Monday, July 9th, 2018

Time	Event
5:04p	New Technologies Keep Data Centers Low-Rise Once you reach outside of the most populous areas of the country, there’s much greater possibility of placing multiple centers instead of monolithic structures. (Comment on this)
5:23p	Does Your Data Center Have Adequate Cyber Insurance? As enterprises get increasingly interconnected, cyber insurance for data centers is becoming not only a priority, it's becoming a best practice, experts have told Data Center Knowledge • Some of them even believe cyber insurance for data centers will be mandatory in the future • But cyber insurance is getting more and more expensive • Data center operators should have cyber insurance and follow security best practices, but they should be careful to choose policies that best fit their needs (Comment on this)
6:21p	Equinix Partners With Oman's Largest Internet Provider for Its Second Middle East Data Center Equinix and Oman's largest internet provider Omantel have created a joint venture to build a 18,600-square foot data center near Oman's capital Muscak • When completed, the colocation facility, Equinix's second in the Middle East, will house about 750 cabinets • Omantel has investments in 20 subsea cable systems and six landing stations in Oman, and the plan is to leverage access to intercontinental connectivity to drive business in the future data center (Comment on this)
7:53p	Alibaba in Talks With BT for Cloud Partnership in Europe Push Chinese internet giant Alibaba is discussing a potential cloud services partnership with BT Group, Britain's largest telecommunications company, Bloomberg reported • The agreement would be similar to the one Alibaba has in Germany with Vodafone, where the telco acts as a reseller for Alibaba's cloud services in Germany • Alibaba has pulled back its expansion in the US in response to president Donald Trump's America First agenda, Europe becoming its main focus for expansion outside China (Comment on this)

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