Expands network scale and deepens market presence in Europe.
July 9, 2019
GTT Communications, Inc. has announced a definitive purchase agreement to acquire KPN International, a division of KPN N.V. headquartered in Netherlands, for approximately €50 million in cash, on a cash and debt-free basis.
Melissa Chambal, technical manager, CNet North America, has been named as a member of the 7x24 Exchange mentoring team, joining the 7x24 Exchange Mentoring Program.
Not too long ago, an article on BitDefender caught my eye. Titled “California’s ban on weak default passwords isn’t going to fix IoT security,” it explained how default passwords are a problem with the Internet of Things (IoT), but they’re not the problem.
Christian Zipp will be responsible for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
July 2, 2019
Digital Realty has announced the appointment of Christian Zipp as vice president, sales, with responsibility for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Partnership offers single-tenant, low-latency and edge-dedicated servers, virtual private servers, and colocation services in over 10 EdgePod™ locations.
July 2, 2019
EdgePresence has been selected by DediPath, a provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions, for a multi-year partnership to provide bare metal colocation solutions within EdgePresence facilities.
It seems just like yesterday when Steve Carlini of Schneider Electric was telling me about the company’s products for edge data centers, a term I hadn’t heard of until then.
Clients are typically, and understandably, focused upon price when evaluating proposals for the purchase of electric power from a supplier other than the local electric utility. However, price is only one of several considerations that an edge data center (EDC) purchaser should consider.
In my last column, “Market Insanity,” I wrote about some of the challenges the industry is undergoing in the hyperscale space. Challenges include shortage of resources in both design/construction as well as in the operations sector.