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Ashton Young

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Asian Stories

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Storage

Toshiba Memory and Western Digital open new facilities in Japan

The two companies hope to cultivate the 3D flash memory business with the new research and manufacturing facilities.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

Global Stories

Written by Ashton

Partner Programmes

More than half of UK organisations struggling to use data

Over half of UK firms struggle to utilise collected data, with 51% finding it hard to make informed decisions, reveals a Claranet report by Vanson Bourne.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 25th Sep 2018

Network Infrastructure

Hawaiki cable connecting the US and the Pacific gets turbo boost

The Hawaiki subsea cable, linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, and the US, will boost speed to 67 terabits per second with Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 25th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Data Exchange makes the Uptime Institute Tier Certification cut

Data Exchange's modular data centres earn Tier III certification from Uptime Institute, taking on the big box colocation leaders and eyeing Tier IV soon.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 25th Sep 2018

Data Analytics

Azure used to 'learn' when epilepsy patients will have a seizure

A new project is using data analytics and machine learning to predict when a patient will have a seizure and warn them in advance.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 25th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Equinix beware: Digital Realty throws down gauntlet with new $1.8b acquisition

Digital Realty challenges Equinix with a USD $1.8 billion acquisition of Brazil's Ascenty, aiming to dominate in South America's colocation market.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Mon, 24th Sep 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Stirling University opts with APT for data centre upgrade

After converging the campus' IT infrastructure from three data centres to two, the University of Stirling looked into a power upgrade.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Mon, 24th Sep 2018

Malware

Brewery breach: Not even beer is safe from ransomware

There were no pints enjoyed at this Scottish brewery this week as it fell victim to a crippling ransomware attack.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 22nd Sep 2018

Edge Computing

Intel and Alibaba Cloud look to the edge with new partnership

The two companies have released an aptly named 'Joint Edge Computing Platform' in the hopes to encourage the concept among enterprises.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 21st Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Study finds “huge variations” in Europe data centre prices

Data centre rack space rates among the more expensive nations are more than triple those at the other end of the scale.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 20th Sep 2018

Virtualisation

Alibaba Cloud and VMware team up to offer hybrid cloud solutions

Hybrid cloud deployments are certainly the flavour of the times at the moment and it's an area these two companies are investing in.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 20th Sep 2018

Network Infrastructure

Subsea cable linking SG and AU lands at Perth – just 6,800km to go

A number of heavyweights are behind the cable linking Australia to Southeast Asia, including Google, Singtel, Telstra, and AARNet.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

Storage

EMEA's external storage market humming along with double-digit growth

The external storage systems market in the region is in good stead, with some sectors doing better than others.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Datacentres Ireland shedding light on the nation's €5.7b industry

Participants of the event will be able to meet the professionals powering Ireland's data centre industry with invaluable opportunities for networking.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Facebook seals 20 year deal to supply Singapore data centre with solar power

After recently announcing its plans for the largest data centre Singapore has ever seen, Facebook has revealed its first renewable energy partner in Asia.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

Public Cloud

Orange reveals goal to become global player in multi-cloud services

Fresh off its acquisition of Basefarm, the France-based integrated comms provider is looking to make waves around the world in multi-cloud services.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 19th Sep 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Equinix: Interconnection between businesses to grow 10x the internet

There are a number of reasons for the meteoric growth of private connectivity between businesses, all of which Equinix has highlighted in its latest study.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 18th Sep 2018