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Ashton Young

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Asian Stories

Written by Ashton

Hyperscale

JD Cloud and VSTECS to combine resources in effort to go global

They have signed a strategic agreement to combine their resources, including the construction and operation of data centers.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 7th Sep 2018

Global Stories

Written by Ashton

Hyperscale

Expert says data centres are investments with almost guaranteed profits

Data centres offer long-term contracts and recurring revenues like conventional property, but they come with the added bonus of rapid growth prospects.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Mon, 17th Sep 2018

Platform-as-a-Service

90% of organisations to demand IaaS & PaaS from same provider

Gartner predicts 90% of organisations will seek integrated IaaS and PaaS by 2022, driving substantial growth in the cloud services market.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Sat, 15th Sep 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Frankfurt to pinch London's crown as Europe's data centre king

The future is certainly looking rosy for the data centre market in not just the common cities like London and Frankfurt, but the whole of Europe.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 14th Sep 2018

Network Infrastructure

Open for business: 4,600km cable connecting AU & SG goes live

It's taken months of gruelling work and no shortage of investment, but the ASC is now live to present huge opportunities in APAC.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 14th Sep 2018

Microsoft

Digital Realty lures in two new senior exec job appointments

In another game of tech company musical chairs, Digital Realty has poached execs from Microsoft and Blue Shield to fill in its CIO and CISO roles.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 14th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Teraco: Digital transformation will be defined by the race to the edge

Edge computing is undoubtedly one of the buzzwords of choice within data centre circles at the moment – up there with AI, IoT, and gender imbalances.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 13th Sep 2018

Firewalls

ANZ market to benefit from HID Global's new access control solution

SMBs are 4x more likely to be victims of crime than homes are, a statistic HID Global is looking to tackle with its latest security solution.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Sep 2018

Private Cloud

Data centre infrastructure revenue at all-time high – hybrid cloud the driver

Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, and Cisco (among others) are all profiting from a burgeoning market that has no signs of slowing.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Charles Meyers takes the reigns at Equinix – effective immediately

Charles Meyers steps in as the new President and CEO of Equinix, succeeding interim CEO Peter Van Camp, to lead the company's next growth phase.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 13th Sep 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Exclusive: Marseille is THE interconnection market to target says Interxion MD

Marseille is Europe's fastest growing interconnection hub, driven by its location as the gateway between Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

Network Infrastructure

Flexential nearly doubles data center size with $32m expansion

Flexential has nearly doubled its Portland data centre size with a USD $32m expansion, enhancing global connectivity and cutting-edge IT infrastructure.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Colt DCS expanding London data centre & almost doubling power supply

The company says the investment is simply to meet unrelenting demand, with the bulk of the expanded halls already claimed.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

DevOps

Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why

Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Google continues renewable rampage with new wind farm investment

Google's goal with this Finland investment is to buy enough renewable energy to match the power consumed across its global operations.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 11th Sep 2018

Storage

Dell domination – Global enterprise storage revenue surges 21.3%

Rampant growth continues throughout the global enterprise storage market with Dell ahead of competitors HPE, NetApp, and IBM.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Sep 2018

Physical Security

Survey: Rising role of IT in physical security provides opportunities

In addition to taking care of cybersecurity, IT departments are having to adapt to spearhead issues set forth by the physical security dept.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Mon, 10th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

US public cloud startup moves into Interxion's Amsterdam data centre

The company is looking to utilise Interxion's facilities in Amsterdam to better serve its European customer base.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Sat, 8th Sep 2018

Network Infrastructure

Sunshine Coast connecting to Asia and the US with new submarine cable

A $35m contract has been signed for a submarine cable connecting Australia's Sunshine Coast to Asia and the United States.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 7th Sep 2018

Stories from Other Regions

Written by Ashton

KiwiNet

$38m later and KiwiNet is still going strong with new appointments

Since 2011 KiwiNet has been investing into new ideas and innovations in New Zealand with the aim to facilitate commercial success.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 7th Sep 2018