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Top-12 Most Interesting Acquisitions in 2nd Half of 2018 #HJpicks
📅 - On a regular basis, the HostingJournalist.com editorial staff publishes a special selection of editorial pieces on a certain topic or trend. The HostingJournalist.com editor's picks are being marked as #HJPICKS on our social media channels. This week our editors provide you with a Top-12 list of the most interesting news items on the latest mergers and acquisitions within the global cloud, hosting and data center market.
UKFast Valued At £405M After Inflection Private Equity Acquires 30% Stake
December 2018 – UKFast, a fast-growing hosting provider from the UK with 350 employees across its Manchester campus, London sales office and data centers, has announced a 30% stake acquisition [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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Start with a SOC 2 Scoping & Readiness Assessment – Learning about SOC 2 – all the technical merits and other important considerations – begins by performing a comprehensive SOC 2 scoping & readiness assessment. Assess Scope and Ownership of Controls – Businesses using Amazon's AWS services will need to assess, determine, and co
Let's Encrypt helps to drive HTTPS adoption by offering a free, "easy to use," and globally available option for obtaining the certificates required to enable HTTPS. The legal entity behind the Let's Encrypt initiative is the Internet Security Research Group (abetterinternet.org), or ISRG.
The Let's Encrypt initiative took the first tls certificate into use in 2015. The aim is to make every website accessible via HTTPS by providing it free of charge and by ma
📅 - ServerLIFT Donates Server Handling Lift to University of Alaska - ServerLIFT (serverlift.com), a global provider of data center solutions, has donated a brand new server handling lift – an SL-500C ServerLIFT – to the University of Alaska (uaf.edu). The server handling lift is donated to the University of Alaska to improve safety and efficiency in the university's data center.
The University of Alaska operates one of the largest data centers in Alaska. This data center is a 12-thousand-square-foot facility located on the University of Alaska campus. Built in 1993, it houses 110+ racks and serves clients across the state, including the Alaska Satellite Facility, Alaska Earthquake Center, and Alaska Volcano Observatory along with multiple University of Alask
📅 - Cloudera, Hortonworks Complete $5.2 Billion Merger - A little more than three months ago, Cloudera (cloudera.com) and Hortonworks announced that they had an agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger of equals. Now the merger has been completed. The combined company will deliver and end-to-end data platform, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud, from the edge to AI.
"Today, we start an exciting new chapter for Cloudera as we become the leading enterprise data cloud provider," said Tom Reilly, chief executive officer of Cloudera. "This combined team and technology portfolio establish the new Cloudera as a clear market leader with the scale and resources to drive continued innovation and growth. We will provide cus
📅 - Cloud Provider LayerStack Expands Into the US - LayerStack, a cloud solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong, with multiple data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, has launched a data center in Los Angeles (LA-01). LA-01 marks LayerStack's first facility in the United States.
The new data center in Los Angels further expands the cloud provider's footprint around the world. Los Angeles will be LayerStack's 4th region globally, following Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan.
Los Angeles is a large market for cloud services. According to LayerStack, this market is predicted to feature significant growth over the coming years. Starting today, American-based businesses and global companies with customers in America can build their b
📅 - #Cybersecurity Company Illumio Unveils Its Supercluster Technology - Illumio (illumio.com), a cybersecurity company delivering micro-segmentation that works across any data center, public cloud, or hybrid cloud deployment on bare-metal, virtual machines, and containers, has announced full availability of its PCE Supercluster – designed for enterprise-scale real-time application dependency mapping and micro-segmentation deployments.
Today's applications require organizations to utilize both data center and cloud environments for their most critical assets and data. PCE Supercluster would enable IT to micro-segment without re-architecting the network or putting the onus on organizations to stitch together solutions that do not scale. Illumio's micro-segmentati
📅 - On a regular basis, the HostingJournalist.com editorial staff publishes a special selection of editorial pieces on a certain topic or trend. The HostingJournalist.com editor's picks are being marked as #HJPICKS on our social media channels. This week our editors provide you with a Top-12 list of the most interesting news items on the latest mergers and acquisitions within the global cloud, hosting and data center market.
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