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Internap, a global provider of infrastructure-as-a-service solutions (IaaS) hosting, announced the appointment of Mike Higgins Vice President of business development. This is a new position for the company that will focus on driving growth through customer acquisition and retention, focusing on strategic accounts.

Mike Higgins has a history of 20 years of building and maintaining customer relationships and most recently served as senior vice president of Team Data Center Services Internap . In this role, he was responsible for the design and engineering of product management colocation and data center.

"The changing customer demands, new digital business models and increased competition in the sector are forcing companies to look for more ways to differentiate, "said Mike Higgins, senior vice president of business development, Internap.

M .. Higgins came first Internap in 04 as his Vice President financial planning and analysis . with the new appointments, his former team will be further integrated into the data center business unit and network services under Steven Orchard, its senior vice president and director . General Peter Bell, senior vice president of worldwide sales Internap will continue to have direct responsibility for sales worldwide through all routes to market. - direct, channel and inside / sale prices

"customer acquisition and retention are the two most important elements in accelerating Internap growth," said Michael Ruffolo President and CEO at Internap . "In this new role, Mike will appeal to his deep understanding of the infrastructure needs of the customers, in-depth industry knowledge and product expertise to build and develop relationships of trust with our customers and sustainable loyalty . Under his leadership, we will streamline and improve the customer experience, from the initial design of the solution through onboarding and account management after sales. "

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Before Internap, Mr. Higgins has held numerous leadership positions in finance, operations and business development over a period of 18 career while MCI , where he was most recently vice president of business operations. In this role, he led the planning efforts sales for each of the company's market segments, which included product planning, customer acquisition efforts, the profitability of the product line and integration product.

"changing customer requirements, new digital business models and increased competition in the industry require companies to seek more and more ways to differentiate themselves while providing exceptional service their customers have come to expect, "said Mike Higgins ." I'm excited about this new role and I look forward to helping even more customers around the world leverage performance, reliability and scalability of Internap hybrid infrastructure solutions to give their business a competitive advantage. "

Mr. Higgins holds a M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and a B. S. in Accounting from Villanova University. He currently resides in the greater Atlanta area.

global telecommunications provider Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) acquired private Black Lotus, a global provider of Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) mitigation services. The acquisition of Black Lotus would add additional capabilities to existing service level DDoS 3, which launched earlier this year, including adding additional treatment centers.

The level of mitigation DDoS Service 3 provides improved detection and network-based mitigation solution to routing sides of the washing system, rate limiting and IP filtering capabilities. Black Lotus adds DDoS mitigation services based on portfolio proxies providing additional capabilities for application layer attacks, as well as the advanced technology of behavioral analysis. The application layer is a target for DDoS attacks that often impact a web servers and web hosting providers.

Level 3 acquired the shares in Black Lotus circulation in a transaction entirely in cash on July 1, 2015. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

"Level 3, we value security and we are committed to protecting our customers and our network," said Chris Richter, senior vice president of managed security services at 3 . "Proxy and behavioral Black Lotus technologies, combined with their experienced team of experts DDoS perfectly complete DDoS mitigation and threat level of intelligence capabilities 3. with this acquisition, level 3 continues its commitment invest in a complete portfolio of services that enhance the growth, efficiency and security of our customers' operations, helping businesses fight against cybersecurity problems they face every day. "

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) broke the barrier peak Internet traffic of 4 terabits per second (Tbps ). As one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, AMS-IX now has more than 700 connected IP networks - with 60 of them connected in the first half of 2015.

AMS-IX below 4 Tbps (4000 Gbps) of peak Internet traffic September 16 ^e at 20:30 (CEST) . AMS-IX has reached 3 Tbps in the same month last year and in November 2012, he hit the 2 Tbps. This shows that the growth of Internet traffic to AMS-IX has increased more rapidly over the previous three years.

There are several important factors to this growth in Internet traffic. AMS-IX has experienced strong increase in orders for new port capacity , an indication that its members and customers are prepared for sustained growth of Internet traffic. In 2014, nearly 3.5 Tbps of new member capacity and port customer was added to the platform peering AMS-IX, while in June 2015 had already reached 3 Tbps.

In addition, the increasing use of mobile devices and data, cloud applications and online video also helped to generate IP traffic up.

"Our strategy is growth, both in new parties and traffic, because continued growth is what defines the exchange value Internet," said Job Witteman, CEO of AMS-IX . "to see AMS-IX break the barrier 4 Tbps having already logged several parts in the first half of 2015 (60) than in the same period in previous years, which makes us very positive about the future growth of the platform in the coming years. "

Founded in the early 190s, AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is . a neutral non-profit and independent Internet exchange based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands AMS-IX deployed two exchanges abroad: AMS-IX Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific region and AMS-IX Caribbean Curacao. subsidiary of AMS-IX AMS-IX USA Inc. deploys Bay Area AMS-IX AMS-IX AMS-IX AMS-IX Chicago and New York to United States.

Western digital, storage solutions manufacturer well known for providing hard disk drives (HDD) to the global market, announced the acquisition of specialist SanDisk flash memory. The transaction, approved by the boards of both companies, is valued at approximately $ 19 billion

SanDisk brings a history of 27 years of innovation and expertise in flash memory ( non-volatile memory. - NVM) solutions and processing systems. Combining SanDisk and Western Digital allows companies to integrate vertically Western Digital in NAND flash memory solutions , secure long-term access to the solid state drive (SSD) cost technology.

The acquisition will be financed through a mixture of cash , a new debt financing and stock Western Digital . The transaction is subject to approval by SanDisk's shareholders and is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2016.

HDD, SSD, Cloud

"This acquisition transformation corresponds to our long-term strategy to be an innovative leader in the storage industry by providing compelling, high-quality products with advanced technology," said Steve Milligan, general manager, Western digital . "the combined company will be well positioned to seize the growth opportunities created by the rapid development of storage industry. I am very pleased to welcome SanDisk team as we seek to create additional value for all our stakeholders, including our customers, shareholders and employees. "

Western Digital and complementary product lines of SanDisk, including hard drives, SSD, cloud data center storage solutions and flash storage solutions, provide the basis of a broader set product and consumer technologies to the data center. both companies have strong R & D and engineering capabilities and rich base of core technologies combined with over 15,000 patents issued or pending in world.

"Western Digital is globally recognized as a provider of leading storage solutions and has a heritage of 45 years of development and manufacturing of advanced solutions, which makes the company the ideal strategic partner for SanDisk, "said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO, SanDisk . "Importantly, this combination also creates an even stronger partner for our customers. Joining forces with Western Digital will enable the company combined to offer the broadest range of innovative storage solutions advanced to customers across a wide range of markets and applications. "

" the combined company will be well positioned to seize the growth opportunities created by the rapid development of storage industry, "said Steve Milligan, General manager, Western digital.

Toshiba has been a long-term strategic partner SanDisk for 15 years. The joint venture with Toshiba is underway, allowing vertical integration through partnership technological driven by deep collaboration between design and building process. the joint venture will provide steady NAND offers to scale through a proven business model by time and extends through technology NVM such as 3D NAND.

Financial Advisors

Steve Milligan will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the combined company, and the company will remain based in Irvine, California. At closing, Sanjay Mehrotra will join the Board of Directors Western Digital.

BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan are acting as financial advisors and lead to Western Digital will provide committed financing for the transaction. In addition, Credit Suisse is acting as financial advisor and provided a financing commitment, and RBC Capital Markets provides committed funding. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Baker & McKenzie are acting as legal advisors from Western Digital.

Goldman Sachs acted as exclusive financial advisor to SanDisk. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as exclusive legal advisor to SanDisk.

NVIDIA unveiled new additions to its NVIDIA Tesla platform - a platform from end to end HyperScale data center that allows web hosting service companies accelerate their huge learning workload of the machine and increase the flow of data centers. The new HyperScale NVIDIA accelerator line consists of two accelerators Tesla Tesla GPU M40 and M4 GPU.

The Tesla M40 GPU accelerator allows researchers to innovate more rapidly and design new deep neural networks for each of the increasing number of applications that they want to feed artificial intelligence (AI). The Tesla GPU accelerator M4 is a low power accelerator designed to deploy these networks throughout the data center. The line also includes a set of libraries accelerated by the GPU.

The new hardware and software products are designed specifically to accelerate the flow of Web applications that are racing to incorporate AI capabilities. Machine learning is used to voice recognition more accurate. It allows the object and automatic recognition scene in the video or photos with the possibility of marking for further research. It makes possible facial recognition in videos or photos , even when the face is partially obscured. And the services it powers the current tastes and individual interests, which can organize schedules, provide relevant news and respond to voice commands with precision and in a conversational tone.

Cloud Services, Automotive, Health

"The race is artificial intelligence," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co founder and CEO of NVIDIA . "Learning the machine is undoubtedly one of the most important developments in computing today, across the computer, the Internet and cloud computing. Industries ranging from cloud services in consumer, automotive and health care are revolutionizing as we speak. We created the HyperScale Tesla accelerator line to give a boost machine learning 10X. The time and cost savings for data centers will be important. "

The accelerator NVIDIA HyperScale line was created to accelerate those workloads and to significantly increase the speed of data centers. These new additions to the NVIDIA Tesla platform include:

• NVIDIA Tesla M40 GPU - accelerator "very powerful" designed for training deep neural networks
• NVIDIA Tesla M4 GPU - low power, small form factor accelerator to the inference machine learning and image and video processing
• NVIDIA HyperScale Suite streaming - a "rich suite" of software optimized for machine learning and video processing

NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerator M40

the GPU accelerator NVIDIA Tesla M40 would allow scientific data to save days or even weeks of time while training their deep neural networks against massive amounts of data for the overall accuracy. The main features include:

• Optimized for machine learning - Reduces training time by 8X compared to processors (1.2 days against 10 days for a typical training AlexNet)
• Designed for 24/7 reliability - .. Designed and tested for high reliability in environments of data centers
• scale-out performance - Support NVIDIA GPUDirect for the rapid formation of neural multi-node network.

NVIDIA Tesla GPU Accelerator M4

The NVIDIA Tesla M4 accelerator is a low-power GPU designed specifically for hyperscale environments and optimized for demanding , with strong growth in Web services applications, including video transcoding, image and video processing, and learning the inference machine. Key features include :.

• higher throughput - Transcodes, improves analysis and up to 5X more simultaneous video streams compared to processors
• low consumption energy - with a selectable power profile by the user, the Tesla M4 consumes 50-75 watts of power, and delivers up to 10X better energy efficiency of a CPU for video processing algorithms and learning machine
• Small form factor -. Low-profile PCIe design integrates the required enclosures for data center systems HyperScale

NVIDIA HyperScale Suite

The new NVIDIA HyperScale Suite includes tools for developers and managers of central data, specifically designed for Web services deployments, including:

• cuDNN - popular software algorithm for deep processing convolutional neural networks used for AI applications
• FFmpeg multimedia software GPU acceleration - .. Harnesses FFmpeg software widely used to accelerate video transcoding and video processing
• NVIDIA GPU Engine REST -. Enables the "creation and deployment of high-speed, low latency easy" accelerated web services covering the dynamic image resizing, faster search, classification of images and other tasks
• NVIDIA picture Compute Engine . - GPU acceleration service with REST API that would provide resizing "5 times faster" compared to a CPU image

L GPU accelerator NVIDIA Tesla M40 and HyperScale Suite software will be available later this year, while the NVIDIA Tesla GPU M4 will be available during the first quarter of 2016.

global supplier of flash storage solutions, SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and QCT ( Quanta Technology Cloud), a global provider of data center solutions, announced a collaboration to provide an all-flash storage solution designed to provide large scale, efficiency and resilience and OpenStack Ceph environments.

The joint solution be built on InfiniFlash system SanDisk unique server designs QCT and provide a unified scale-out, all-flash solution petabyte storage for workloads such as Big Data environments.

InfiniFlash is a platform "new generation" of storage created by SanDisk, offering "up to 5 times the density, 50x IOPS and 4x reliability," while using "up to 80 percent less power "than traditional hard disk drive (HDD) arrays.

unique server designs QCT data centers would advance to the next level of Performance HyperScale and efficiency, helping customers accelerate data center in constant evolution battle of cloud computing.

"as a leader in flash storage solutions, we recognize the scale of the challenges involved in cloud infrastructure of our customers," said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, systems and software solutions at SanDisk . "in partnership with QCT, SanDisk is better equipped to deploy flash for our customers hyperscale data centers and support a wide range of workloads with greater agility, performance and reliability across the data center. "

QCT product lines include servers, storage, network switches, integrated racks of systems and cloud solutions, while offering HyperScale scalability and optimized performance for each workload.

"We are excited about the positive impact of this technological collaboration," said Mike Yang, general manager of QCT . "As one of the data centers leading provider of cloud-native solutions, QCT has built its success on our engineering expertise in designing effective systems and innovation. with access to all-flash storage solutions from SanDisk, we can now provide more cloud systems improved and integrated with HyperScale efficiency to customer data centers. "

Seagate and Newisys said that 21 Newisys NSS-2601 with the storage modules for dual server NSS-HWxEA deployed the newest SAS Seagate 10.2 SSDs can be combined in a single 42U rack to reach the block I / O performance of 1TB / s with storage 5PB. Each Newisys 2U server with 60 Seagate SSD would be able to reach a bandwidth of 49GB / s.

Designed for HPC applications, this data center solution leverages what high performance SSD drives can provide without sacrificing space, power, cooling and redundancies. "Crossing the threshold of 1TB / in a single rack while taking advantage of industry standard products is an important step," said Eugene McCabe, executive vice president of the Newisys products division at Sanmina Corporation .

Applications that could benefit the most from this flash solution include those in which count in microseconds processing massive amounts of data . These applications can include metadata caches for large data centers, as well as predictive models for financial markets, oil and gas, and weather conditions that are constantly changing and the need to push the envelope performance in a constant race against time.

"This is one of the highest storage densities ever achieved in the industry, and holds the potential for new breakthroughs in the performance of the storage system," said Brett Pemble, vice president and general manager of flash products, Seagate . "Our partnership with Newisys allows us to continue to innovate with the way storage is architected."

Cloud, data integrity

The enclosure Newisys NSS-2601 supports 60 2.5 "SAS drives and two storage modules for NSS-server HWxEA . Each NSS-HWxEA Storage server Module is a high enterprise-level server performance covering a wide range of needs cost performance.

The high availability ultra-high-density platform can be configured as a single dose (HW1EA) or dual socket (HW2EA) server that supports the Intel E5-20 v3 / 4 family of Xeon processors. the modules allow 32 SAS routes 12Gb / each, and the enclosure supports data path of 12Gb / completely through the end devices. the solution includes full server redundancy and data loss protection capabilities.

the Seagate 10.2 SSD SAS is the first device SAS 12Gb / dual-channel to optimize throughput with sequential up to 100MB / bed and offers multiple choice endurance in a single hardware design and firmware. The 10.2 SSD SAS protects against data detected, involuntary corruption and prevents unauthorized access with three security levels . For customers of the enterprise and cloud computing also require high data availability, this SSD deliver data integrity required in the case of an unexpected power loss.

Caringo, founded in 05 to solve problems related to the growth of relentless data, announced the immediate availability of storage of objects Swarm software on Microsoft Azure. This would allow rapid deployment of reliable storage, scalable and compliant developers and companies in one of the global managed data center network that provides Azure. Now, applications using Amazon S3 can "seamlessly" move to Azure using Caringo Swarm.

When combined with Azure, the Swarm Caringo solution would provide instant global infrastructure designed for the "Cloud Age" and beyond by integrating with Windows or NetApp file servers and using motion-based strategies to provide infinite storage level. Once Swarm, files can be combined and protected in a pool searchable for continued use and complex analysis. Caringo Swarm would be a good choice for organizations subject to regulatory compliance as it offers integrated features such as WORM, seals integrity, and legal hold.

"Running Swarm on Azure: companies have instant access to both a storage solution of objects, more infrastructure as a service worldwide," said Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product, Caringo . "businesses and developers can now meet all file storage and retention requirements quickly and seamlessly with universal access through our native interface RESTful HTTP API Amazon S3, as well as direct integration with Windows and NetApp filers. "

Caringo Swarm , when using Azure, provide immediate value to both firms and developers by allowing them to:

• optimize primary storage through automated tiering Azure filers without changing the mount points or workflow
• Move the Amazon S3 storage Azure while maintaining interoperability of applications
• Consolidate file of all taxfilers in an unlimited level object storage accessible through a web portal for research and administration
• access and file management universally through clouds protocols and file and RESTful API
• quickly deploy disaster recovery sites worldwide

"companies want increasingly using cloud storage, while maintaining on-site data center to expand their iT environments without the complexity and cost, "said Nicole Herskowitz, senior product marketing manager, Microsoft Azure . "With Caringo Swarm and Microsoft Azure, data can live in the cloud and in hybrid cloud solution -. Combining on-site cloud storage"

Caringo Swarm is available on the Azure Microsoft Marketplace or contacting Caringo.

ProfitBricks, a provider of IaaS cloud hosting infrastructure, announced a partnership with PAX8 that will make the facilitator and distributor of cloud services exclusive distributor of the cloud IaaS platform ProfitBricks the United States and Canada.

ProfitBricks cloud provider joins PAX8 to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the IT channel ease the transition from traditional infrastructure to the cloud, including managed service providers ( MSPs), value added resellers (VARs) and IT and cloud services providers.

PAX8 now have the exclusive distribution rights in the US and Canada for the IaaS cloud ProfitBricks infrastructure and will continue to help MSPs, VARs and IT service providers migrate and build profit centers to the cloud infrastructure, tools and applications.

"as a cloud provider worldwide, we are seeing a growth in the US market to be particularly strong in terms MSPs and VARs," said ProfitBricks CMO, Andreas Gauger . "We need a much stronger distribution channel for this market, which is why we are partnering with PAX8. the team is highly PAX8 qualified to enable MSPs with cloud solutions for all the needs of SMB, e-mail security to cloud infrastructure. "

ProfitBricks offers a complete, cloud data tools management and support center for ConnectWise and other platforms popular channel activation.

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"I am selling solutions in the channel for decades, and we are now helping MSP My team and VAR and suppliers iT solutions make the transition to the cloud infrastructure, "said John Street, CEO of PAX8 ." We were impressed with the flexibility and performance of ProfitBricks cloud platform on which we our MSPs and IT solution providers are able to deploy multiple complex once only solutions on site. "

PAX8 is a cloud activation platform that provides solutions based on the cloud to a global network of partners and customers. The company provides background services such as billing, user management and go-to market services, including marketing support and training.