NEWS
DigiPlex
to provide
Microsoft Azure
ExpressRoute for
the Nordics
igiPlex, a Nordic leader
for innovative, secure and
sustainable data centres, has
announced it will provide Microsoft
Azure ExpressRoute in the Nordic market,
offering customers direct and secure
hybrid-cloud access through its Ulven data
centre in Oslo.
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The launch of the Azure ExpressRoute at the
Ulven data centre will create a private digital
superhighway, offering customers a direct
connection to Microsoft cloud services,
bringing next-generation connectivity and
faster performance, as well as unlocking
greater choice for access and the means to
implement hybrid cloud strategies.
The connection reinforces DigiPlex’s
position as one of the Nordic region’s
most connected data centre operators
and provider of choice for local Nordic
and international businesses. The
collaboration, which follows the launch of
DigiPlex’s Nordic Connect Platform, linking
its main data centres in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, serves to further enhance
the cloud connectivity options available to
DigiPlex customers.
DigiPlex clients using the private
gateway will be able to establish faster
to market and secure connections with
Azure ExpressRoute. Connectivity via
Azure ExpressRoute offers a range of
enhancements for businesses including
lowering operational risks, improving
performance, as well as allowing for greater
flexibility reliability and predictable latency.
Virtual Instruments expands
cloud monitoring and
analytics portfolio
irtual Instruments, a
leader in AIOps for hybrid
infrastructure management,
has announced that it has completed
its acquisition of SaaS-based cloud
cost, optimisation and monitoring
service provider Metricly.
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The acquisition will enable
Virtual Instruments to expand
its cloud migration, monitoring
and analytics portfolio to offer
customers SaaS-based, hybrid
infrastructure management across
multi-cloud environments.
Formerly Netuitive – one of the
pioneers in applying Machine
Learning and AI to IT operations
(AIOps) – Metricly’s platform
provides tools to help customers
plan, analyse, organise and
optimise their cloud workloads,
services and resources.
Metricly specialises in full-stack
monitoring and optimisation of
application middleware, containers
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and microservices in public cloud
environments. The highly scalable
platform is architected based on state-
of-the-art technologies and offers a
self-service free trial evaluation to
visitors on its website.
With the acquisition of Metricly’s
platform, Virtual Instruments
expands its hybrid IT infrastructure
management portfolio to encompass
the full range of the cloud deployment
models – including public, private,
hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Metricly’s cloud-native monitoring,
workload analysis, resizing and AWS
cost optimisation solutions will
integrate with Virtual Instruments’
VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most
comprehensive hybrid infrastructure
monitoring and AIOps platform.
The acquisition will result in the
addition of more than 50 new
integrations for popular open source
DevOps technologies to the Virtual
Instruments portfolio.
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