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📅 Jun 26, 2018 - Microsoft Azure Marketplace Adds Archive360 FastCollect - Archive360®, the world's leader in intelligent information management that drives down the cost, risk, and uncertainty of digital transformation to the cloud, today announced its FastCollect data migration solution has been added to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

The Microsoft Azure Marketplace describes FastCollect from Archive360 as "a powerful data onboarding platform that is based on a legally compliant data validation engine. Onboard 80+ data types to Azure at high speed while maintaining 100% data fidelity and chain of custody. Meets all required compliance regulations."

"To be included in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is indeed a seal of approval for FastCollect of which we ...

📅 Jun 25, 2018 - Smartdc Reopens Its Colocation Data Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Smartdc, a colocation data center provider from the Netherlands with data centers located in Rotterdam and Heerlen, has refurbished and expanded its colocation data center in Rotterdam. The new data center now offers 3,500 square meters of colocation space in the former Van Nelle Factory building, a former distribution center of this Dutch coffee manufacturer that's on the world heritage list of UNESCO.

Part of the Performance Group which also includes managed hosting provider i3D.net, a company with global operations and offices in Rotterdam and Los Angeles specializing in game hosting, Smartdc's management saw the need for a modernization of its Rotterdam-based colocation data center. ...

📅 Jun 25, 2018 - The Lesson of the GitHub DDoS Attack: Why Your Web Host Matters - Adam Stern

Author: Adam Stern
, founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based hosting provider Infinitely Virtual.

Surviving a cyberattack isn't like weathering a Cat 5 hurricane or coming through a 7.0 earthquake unscathed. Granting that natural disasters too often have horrendous consequences, there's also a "right place, right time" element to making it through. Cyber-disasters – which can be every bit as calamitous in their own way as acts of nature – don't typically bend to the element of chance. If you come out the other side intact, it's probably no accident. It is, instead, the result of specific choices, tools, policies and practices that can be codified and emulated – and that need to ...

📅 Jun 27, 2018 - Compass Datacenters’ BitBox Platform Selected by #EdgeMicro For Edge Data Center Management - EdgeMicro (edgemicro.com), a company launched in 2017, operates in the "edge" colocation space. EdgeMicro has now selected Compass Datacenters (compassdatacenters.com)‘ BitBox BMS Platform for edge data center management.

EdgeMicro is deploying its infrastructure in an initial rollout of 30 cities, with aggressive plans to scale to hundreds of sites in North America and a roadmap for thousands of global deployments. Compass' BitBox platform (http://www.bitboxusa.com) enables companies to monitor and manage distributed IT infrastructure through a unified system.

"We looked at a number of software platforms, and BitBox was the clear choice," said Loren Zweig, VP Operations for EdgeMicro. "It was ...

📅 Jun 27, 2018 - Delta Ultron DPM Series UPS Systems for Large U.S. Data Centers Now Available - Delta (http://www.deltaww.com), a global provider of power and thermal management solutions, has announced the availability of its Ultron DPM series uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems for the U.S. market, for large data centers and mid- to large-scale "mission critical" applications.

Delta's Ultron DPM series covers the power ratings of 500/750/1,000/1,250kVA/kW and is built for performance and reliability. It also has a "streamlined" UPS footprint to minimize gray space requirement and maximize revenue-producing white space.

Built-in proactive algorithms anticipate services and alert the user to maintenance that might be required/needed for the different sub-systems (i.e. batteries, fans, ...

📅 Jun 28, 2018 - Silicon Valley-based Data Center Solution Company ITRenew Acquires France-based Splitted-Desktop Systems (SDS) - ITRenew (http://www.itrenew.com), a company headquartered in Silicon Valley that supports the data erasure and data center decommissioning needs of some of the most large-scale, data-rich, privacy-focused organizations in the world, has acquired Splitted-Desktop Systems SAS ("SDS"), a data center solution design and engineering firm focused on Open Hardware compute and storage systems based in France.

The technology portfolio created by the combination would provide a unique set of solutions for some of the largest and most complex data center environments in the world. The acquisition includes SDS's U.S. subsidiary, Horizon Computing Solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not ...