Data centre market to undergo ‘dramatic change’ by end of 2016

Four disruptive factors will force dramatic changes in the data centre (DC) market by year-end 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism will occur with different intensities over different time frames. However, at least two of these factors will drive significant disruption within the next three years, and elements of all four will drive the opportunities and risks in the DC market during the...

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Nokia Networks and Red Hat extend collaboration to deliver OpenStack-powered telco cloud

Nokia Networks and Red Hat, Inc. have extended their collaboration to enable mobile operators to create a more efficient and flexible telco cloud infrastructure. The agreement bundles Nokia Networks’ carrier-grade virtualized core applications and cloud application management products with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

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Co-lo stepping stones to the cloud

Co-location can serve as an opportunity for organisations to test the waters with various vendors and outsourcing strategies. Nigel Offley of CentriLogic outlines the benefits and risks associated with co-location, and identifies how co-locating IT infrastructure can serve as a strong first step towards virtualisation, cloud, and fully managed hosting as part of a strategic IT outsourcing plan.

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With AWS adding 53,000 SKUs in the last two weeks, analysts predict the rise of cloud dealers with...
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iomart Group plc will be offering an expanded range of cloud and colocation hosting services to the...
Nutanix has added new capabilities to the Nutanix® Cloud Platform that make it easier for...
Telehouse North Two will be a major investment in a next generation mission-critical data centre,...
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