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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

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.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Device Security Management Security Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

Four in 10 (40%) CIOs have increased their company’s security budget compared to three years ago.

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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 Infrastructure Management Storage + Servers

CloudSigma is upgrading its public cloud storage offering to an all solid-state drive (SSD) solution, powered by SolidFire. Abandoning magnetic-based, hard-disk drive (HDD) storage altogether due to its inability to keep pace with the randomized, multi-tenant access of a public cloud, CloudSigma’s new, all-SSD offering enables companies to realize the scalability, flexibility and cost-savings advantages of a public cloud while ensuring the reliability and performance of their storage.

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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.

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Virtus Data Centres (“Virtus”) has signed a 15 year agreement with the Daisy Group plc; an AIM listed company.

Interxion bolsters presence in London with expansion of data centre campus

INTERXION HOLDING NV has opened LON3, its third data centre in London.

DBS Bank engages IBM’s Watson

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Why Databarracks chose Co2Balance for carbon offsetting

When Infrastructure as a Service company Databarracks wanted to go carbon neutral they looked at...

SanDisk invests in Cloud storage solutions provider

SanDisk Corporation says that its venture arm SanDisk Ventures, has invested in Panzura, a provider...

CLOUDZONE 2013 vor dem Start: Geballtes Cloud-Knowhow für die Praxis

Mobile Solutions und Datensicherheit sind vom 15. bis 16. Mai die Hauptthemen in der Messe Karlsruhe

Rackspace strengthens UK leadership team

New role designed to drive business growth and strengthen relationships with customers and partners...

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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

IT security challenges CIOs

VMTurbo builds momentum

CloudSigma introduces all-SSD storage for Public Cloud IaaS Platform

Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

Daisy chooses Virtus for new data hosting facility