Monthly Archives: January 2017

Amazon to Create 100,000 New Jobs in U.S. in Next 18 Months

The move could appease Trump, who tangled with Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos during the election campaign. Continue reading

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Data Suggests Brexit Failed to Knock Tech Investment in U.K.

Private equity and venture capital firms invested more than 6.7 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) in U.K.-based companies, up from 5.6 billion pounds in 2015. Continue reading

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Windstream’s Proposed SMB Discontinuance of DSL Service Proves Quite Unpopular

Windstream insisted that its customers wouldn’t suffer from the discontinuance because they were being given plenty of warning and they had “comparable options at comparable rates from other providers serving” the areas. Continue reading

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Rackspace’s New President Talks Customer Obsession, AWS Cloud, and Plans for 2017

A veteran with Rackspace, newly appointed president Jeff Cotten has a lot to say about the cloud and where it’s going. Continue reading

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Panzura Raises $32M to Make Cloud Storage Feel Like On-Prem NAS

Panzura, a nine-year-old Silicon Valley company whose technology makes it easier for companies to combine storage in their own data centers with enterprise cloud storage services by the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, has closed a $32 million funding round led by private-equity investor Matrix Partners. Continue reading

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