Second Amazon outage in two weeks: Friday 13th unlucky for some

Amazon Web Services encountered a bit of bad luck Friday the thirteenth when the company experienced outages in its US East-1 Region early that morning, leading to increased unavailability rates…

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East Africa opens monster datacentre

African fibre network operator and subsidiary of Econet Wireless, Liquid Telecom, this week opened a carrier neutral datacentre in Nairobi. The East Africa Data Centre offers secure and reliable space…

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AT&T teams with Microsoft to provide cloud solution to enterprises

US operator AT&T has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a cloud solution allowing enterprise customers to connect to Microsoft’s cloud platform using a private network. The solution will use cloud…

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NTT Com to double UK datacentre footprint

NTT Com, the ICT-focused wing of NTT Corp. plans to build a new UK datacentre that according to the company will double the UK’s server room area. Gyron Internet Limited,…

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Rogers Communications acquires Pivot, Granite Networks to strengthen cloud portfolio

Canadian wireless and fixed line Rogers Communications made another big push into the cloud and hosting services market this week, acquiring Pivot Data Centres for $155m and Granite Networks for…

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Cloud requires a datacentre revolution open source can deliver, says Rackspace VP

Interoperability in the cloud is something most vendors talk about and all enterprises desire, but achieving the goal of large, scalable, interoperable clouds will require a revolution in the datacentre.…

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Grand Theft Auto V may see network issues add to server woes

Rockstar Games, developer of the popular action game Grand Theft Auto said the launch of the online version of the newest addition to the franchise, Grand Theft Auto V (GTA…

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Open Compute Project cuts failure rates by factor of three

Headed by Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure Frank Frankofvky, the Open Compute Project was launched two years ago in a bid to integrate open source principles into the design of…

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IBM, Market Creations ink deal with Geraldton for Austrialian cloud data centre

IBM and Market Creations, an Australian-based systems integrator have inked a deal with the City of Greater Geraldton, Australia, to construct an energy efficient cloud-enabled datacentre. IBM offered consulting services…

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Ken Brill, father of the modern data centre, passes away

Kenneth G. Brill, known to many as the father of the modern datacentre, passed away on Tuesday. He was 69 years old. Brill, who was an electrical engineer by trade,…

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