#Accenture Cloud Platform Awarded United States Patent for Its [...]

📅 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 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 - Qwilt Announces Enhanced Cloud Capability for Its ‘Open Edge Service Provider CDN’ Solution - Qwilt (qwilt.com), a provider of ‘Open Edge Cloud' that supports applications such as Open Caching, 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, Self- Driving Cars and Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the launch of its enhanced Open Edge Service Provider CDN – an application within its line of Open Edge Cloud solutions.

Qwilt's Open Edge CDN, with an augmented suite of APIs, extends Qwilt's "expertise" in edge computing, open caching and web-scale content delivery with an "innovative", cloud-based service provider CDN offering built on the Apache Traffic Control (trafficcontrol.incubator.apache.org) open source project. This combination of cloud-based CDN operations and edge delivery would result in t

📅 Apr 11, 2018 - Robin Cloud Platform First and Only Container Solution Certified to Run Hortonworks Data Platform - Robin Cloud Platform, a solution delivered by Robin Systems – a Silicon Valley based company founded in 2013 that has raised more than $27 million in venture funding from leading investors, is the first and only platform that has been certified to run the Hortonworks (hortonworks.com) Data Platform (HDP) solution.

With a team that includes industry veterans from leading enterprise technology companies such as NetApp, Oracle, and Veritas, Robin Systems seeks to disrupt the $20 billion-plus virtualization market with its container-based compute and storage platform software.

Robin Cloud Platform is a container-based pure-software solution that sits between the application and the infrastruct

📅 Apr 11, 2018 - Alibaba Cloud Partners with E-Glober to Expand Its Wholesale Platform Into Turkey - Alibaba Cloud (alibabacloud.com), the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has announced a partnership Turkish business agent E-Glober to bring its cloud computing products and services to the Turkish market. E-Glober will operate as sole authorized agent and business partner of Alibaba Group's global wholesale platform Alibaba.com for Turkey.

The partnership that combines Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing capabilities and global infrastructure, and E-Glober's local connections and insights, would provide a compelling offering to meet the digitalization and international expansion needs of local companies.

Through the partnership, Turkish businesses of all sizes would get "easy-access" to A

📅 Apr 12, 2018 - Computacenter Partners with BlueData to Provide Big-Data-as-a-Service in German Market - Computacenter (computacenter.com) Germany has announced a partnership with BlueData (bluedata.com), a provider of Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS). The agreement will enable the IT infrastructure services provider to offer BlueData EPIC software to their enterprise IT customers in the German market.

"Enabling users through the efficient and secure provision of data on-demand means connecting them to meaningful information held in core systems and data center infrastructures, both on or off customers' premises and in the cloud," said Dr. Peter Meitz, lead consultant and solution architect for Big Data at Computacenter Germany. "BlueData is a powerful and innovative solution for Big-Data-as-a-Se