The Business segment offers voice, Internet, data network services, workspace management, and data center services.
Strategic services include Verizon Terremark cloud and data center services, security and IT solutions, advanced communications, and strategic networking.
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With Indian firms on the rise, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep their grasp on different data center services.
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In order to enable the continued growth of on-line data center services we need to work on three important areas.
It recently launched in Dubai a mobile cloud center which will provide a variety of cloud and data center services to companies in the region.
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And Verizon could face big hurdles in getting the new technology adopted, says Amy DeCarlo, principal analyst, security and data center services at Current Analysis in Sterling, Virginia.
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This growth has been driven by management consulting as well as computer and data center services, an area in which Jacksonville has enjoyed among the highest growth rates in the country.
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Equinix, a provider of global data center services which host hundreds of telecommunications connections and many financial exchanges including NASDAQ OMX, CBOE Stock Exchange and BATS Europe, is launching the Equinix Marketplace.
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As the cloud becomes central to operations, companies must contemplate the consequences of delegating critical data center infrastructure to services that might just go away.
Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.
In the past two months, Digital Realty has announced deals to lease space to BT Global Financial Services and Horizon Data Center Solutions.
Many data center providers started in telecommunications and Internet services.
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Once you cut through the marketing chatter, which borders on incomprehensible, it is apparent that they are offering to use their 400, 000-square foot data center in Mahwah, NJ and another large center in the UK to provide co-lo services for trading firms and invite in application providers such as analytics.
Based in Maiden, North Carolina, the data center will help Apple compete with increasingly sophisticated cloud-based services being developed by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com.
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Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp Remote Desktop Services can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).
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Meanwhile, the construction of a new data center in North Carolina may herald an era of tighter integration between software and services at Apple.
Advanced data center and networking companies like Equinix would love to be the place where multi-cloud services live.
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