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Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

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

Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides corporate colocation and private cloud services from Central London. The transaction adds £16m of revenues and significant scale to 6DG’s hosting portfolio. It also develops the Group’s presence in Europe’s largest data centre market, positioning 6DG as one of a small number of colocation providers with both Central London and outside M25 datacentres.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics Infrastructure Management Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

KPN joins CSC, BT, Internet Solutions, OpSource, LayeredTech, and other leading providers in utilizing VMTurbo to control and automate cloud operations.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Flash Management Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Rich media libraries are expanding exponentially, as media outlets and platforms proliferate.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics DC Facilities + Colo Infrastructure Infrastructure + Hardware Management Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.