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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
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Event |
| 4:10p |
Following Equinix’s Lead, Interxion Gets Into Encryption Key Management
Interxion has launched an encryption key management service called Key Guardian
• The European company is the latest colocation giant to introduce such a service
• As enterprises increasingly use multiple cloud providers, turning to colocation data centers as places where they can connect their networks to those providers, the colocation centers become a logical place to manage encryption keys for several clouds centrally | | 4:11p |
GPUs Increasingly Rule the Supercomputer World
NVIDIA GPUs now power five of the world’s seven fastest systems and 17 of the 20 most energy efficient systems identified by Top500.org, the non-profit that ranks supercomputers • The world's fastest supercomputer, the Department of Energy's Summit, utilizes 27,648 Volta Tensor Core GPUs • The rate of performance gains for GPUs far outpaces traditional CPUs | | 4:13p |
Making the Business Case for IT Security Investments
Ultimately, when a business and its IT department are disconnected on the security front, the organization is at a high risk of a data breach. | | 4:33p |
Amazon Has Plenty of Foes in Pentagon Cloud Deal
There are many more companies competing with Amazon for the big cloud computing contract Pentagon is looking to award than previously reported
• Bloomberg has obtained emails that indicate SAP, General Dynamics, Red Hat, VMware, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among at least nine companies coordinating opposition to the government's plan to award the deal to a single provider
• Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM are the anti-Amazon coalition's most active members | | 6:52p |
Equinix Lays Out Its Strategy for Global Dominance
Equinix executives laid out their strategy for global dominance in a recent Analyst Day presentation
• Two themes emerged from Analyst Day: a global interconnection fabric and a balance sheet that can be weaponized
• The next step for the company’s recently launched Cloud Exchange Fabric is to interconnect all 200 of its data centers across all three regions using the SDN platform
• CFO Keith Taylor expects the company to reach investment-grade rating over the next few years |
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