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Data Centers need personnel and infrastructure to be able to operate effectively. Data Center Operators are companies or individual entities who take care of day-to-day operations of a data center. Responsibilities can include upkeep, maintenance and client relations.

Operators are responsible for installing and maintaining network resources, ensuring data center security and monitoring systems that take care of power and cooling.
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Equinix advances up AWS partner ranks with APN advanced status

Thu, 20th Apr 2017
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Equinix has been elevated up the AWS partner ranks, gaining advanced technology partner designation, with its AWS Direct Connect numbers soaring.
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Equinix to enable hybrid kubernetes architecture with Google cloud

Wed, 19th Apr 2017
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Equinix is partnering with Google to deliver a hybrid Kubernetes architecture, enhancing enterprise cloud migration and multi-cloud solutions.
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How to speak like a data center geek: Virtual reality

Fri, 17th Mar 2017
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Tech giants like Facebook are all in, with the company saying it could spend $3 billion in the next decade to improve virtual reality.
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Equinix: Realizing the true potential of NFV

Wed, 15th Mar 2017
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Equinix champions flexible networks via NFV, unlocking rapid, cost-effective service delivery for enterprise digital transformation.
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Curing security alert fatigue while still protecting your cloud infrastructure

Thu, 9th Mar 2017
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Unfortunately, IT professionals can't easily determine what class of alert the messages represent until they've examined them.
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Increasing data center efficiency, reducing risk and improving planning

Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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Vendor-neutral, colocation data centers are a vital component for accelerating the transition to a more integrated and dynamic IT infrastructure.
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Salesforce ramps up fast and reliable private enterprise connectivity

Mon, 20th Feb 2017
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Together with Equinix, the company recently announced direct, private access to the Salesforce platform via Equinix Cloud Exchange.
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What's the Valentine's Day secret to a love interconnection?

Wed, 15th Feb 2017
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Equinix unveils trailblazing tech for lovestruck souls to forge connections and cure the sting of 'what could have been' this Valentine's Day.
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Be ready: DDoS attacks like you've never seen are coming

Tue, 14th Feb 2017
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At Equinix, we see our global interconnection platform, Platform Equinix, as an excellent staging ground for DDoS defenses.
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Equinix takes on the UK with latest data center acquisition

Tue, 7th Feb 2017
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Equinix completes acquisition of IO UK's data center business in Slough, UK, creating LD10 facility close to existing campus.
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Steps to re-architecting IT for the digital edge

Thu, 26th Jan 2017
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It is being used by more than 8,000 companies and is allowing today's enterprise and service providers to re-architect their IT infrastructures.
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How the cloud is driving digital transformation

Tue, 24th Jan 2017
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2016 hailed as the year the cloud revolutionised IT, with a 53% surge in IaaS and PaaS revenues, pushing digital transformation.
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How 8 years of tech innovation has changed gov't IT

Mon, 23rd Jan 2017
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In just 8 years, gov't IT has been revolutionised, embracing tech like never before—from the CTO role to Cloud First policies.
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Top vendors in the data center rack revealed

Wed, 18th Jan 2017
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The global data center rack PDU market is expected to reach USD 1.93 billion by 2021, with the Americas dominating the sector.
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Cloud analytics - Security, performance, collaboration

Wed, 18th Jan 2017
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Firms rush to harness cloud analytics for strategic edge—achieving rapid, secure data insights and cost-effective collaboration.
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Equinix granted €1B in loans to offset Verizon data center buy

Tue, 10th Jan 2017
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Equinix secures €1.0bn in senior secured term B loans to fund acquisition of data centre sites from Verizon.
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IDC recognises trio of smarter datacenter infrastructure vendors as IDC Innovators

Mon, 9th Jan 2017
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IDC has recognized OptiCool, Romonet, and Vigilent as innovators in the datacenter facility industry for their cooling and environment management solutions.
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Predictions for the connected enterprise: Digital edge, interconnection, evolution

Fri, 16th Dec 2016
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Equinix's insights forecast a revolutionary shift in digital enterprise, emphasising the need for dynamic, interconnected IT strategies.
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​SimpliVity extends healthcare play to help consolidate data centres and improve data protection

Thu, 15th Dec 2016
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SimpliVity partners with Epic to support virtual desktop environments in healthcare industry, offering improved user experience and efficiency.
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How interconnection is creating tomorrow today

Thu, 15th Dec 2016
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The IoT can't work as it should if the voluminous amounts of global data it's producing can't be quickly collected, stored, processed, analyzed.