growth

December 17, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

iomart Group released its results for the six months ended September 30 2018, with restructuring act...

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Claranet releases FY18 results; strong M&A-led numbers, organic growth building

December 17, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

We had a chance to speak with UK-based Claranet about its FY18 results for the year ending June 30 2...

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UBS migrating to Microsoft data centres in Switzerland

December 17, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports indicate Swiss banking group UBS struck a deal worth hundreds of millions of Swiss fra...

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Green Mountain acquires land for further Norway expansion

December 16, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Green Mountain acquired 13k sqm of land adjacent to its existing DC2 Telemark-Rjukan data centre. ...

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Slack prepping for 2019 IPO

December 14, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports indicate Slack has hired Goldman Sachs to underwrite an IPO planned for next year. ...

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Colt DCS details plans for new Mumbai data centre

December 14, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) will begin building its first data centre in India early next year. ...

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