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📅 Aug 30, 2018 - InMotion Hosting Partners with JetPack Provider for Their #WordPress Hosting Solutions - U.S. web hosting company InMotion Hosting has announced a partnership with Automattic – the provider of WordPress toolkit Jetpack – for InMotion Hosting's Managed WordPress Hosting product line. Customers will automatically receive either Jetpack Personal or Jetpack Professional (at no extra cost, but depending on the hosting package being selected) when purchasing a Managed WordPress Hosting package from InMotion.

The inclusion of Jetpack would provide InMotion Hosting customers more tools to design, promote, and increase the security of their websites. Access to Jetpack is available to both new and existing InMotion Hosting customers immediately. Existing customers who aren't already ...

📅 Aug 30, 2018 - Cloud Optimization Company Spotinst Raises $35 Million - Spotinst (spotinst.com) has raised $35 million in new funding as part of a Series-B funding round led by Highland. All existing investors including Intel Capital, Vertex Ventures, and Leaders Fund have participated, to support further growth of Spotinst's AI-based cloud workload management platform, Elastigroup.

In March 2016, HostingJournalist.com already published an article on a funding round for this company. The Israeli startup has raised approximately $52 million since its launch. Spotinst is a machine learning-based IaaS platform that allows enterprises and startups to optimize their cloud computing deployments by automating the spot instances bid process. By allowing cloud ...

📅 Aug 30, 2018 - OVH-Founder Octave Klaba Appoints Michel Paulin as CEO of OVH Group - "I am delighted to work with Octave; everyone knows his vision, his entrepreneurial strength and his great humanity," said Michel Paulin (left), on the right: Octave Klaba.

Octave Klaba, CTO/CEO and founder of OVH Group, one of the world's largest cloud and web hosting companies – of French origin, has appointed Michel Paulin as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the OVH Group. Michel Paulin will lead the execution of OVH's "Smart Cloud" strategic plan, which aims to consolidate OVH's role as an "alternative" leader in cloud.

Michel Paulin has spent most of his career in the IT, telecoms and Internet industries. He was CEO of Neuf Cegetel, for which he led the IPO, Méditel (now Orange ...

📅 Aug 31, 2018 - Hybrid IT Data Center Solutions Company @Flexential Opens Charlotte-IX Peering Exchange - Flexential, a U.S. provider of hybrid IT data center solutions, has announced the opening of Charlotte-IX – a peering exchange in Charlotte, N.C. Through this Internet exchange, housed in Flexential‘s 62,000 square foot North Charlotte data center, companies can bypass Internet traffic to "securely" connect to Flexential's FlexAnywhere (flexential.com) network fabric.

The Charlotte-IX exchange was developed in partnership with Ninja-IX (ninja-ix.net), a not-for-profit peering exchange provider that operates exchanges in cities across the U.S. Flexential delivers peering fabric for the initiative, while Ninja-IX provides the switching infrastructure. Together, the technologies create a ...

📅 Sep 1, 2018 - #IBM Watson Partners With Tennis Players and Coaches To Enhance Game Strategy At 2018 US Open - In addition to delivering IBM (ibm.com) Cloud public and private cloud solutions at the US Open such as the provisioning of real-time scores, highlights, and stories from the tournament as well as IBM's weather data, IBM has announced that IBM Watson will now partner with tennis players and coaches to enhance their game strategy and better prepare for matches more efficiently.

IBM is a partner of the US Open tournament for more than 25 years already. This year, IBM and the USTA will integrate its AI Highlights technology into player performance as the tournament enters the next phase of its technology journey.

For the past year, IBM has been working with the USTA Player Development's ...

📅 Sep 1, 2018 - Cloud Storage Provider @Zadara Announces $25M Investment Round for Global Expansion - Zadara, a cloud storage provider delivering its products via public clouds, managed service providers (MSPs), data centers, colocation partners, and on-premises in customers' data centers, has signed a $25 million funding round led by IGP Capital with participation from existing investors.

This brings the total equity raised by Zadara to over $60 million. Zadara plans to use the investment primarily to accelerate growth, including expanding its worldwide sales, dev-ops and engineering teams as well as its service provider partner channel. In addition, the funds would help Zadara develop its service offering, which focuses on eliminating the technical, operational, and financial risks ...