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SDxCentral | March 14, 2019

Verizon this week announced the early phases of its standards-based mobile 5G network with the first two cities, Chicago and Minneapolis, going live on April 11. The nation’s largest network operator says the service will be available in “select areas” in those markets, and it plans to bring an additional 30 markets online later this year. This also marks the first time Verizon will use the global 5G New Radio (NR) standard developed by 3GPP. The carrier used proprietary techno...

Business Wire | January 21, 2020

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, is coming off a banner year in 2019 featuring the company’s strategic rebrand from Virtual Instruments and extension of its market leadership in hybrid infrastructure management. The company announced today that it achieved record bookings and significant growth in new customer acquisition, nearly 50% growth in channel-initiated business, and 50% growth in its cloud services business over the past 12 mo...

Channelnomics | January 17, 2020

Deal will fetch $557 million as company looks to close $8.4 billion acquisition of Interxion Digital Realty, which has been an aggressive buyer in the global data center and colocation market, has sold 10 data centers in North America to Mapletree, a real estate development and investment firm based in Singapore. The Lowdown: The $557 million deal comes as Digital Realty works to close its planned $8.4 billion acquisition of Interxion, which owns more than 50 colocation data centers in 13 ...

ITWeb | January 15, 2020

Oracle’s new data centres, due to launch in SA later this year, promise to bring unmatched performance, high security and new experiences to local organisations. This was the word from Andrew Sutherland, SVP business development, technology licence and systems at Oracle EMEA and APAC. Speaking this week during a media roundtable discussion at Oracle OpenWorld 2020, at the Dubai Trade Centre Arena, where hundreds of delegates gathered, Sutherland discussed Oracle’s plans to establish ...