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2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report reveals tech strategies in era of data and AI

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:05:29 +0000

Benchling has launched its inaugural 2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report, which has shed light on the obstacles that biopharma encounter when striving to fully implement and embrace these technologies. The report surveyed 300 R&D and IT experts from biopharma companies large and small to do a first-ever investigation into biopharma’s use of an... Read more »

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Friction between finance and tech leaders prevents companies from controlling cloud spend

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:27:22 +0000

Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by... Read more »

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Aruba acquires two hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, Italy

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:15:04 +0000

Aruba, Italy’s largest cloud provider and specialist in data centre, web hosting, e-mail, PEC and domain registration services, has acquired two hydroelectric power plants in the province of Bergamo, near the Global Cloud Data Centre in Ponte San Pietro, with a total capacity of 2MW. The new hydropower plants – ‘Paladina’ and ‘Ponte Briolo’ –... Read more »

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Snowflake becomes available in UK on Microsoft Azure

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 10:46:47 +0000

Snowflake, a data cloud company, has announced Snowflake’s general availability on Microsoft Azure in the UK, driven by high customer demand for local data residency from both the private and public sector in the UK. Snowflake enables institutions across multiple industries to deploy data and analytical workloads to suit their business-critical needs. With true multi-cloud... Read more »

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ThousandEyes launches new EU Cloud Region to serve European customer growth

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:21:41 +0000

Cisco ThousandEyes has expanded its global presence with the launch of a new EU Cloud Region. Ready for operation immediately, the new EU Cloud Region, hosted on an AWS-based data centre in Frankfurt, Germany, will serve the company’s growing base of customers using ThousandEyes’ cloud and Internet intelligence technology in the European Union (EU) and... Read more »

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Modernising and managing multi-cloud systems

Jorge Gonzalez Moreno — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:44:45 +0000

In the past decade, IT professionals have divided between advocates of control and customisation in private clouds versus developers looking for the standardisation and flexibility of public clouds. A common perception was that the hyperscalers would host all the applications, and the local data centres and private clouds were going to have a residual role.... Read more »

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Imperial College and UAE institute partner for cloud security research

Fin Strathern — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:16:18 +0000

Imperial College London is partnering with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi to develop a new operating system (OS) designed with cloud security in mind. According to Professor Peter Pietzuch of the Imperial College Department of Computing, the devices and OS typically used to host cloud services in data centres today have outdated... Read more »

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Oracle joins race to digitise Africa with first data centre in Johannesburg

Fin Strathern — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:21:14 +0000

Oracle has opened a data centre in South Africa, joining the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in trying to tap into Africa’s growing demand for cloud services. The cloud infrastructure company will use the new facility to provide services across much of Africa, with the continent becoming Oracle’s 37th “cloud region”. According to Cherian Varghese,... Read more »

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Equinix makes first move into Africa with £237m MainOne acquisition

Fin Strathern — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:38:54 +0000

Data centre firm Equinix is set to acquire Nigerian connectivity provider MainOne for £237 million in the first quarter of 2022. Announced in December, the deal remains subject to regulatory approval before Equinix can fully incorporate MainOne’s 500 employees into its own network. The transaction marks the California-based firm’s first move into Africa as it... Read more »

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Pulsant adds Manchester to its roster of UK edge data centres

Fin Strathern — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:51:57 +0000

Pulsant, an edge data centre and hybrid cloud specialist, has acquired a Manchester data centre and its clients from M247 Limited. As a city with one of the fastest growing tech hubs in Europe, the acquisition facilitates Pulsant’s geographic expansion of its edge platform into England’s North West. It also marks Pulsant’s first acquisition as... Read more »

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