Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

Time	Event
1:10a	Digital Realty Buying Brazilian Data Center Firm Ascenty for $1.8B Digital Realty Trust has agreed to acquire Brazilian data center operator Ascenty for $1.8 billion • Most of Ascenty’s customer base consists of global hyperscale cloud platforms • The deal is yet another move by Digital to dominate the hyperscale data center market • The San Francisco-based REIT partnered with an infrastructure investor on the deal, planning a joint venture that will own Ascenty (Comment on this)
3:41p	Why Entrusting Security to a Startup May Be Worth the Risk They may not have the scale or the reputation of big vendors, but security startups are often better positioned to meet your specific needs. (Comment on this)
3:59p	Walmart, Sam's Club Start Mandating Suppliers Use IBM Blockchain “It’s becoming a business requirement, it’s a part of our supplier agreements.” (Comment on this)
10:10p	Azure Data Box for Large Data Migrations Is GA, with a 'Heavy' Version Coming First announced last year, Azure Data Box is an appliance for physically moving up to 100TB to Microsoft's cloud • Microsoft said that Data Box Heavy, with a capacity of 100PB, is on the way • Both AWS and GCP already offer appliances for physically migrating data to their clouds (Comment on this)
10:10p	Microsoft's Box for Shipping Lots of Data Into the Cloud Now in GA Microsoft has launched the Azure Data Box, an appliance for physically moving up to 100TB into its cloud, into general availability • Data Box Heavy, a 100 Petabyte version of the appliance, is also on the way, the company said • Both Amazon and Google already offer appliances for physically migrating data to their clouds (Comment on this)

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