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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
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Event |
| 12:26a |
EdgeConneX’s Top Sales Exec Heiden to Replace QTS COO Bennewitz (FB)
QTS Realty Trust, which is going through major restructuring, has hired Clint Heiden, who until recently led sales at EdgeConneX, the company known for its edge market-focused data center services model. But EdgeConneX has also done several hyper-scale cloud deals – it’s built out massive data centers for Microsoft in the US and Europe – and hyper-scale is the focus of QTS’s current restructuring effort. Heiden, who served as chief commercial officer at EdgeConneX since 2013, “helped sell and deliver more than 80 megawatts of critical capacity to customers,” QTS said in a statement. Named QTS’s chief revenue officer, he will replace Dan Bennewitz, COO, sales and marketing, who plans to retire this year. | | 12:53a |
New Azure Data Centers Aimed at Australia and New Zealand's Critical Sectors (FB)
Tom Keane, Microsoft's head of global infrastructure, said two new Azure regions serving Australia and New Zealand, first announced in August, are now open for business. These new "Australia Central" regions, both located in the vicinity of Australia's capital Canberra are in addition to existing Aussie-based regions in Sydney (Australia East) and Melbourne (Australia Southeast) But they aren't for everybody. Customers need to qualify. To do so, some aspect of the lifeblood of Australia must depend on the organization's work. The reason behind the restrictions is to make these regions something of a turnkey approach for organizations, including the Australian and New Zealand governments, that fall under heavy regulation for security and performance reasons. Along with foreign ownership, these issues have kept some industries from being able to effectively leverage public clouds both in Australia and across the globe. | | 12:59a |
Data Center Conference Producer CapRate Sues Competitor Bisnow (FB)
CapRate, a producer of data center industry conferences and other real estate-themed events, is suing one of its former employees and Bisnow, a competitor whom the former employee now works for, alleging that the employee has been using CapRate’s proprietary data to benefit Bisnow events. According to CapRate, top management of Bisnow (who deny the allegations) gave the employee, Adam Knobloch, the greenlight to use the data while fully aware that it may have been illegal and a breach of an agreement Knobloch had signed with CapRate. In a statement emailed to Data Center Knowledge, Bisnow representatives called CapRate’s allegations “baseless” and the lawsuit “without merit,” saying the plaintiff had “chosen litigation over competition.” | | 12:05p |
Wall Street’s Bull-vs-Bear QTS Tug of War
DCK Investor Edge: Analysts can’t seem to come to a consensus on QTS, following the company’s unexpected restructuring announcement. | | 5:04p |
IBM Says Brexit May Cost UK Lead in AI, Cybersecurity: Report
Companies express fears of skilled-worker shortages in comments to Home Office | | 5:06p |
2018 Multi-Cloud Strategy: From Niche to Norm in the Enterprise
The cloud has come a long way, and enterprises have all essentially decided it’s time to migrate their on-prem workloads to the cloud. | | 6:04p |
Rackspace and Switch Ink Hybrid Cloud Partnership
Offer customers a single channel for buying Rackspace services combined with Switch colo space, connectivity |
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