📅 - Amazon's ship, Survey, set sail last Thursday on a mission to explore the Pacific Ocean floor. The objective is to find the best route for laying a fiber-optic cable system to link data centers in the United States with Australia and New Zealand.
This is the cloud giants first wade into the submarine cable system ocean. Amazon's main rivals Microsoft and Google both have already made waves by committing major investments to boost trans-oceanic network bandwidth.
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📅 - Rackspace has Sold its Cloud Hosting Business to Liquid Web - Rackspace, a managed cloud company, recently sold its cloud hosting business to Liquid Web, a web hosting and close service provider. The purchase by Liquid Web will give them all of Rackspace's cloud customers and the entire Cloud Sites Business Unit. The Rackspace staff and company will remain in San Antonio and a cost for the purchase has not been released yet.
Customers from Rackspace are expected to experience an easy transition as Liquid Web moves the business to their own infrastructure. The company also announced plans to invest further into solutions for Cloud Sites to better serve their new and existing customers.
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📅 - Facebook’s Open Rack gets a Makeover from Google - Facebook and Google data center racks share similar principles, such as the shared power source for many different servers in the rack. However, they are very different when it comes to the physical depth of the rack and the server input voltage.
Recently, Google joined Facebook on an Open Compute Project and they are working to build a standardized rack that will work for a variety of vendors. This led to Google unveiling the first design of their efforts for the Open Compute Project. It builds on the work Facebook has done and others have done for Open Rack 1.2 and is known as Open Rack 2.0.
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📅 - Web.com Picks CodeGuard for Website Backup Services - CodeGuard has announced on Monday that it has been chosen by Web.com to bring its suite of website backup services to its hosting customers. “At web.com, we're committed to our customers' online security. As a result, we are actively expanding the portfolio of high quality security products we offer our customers,” Dave Idle, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, for Web.com said. “As we searched for a website backup solution for our customer base, CodeGuard became the clear choice, due to their superior product offerings, ease-of-use, and focus on the customer.”
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Box also announced enhancements to its Box Accelerator technology that boosts global performance and promises two to six times faster upload times!
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📅 - Renewable Energy is Changing How Data Centers Operate - The huge push for renewable energy in the United States has changed the way data centers operate. With the ability for colocation services to be operated with clean energy, many companies have gained good publicity and lower energy costs. Google, alone, invests tens of millions of dollars into renewable energy through purchase contracts.
With this type of energy making more sense for businesses than ever before, it's helping fuel the next generation of colocation services. Most data centers have considered using sustainable energy and many are using it in some form already. This is expected to increase in the next five years, as well.
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📅 - Brexit Causing UK IT Departments to Scramble - Brexit will bring new changes and a survey done last month showed how IT firms across the globe were preparing for the changes. The survey really looked closely at the UK and found that many IT professionals are force to rethink future budgets and are scrambling to deal with the changes Brexit will bring.
Spiceworks conducted the survey and found that many things in the IT market are expected to get more confusing, while spending will be delayed. They also found that many organizations are worried about how it will affect data storage and how it will change the overall usage of cloud solutions.
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