Bandwidth and network speeds exploding with Hyperscale deployments

Emulex Corporation has announced the results of a study of 1,623 European and US IT professionals, in which respondents provided insight into their enterprise data centre networking environments. The study, conducted in October 2014, found that 57 percent (%) of respondents have adopted hyperscale networking environments that require massive scalability in network resources. (tweet this) Of those respondents, more than half (51%) named increasing bandwidth as a major challenge in moving to...

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LeaseWeb selects Equinix for Silicon Valley data centre

LeaseWeb, one of the world’s largest hosting brands with more than 60,000 physical servers under management, is expanding its data center footprint to the United States West Coast. Its subsidiary, LeaseWeb USA Inc., will occupy a business suite inside Equinix Inc.’s (Nasdaq: EQIX) SV3 Silicon Valley facility in San Jose, Calif. to house its data center operations.

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AWS Direct Connect availability extended to eight Equinix data centres

Equinix, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect cloud service in Equinix’s Germany International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers. With AWS Direct Connect, companies across Europe can connect their customer-owned and managed infrastructure directly to AWS, establishing a private connection to the cloud that can reduce costs, increase performance, and deliver more consistency. The Equinix Frankfurt location brings the total number...

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Security considerations for private Cloud

Cybersecurity today can feel complex, especially if you are moving to or managing cloud security. But it doesn’t have to be. Hear from Rackspace Principal Architect, Luke Huckaba, as he explains some of the major concerns around Private Cloud and Security, and how Rackspace is helping to solve these issues both internally and for customers.

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