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Box Brings Localized Cloud Storage to Australia, Canada

New Box Zones in Australia and Canada will support regional data storage. Continue reading

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Survey Ship for Amazon’s Transpacific Cable Sets Sail

Last Thursday, Survey, a vessel that will explore the best route for laying a fiber-optic cable system across the Pacific Ocean floor that will carry data between data centers in the US, Australia, and New Zealand, set sail. Continue reading

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Intel Buys AI Startup Nervana to Bolster Data Center Unit

Intel Corp., which makes chips that run more than 90 percent of the world’s servers, said it’s buying startup Nervana Systems to add software. Continue reading

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Google Gives Facebook’s Open Rack a 48V Makeover

Last week, Google unveiled the first design document that resulted from those efforts, which it plans to submit for review to the Open Compute Project, the open source data center and hardware design effort founded by Facebook several years ago. Continue reading

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4 Winners and 3 Losers in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IaaS

The winners in the public cloud space are innovating and adding new features rapidly, while the losers are falling further and further behind. Here’s a look at some of the highlights of the report. Continue reading

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