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📅 Nov 11, 2018 - Limestone Networks Extends US Bare-Metal Footprint to Los Angeles - "With a client base spanning the globe, it is a common request from our APAC clients to bring our first-rate hosting platform to the West Coast," said Preston Gosdin, VP of Limestone Networks.

Dallas-based bare-metal, cloud, and colocation service provider, Limestone Networks, has extended its data center footprint to Los Angeles. Their new LAX1 data center, housed in Equinix's LA4 facility in Los Angeles, California, expands Limestone Networks' network footprint beyond its established hubs in Dallas, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Technical specs of the Equinix LA4 facility housing Limestone's LAX1 data center include N+1 power, cooling redundancy, and ISO 2700, SAE16 SOC-1 Type II, ...

📅 Nov 10, 2018 - Data Centers Added Across Europe and US to Expand Rollout of #VMware Cloud on AWS #VMworld - At VMworld 2018 Europe, VMware has announced the expansion of its VMware Cloud on AWS (vmware.com) hybrid cloud service in Europe and the United States, with expected additional new regions forthcoming in AWS EU (Ireland), AWS West (N. California) and AWS East (Ohio) in Q4 2018.

VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware's software-defined data center to the AWS cloud. Based on VMware Cloud Foundation, this hybrid cloud service would deliver consistent infrastructure and consistent operations from the data center to the cloud, enabling customers to "seamlessly" migrate to the cloud, scale on demand and deliver on next generation application strategies.

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📅 Nov 10, 2018 - AMD Announces 7nm Data Center GPUs for AI, Cloud and HPC - AMD has announced the launch of its AMD Radeon Instinct (theinquirer.net) MI60 and MI50 accelerators "with supercharged compute performance, high-speed connectivity, fast memory bandwidth and updated ROCm open software platform. The 7nm data center GPUs are designed to power the most demanding deep learning, HPC (amd.com), cloud and rendering applications.

The AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50 accelerators feature flexible mixed-precision capabilities, powered by high-performance compute units that expand the types of workloads these accelerators can address, including a range of HPC and deep learning applications. The new AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50 accelerators were designed to ...

📅 Nov 12, 2018 - SHA1 vs SHA2 vs SHA256 – What’s the difference? - One of the most common topics that we field questions on is the Secure Hash Algorithm, sometimes known as SHA1, SHA2, SHA256. Obviously, the different numbers at the end mean something, but there are also misperceptions about what they’re used for, what hashing is and how it all plays into PKI and TLS.

Let’s start with some basic concepts about hashing and how it interacts with other functions of TLS.

What is a hashing algorithm?
Hashing is an algorithmic function that maps data of any size to a fixed length output. Sometimes people call this one-way encryption but that’s not completely accurate. When you hash something, it creates a hash value, which is the fixed length output we just ...

📅 Nov 12, 2018 - Schneider Electric Opens New Plant to Accommodate Data Center Growth - "We're confident this continued investment in El Paso will benefit the demands of the market for years to come." said Ted Klee, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain, North America, Schneider Electric (schneider-electric.us).

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has inaugurated a new plant in El Paso, Texas. The new plant will increase Schneider Electric's production capacity to accommodate "significant growth in the data center market" for which the company provides integrated hardware and software solutions.

Named El Paso 3, the new plant will employ the latest techniques in supply chain methodology for ...

📅 Nov 13, 2018 - Coronet’s Data Breach Protection Platform Integrated With Dropbox - Coronet (coro.net), a platform using AI to detect and mitigate threats, has entered into a partnership with Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX) – the global cloud-based collaboration platform. Coronet will complement Dropbox's native security features through the integration of its data breach protection platform, which detects and automatically blocks suspicious behavior.

"Companies face unprecedented cyber risk from adversaries attempting to access and exploit the confidential and business-critical information stored in the cloud," said Guy Moskowitz, co-founder and CEO of Coronet. "Dropbox has always taken its role in protecting users very seriously, and today's announcement underscores the ...