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New Fortnite video game delivers huge spike in traffic for Akamai

July 24, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Akamai disclosed that the launch of video game Fortnite Season 5 delivered a peak of 37Tbps across a...

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Oracle launches Blockchain Cloud service

July 24, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Oracle put its Blockchain Cloud service into general availability. ...

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VIRTUS opens new London campus with two data centres

July 24, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

VIRTUS Data Centres opened its new data centre campus at Stockley Park in west London. ...

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NextDC notes offering over subscribed

July 24, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

NextDC launched an offering for A$250m of new senior unsecured notes, that was quickly upped to A$30...

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Microsoft secures cloud contract with Walmart

July 23, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Walmart selected Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider under a five year agreement. ...

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Cologix readying for expansion to NoVa?

July 23, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports indicate the company behind plans to build a data centre on an Ashburn site currently ...

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NGD promotes COO to MD

July 20, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Next Generation Data (NGD) promoted Justin Jenkins to MD. ...

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vXchnge launches ExpressRoute in five data centres

July 20, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

vXchnge launched Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in five of its data centres. ...

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Alibaba expanding in Europe with new France deal; UK on the agenda

July 19, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

With the shifts in US foreign and domestic policy clouding Alibaba’s prospects in the US, it is pi...

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Amazon experiences embarrassing outage at start of Prime sale

July 19, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Amazon Prime Day got off to a rocky start with many customers unable to access the website when the ...

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Google cloud outage takes down Snapchat and others

July 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Google Cloud Platform experienced problems for a little under an hour on July 17. ...

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Equinix inks joint venture agreement for Oman data centre; subsea connectivity angle

July 18, 2018
Sacha Kavanagh

Equinix set up a 50:50 joint venture with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build an Equi...

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