A cloud startup founded by a group of four ex-Cisco engineers has raised US$278 million to fund products that aim to help the data centres of customers like investment banks function more like those of cloud computing providers.
Lenovo has named its top partners at its partner awards event held yesterday in Auckland and hosted by former rugby union player Ian Jones.
Lower prices and latency plus access to cloud providers make colocation facilities an attractive option compared to building on-site data centres.
VMware has punched up its data centre network virtualisation capabilities by unveiling plans to buy Avi Networks for an undisclosed amount.
Datacom has relaunched its Christchurch data centre after a $9.7 million investment that has more than doubled the server rack space and upgraded its infrastructure and resiliency.
