Verizon pumps new cash into cloud services
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 at 03:44:00 Company planning thousands of new servers Verizon is planning to expand its cloud computing datacentres. The company said that it would be adding some 5,500 new server cabinets as part of an expansion to its facilities in Paris, London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Belgium along with facilities in Australia, Hong Kong and the US. The move is part of an ongoing effort to expand Verizon's enterprise cloud computing services. In particular, the company hopes that the added capacity will help to serve US government customers expected to adopt the service by 2011. In total, the company is planning to spend upwards of $16bn on upgrades to its overall cloud computing platform. Eventually, Verizon said that it hopes to launch a complete IT infrastructure service, a concept the company refers to as 'everything as ...
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