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Converged infrastructure

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cloud demand fuels 18% rise in colocation M&A activity in first half of 2019

  Merger and acquisition activity in colocation market leaps as demand for cloud continues to reshape the enterprise and hyperscale datacentre landscape

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google increases presence and investments in Finland

  New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  University graduates to Rubrik backup appliance with Azure cloud

  University of Reading could only back up 20% of its data on an ageing tape library, so it modernised with a Rubrik appliance and Azure cloud storage in a cost-neutral project

• June 16, 2019 16 Jun'19

  5G to drive hybrid cloud adoption in ANZ

  5G networks will move computing to the edge, driving adoption of hybrid cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure, says Nutanix’s ANZ chief

• June 11, 2019 11 Jun'19

  Scale targets edge workloads with HE500 hyper-converged nodes

  Scale Computing adds hyper-converged infrastructure nodes to provide edge compute and storage that is fully compatible with its datacentre-scale HCI appliances

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

  Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  How Lexipol migrated 100 VMs over the wire from VMware to Nutanix

  Using VMotion, risk management firm Lexipol was able to copy its VMware storage pool in California onto Nutanix storage in its new Texas datacentre

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Nutanix takes aim at making multi-cloud simple

  Provider of hyper-converged technology, Nutanix, is breaking out of the datacentre and hybrid IT to enable workloads to move anywhere

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route

  The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Nutanix powers Manchester City Council’s IT

  Manchester City Council has made considerable savings since migrating off a traditional architecture in favour of a hyper-converged infrastructure from Nutanix

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Azure Stack HCI: Hyper-converged, but not as Azure as you’d think

  Microsoft has re-branded Windows Server Software Defined to put hyper-converged to the fore, but Azure Stack HCI isn’t totally in sync with the Azure Stack on-premise cloud platform