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Report: Aliyun Suffers 12-Hour Data Center Outage in Hong Kong

Aliyun, the cloud services arm of Chinese web giant Alibaba, saw its Hong Kong data center go down for about 12 hours earlier this week, Caixin Online reported. Continue reading

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IO Launches UK Data Center With Goldman Sachs as Customer

IO has officially launched a data center in Slough, just outside of London, the company announced Tuesday. This is the Phoenix-based colocation provider’s second data center outside the US and its first UK data center. Continue reading

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What to Know Before You Buy New Hardware

More options are always better, right? Not always. With the emergence of new server vendors, it can be difficult for companies to know what types of IT hardware options are a fit for their business. While it is impossible to ignore the factor of price when choosing hardware for your… Continue reading

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ViaWest Boosts Security and Compliance With AppliedTrust Acquisition

The data center and service provider space continues to see a flurry of merger and acquisition activity. ViaWest has acquired AppliedTrust, a Boulder, Colorado-based security, consulting, and infrastructure services company. Continue reading

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Report: $30B Worth of Idle Servers Sit in Data Centers

Working in partnership with Stanford University and TSO Logic, a provider of data center analytics tools, IT consulting firm Anthesis Group released a report this week that suggests there are 10 million physical servers deployed inside data centers around the world that are currently not actually being used. Continue reading

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