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Cloud computing start-up UpCloud raises ˆ4 million from investors

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Infrastructure Platform

Funds from leading Nordic venture capital company Inventure will help Helsinki-based company accelerate international expansion.

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Frankfurt becomes the first data centre market to reach 30MW in a year

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Analysis conducted by global real estate advisor, CBRE reveals that Frankfurt has reached 30MW of colocation take-up in 2016, a figure no market has ever previously reached in a full-year, with still a quarter still to go.

Published in Cloud + MS Security Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

Barracuda has announced availability of the first next-generation firewall available in Microsoft Azure Germany (Azure Germany). With Azure Germany, Microsoft offers customers an option to limit data storage to German data centres, giving them additional choices of how and where their data is processed or stored. Barracuda NextGen Firewall is the first next-generation firewall to support Azure Germany, giving companies in Germany and the EU access to an advanced security solution...

Published in Cloud + MS Platform

Volo is an ecommerce specialist dedicated to transforming organisations’ sales by overcoming the complexity of multichannel selling and removing barriers to success. It unifies the entire online sales process and automates and simplifies key tasks from product listing to payment and dispatch, across a variety of channels including Amazon, Google, and eBay.

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CERN selects T-Systems and Huawei for European Hybrid Cloud

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Open Source OpenStack Platform

T-Systems has been awarded a frame contract for a joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP), led by CERN, that covers the design, prototyping and pilot phase of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud. T-Systems, supported by its technology partner Huawei, will develop a solution based on its Open Telekom Cloud public cloud service launched in March 2016 and which currently supports workloads from various leading enterprises, SMEs and public sector organisations.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

The decision taken by the Swedish legislator lowers the electricity tax rate for data centers in Sweden to 0.005 SEK or USD 0.00054 per kWh. This 97% tax cut will come into effect by January 1st, 2017 and will be applicable to both existing and new data centers exceeding 0.5 MW capacity.

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Cloud computing start-up UpCloud raises ˆ4 million from investors

Frankfurt becomes the first data centre market to reach 30MW in a year

Barracuda launches firewall for Microsoft Azure Germany

Volo drives growth and supports expansion with Office 365 and Claranet

CERN selects T-Systems and Huawei for European Hybrid Cloud

Swedish Parliament approves lowered tax rates for data centres

Companies left in the dark as two-thirds admit cloud apps being implemented without their knowledge

Have we reached cloud breaking point?

Global enterprise cloud computing market to reach $1.4 trillion in 2027

Accenture Cloud First launches

Rackspace Technology develops partnership agreement with HTCE’s AI Innovation Center

Councils' Cloud concerns

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