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📅 Apr 9, 2018 - BCC Research: Global #Cloud and #IoT Storage Market to Reach $27.3 Billion by 2022 - The global market for this industry was valued at $6.9 billion in 2016, and is forecasted to grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7% through 2022, when it will be worth an estimated $27.3 billion, according to a new report by BCC Research, ‘Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) Storage Technologies: Global Markets to 2022'.

Growing demand for increased storage capacity from new services such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing is driving new revenue for suppliers of storage technologies, according to the report published by BCC Research.

North America claims the largest share of the market, with an estimated 2022 value of $11.2 billion. Growth would be fastest in the A

📅 Apr 9, 2018 - #Xunlei Receives China #CDN License From Chinese Government - Xunlei Limited (Nasdaq:XNET), a cloud-based bandwidth acceleration technology company in China, has announced that its cloud computing subsidiary, Shenzhen Onething Technologies, has received a National Content Delivery Network (CDN) Business Operating License from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China.

Xunlei's Nebula CDN is a "new generation" of CDN built upon the company's proprietary distributed cloud computing technology. Xunlei intends to leverage redundant computing power and bandwidth shared by Internet users, creating an ecosystem that provides cloud computing resources to enterprises "at a lower cost than the average industry price l

📅 Apr 9, 2018 - DataCore Software Expands Executive Team, Appoints New CEO and CMO - DataCore Software (datacoresoftware.com), a provider with patented technology that eliminates storage bottlenecks with adaptive parallel I/O optimization while enabling "zero-downtime" synchronous mirroring, has announced the appointment of Dave Zabrowski as its chief executive officer (CEO) and Gerardo A. Dada as chief marketing officer (CMO).

DataCore claims to be an authority on real-time data. The company pioneered software-defined data center storage and is now bringing its technology to hyper-converged and workload optimization.

Dave Zabrowski would bring extensive cloud, infrastructure, analytics and go-to-market experience to DataCore. He most recently served as founder and CEO o

📅 Apr 10, 2018 - Former #EdgeConnex CCO, Clint Heiden, Joins #QTS as Chief Revenue Officer - Clint Heiden , former Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at EdgeConnex, has joined QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Mr. Heiden previously served at data center company EdgeConnex as Chief Commercial Officer for five years and helped sell and deliver "more than 80 megawatts" of critical capacity to customers.

In this new role at QTS, Clint Heiden will lead QTS' Hybrid Colocation Sales and Marketing organization. Mr. Heiden will report directly to QTS' Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chad Williams.

"Clint is a recognized leader in the data center industry who brings valuable experience and capability to our hybrid colocation vertical," said Chad Williams, Chairman, and

📅 Apr 10, 2018 - #Zayo Acquires Colocation Data Center in McLean, Virginia - Zayo Group, a global provider of data center solutions including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, as well as colocation and cloud infrastructure, has acquired a data center in McLean, Virginia. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The 62,000 square feet colocation facility is Zayo's second colocation data center in Northern Virginia and is located at 1764 Old Meadow Lane. Zayo has planned to upgrade the critical power at the site to three megawatts (MW) and enhance systems resiliency, security, audit certifications, and network connectivity.

The data center, which is on-net to Zayo fiber, will provide a "low-latency" colocation option for government agencies, web-scale c

📅 Apr 11, 2018 - #Accenture Cloud Platform Awarded United States Patent for Its Analytics-Based Multi-Cloud Tagging Capabilities - Accenture (accenture.com) has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the analytics-based multi-cloud tagging capabilities of their Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP). Introduced in 2013, ACP is a multi-cloud management platform that enables organizations to manage their enterprise public and private cloud resources centrally from one control plane.

Accenture Cloud Platform would allow enterprises to improve operations, maintain security, control cost and ensure governance of their growing cloud estate. The newly issued patent – U.S. Patent No. 9,853,913, for a ‘multi-cloud network proxy for the control and normalization of tagging data' – is part of Accenture