Tag Archives: Extends

Contract logistics provider GXO Logistics Inc. has expanded its shared warehousing product beyond U.S. shores, announcing today that it has launched the “GXO Direct” platform in the UK.

GXO Direct combines certain capabilities from GXO itself with Clipper Logistics plc, the British tech firm it acquired for some $1.3 billion in 2022. That deal came just months after Connecticut-based GXO began trading on the New York Stock Exchange after being spun off from parent company XPO Logistics.

According to GXO, the product supports fast fulfillment, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, returns management, and low cost operations. GXO Direct also uses its shared resources business model to help clients achieve economies of scale, reduce costs, minimize environmental impact ,and deliver a…

VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments.

Announced at the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, the VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal service takes advantage of more than 240 Equinix data centers in 71 major metro areas around the world to deploy instances of the VMware Cloud platform running atop the company’s virtual machine software.

Narayan Bharadwaj, vice president of cloud solutions at VMware, said this VMware service extends the scope and reach of the company’s multi-cloud computing strategy beyond the scope of the major hyperscalers and traditional on-premises IT environments.

The goal is to provide a managed IT environment that…

IDrive® Compute, a high-performance VPS hosting solution from IDrive Backup with an international network of edge computing locations, has expanded even more by adding a number of data centers throughout Europe. This enables developers and businesses based all over Europe to host multiple virtual instances on an infrastructure loaded with powerful physical servers and robust hardware resources, all managed off-premise at the edge location closest to them for optimal performance.

As IDrive® Compute continues to grow and become more popular among users all over the world, the company made it a priority to add these data centers to ensure that these users receive a faster response when collecting, analyzing and passing through data, instead of directing it…