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Cloud giant Dropbox has acquired enterprise communications player

Dropbox’s acquisition of Clementine signals a greater emphasis on the new wave of comms and productivity apps currently occupied by emerging players like Slack and Wrike. Dropbox has it within its power to be, in effect, the workspace of the

Posted in Data Centres

Airspeed in €1.5m investment

Multi gigabit broadband is going to be made available across Ireland as part of a €1.5m investment by fibre and wireless communications player AirSpeed Telecom. As part of the rollout, AirSpeed has struck a deal with forestry organisation Coillte to

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Minister Alex White TD on rollout of National Broadband Plan

By 2018, 85pc of Irish citizens will have high-speed broadband thanks to the National Broadband Plan. That will reach 100pc by 2020. The new network will be future-proofed for 20 years and will cover the rural areas that commercial telecoms

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Female leaders making waves in enterprise IT

Enterprise IT has seen quite an evolution in the past decade, with more and more data processed through smaller, more intricate systems. Cloud computing has brought about a whole swathe of major tech companies, dominating an area – big data

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Facebook Data Centers, New Protocol Helps Add Servers Faster

Things move fast at Facebook. The company has been known to have new engineers write and deploy new features to the platform on their first day on the job. Combined with the rate of growth of its user base, this

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Communications to Offer Cloud Services Out of New Data Center

Shaw Communications announced it will offer enterprise cloud and data management services out of a new data center in Calgary beginning this fall. Shaw will offer cloud hosting, colocation, and managed services from its new 40,000 square foot facility to

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Cleaning Up Data Center Power is Dirty Work

The tech sector’s investment in renewables is on the rise, growing faster than any other sector’s, and some of the biggest investments are in connection with massive data center projects. Just this month, Facebook announced a 200 MW wind-power contract

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Data Center Power: Product News Roundup

Emerson and Eaton make additions to backup data center power product lines, and Power Analytics secures patents for its arc flash protection software.Emerson Network Power, soon to be a stand-alone entity, separate from Emerson Electric, claims to have redesigned its

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DuPont Fabros Launches Second Chicago Data Center

DuPont Fabros Technology this week announced it has opened a new 336,000-square-foot data center facility in the Chicago area that at full build-out will have critical load capacity totaling 25.6 MW, according to the company. Built across the street from

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The Rise of Managed Third Party Cloud

The value proposition of a managed service provider has always been taking over laborious and complicated aspects of a company’s IT, so that the company may focus on core competencies. So what happens when these businesses want to leverage the

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