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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. D 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. V 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 10 Issue 07 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. www.intelligentdatacentres.com