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EMEA Server Shipments and Revenue Start Recovery After 11 Brutal Quarters: Gartner

Server shipments and revenues in the EMEA market both grew in Q2 2014 for the first time in years, led by HP, according to Gartner’s latest server market statistics, which were released Wednesday. Shipments increased by a modest 0.8 percent, but had been down for 11 consecutive quarters. Continue reading

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HP Partners with UnionRead to Bring OpenStack-based HP Helion Cloud Services to China

UnionRead, Beijing-based content distribution network and cloud hosting provider, has signed a deal with HP to be the first Chinese company to deploy HP’s OpenStack-based Helion cloud solutions. Continue reading

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IBM Opens SoftLayer Data Center in Toronto, Canada

IBM opened a SoftLayer data center in Toronto, Canada. This is the first SoftLayer facility in the country and the fifth of the planned fifteen data centers this year as part of a broad $1.2 billion investment program to expand the SoftLayer cloud capacity. Total capacity in Toronto is more than 15,000 physical servers. Continue reading

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SherWeb Enters IaaS Market with OrcsWeb Acquisition

On Tuesday, SherWeb announced that it has acquired Windows-based managed hosting provider ORCS Web for an undisclosed amount. The Charlotte, NC-based company will be the first acquisition for SherWeb in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service space. Continue reading

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Large Volume DDoS Attacks See Exceptional Growth in First Half of 2014: Arbor Networks

Large volume DDoS attacks increased by almost 350 percent from 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Arbor Networks’ DDoS Attack Trends Q2 2014 report. While average attack size and NTP use decreased compared to Q1, attack duration increased, and Arbor emphasizes that volume was the main theme in DDoS attacks for the first half of the year. Continue reading

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