Equinix facilitates hundreds of connections to Azure via Platform Equinix

Equinix, Inc. has experienced tremendous growth in the number of enterprise customers accessing Azure in Equinix’s International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data centers around the globe. As one of the first data center providers to deliver direct access to Microsoft’s cloud services on a global scale, Equinix has enabled enterprise customers to speed hybrid and multi-cloud deployments by directly connecting to Azure in Equinix data centers across five continents including North...

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Rackspace invests in CrowdStrike Series C funding round

Rackspace has made a significant investment in CrowdStrike’s $100 million Series C financing round. CrowdStrike provides the first true Software-as-a Service (SaaS) based next-generation endpoint protection platform and is a leader in the security space. The financing round, led by Google Capital, brings CrowdStrike’s total funding raised to $156 million.

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Rackspace unveils 'Fanatical Support' for Microsoft Azure

Rackspace has expanded its service offering for its Microsoft product portfolio with Fanatical Support for Microsoft® Azure. Rackspace will work with customers to help them speed their deployment of Azure, minimize costs and optimize performance. Rackspace engineers will provide application and infrastructure architecture guidance, making it easy for customers to succeed with Azure. The company will also offer hybrid cloud solutions that combine Rackspace Private Cloud powered by...

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Growth in Cloud deployments

According to the IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew 16% year over year to reach $1.01 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2015. The cloud-related share of total EMEA infrastructure expenditure on server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch grew 2 percentage points compared with the same period a year ago to reach 19%...

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Centrify launches new tier in channel partner program

Helping national system integrators and consulting partners to speed deployment of cloud-based applications.

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Cloud Industry Forum finds big uplift in cloud usage, though AI, blockchain and IoT adoption...
Nutanix has announced the findings of its second global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research...
One in four organisations are hindered by unexpected complications with cloud migrations.
Partnership enables Clustar Technology to integrate E8 Storage products into its private cloud and...
New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the huge cloud market keeps on growing by...
Cloudian replaces Scality-based solution, chosen ahead of IBM Cloud Object Storage,...
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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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