We welcome opportunities to collaborate with our partners to educate people on cloud. We just completed a two-city tour of panel discussions on helping enterprises access the cloud locally with our partners Edgeconnex, Megaport, and Comcast. Attendees at the Beers with Peers event Here are some key takeaways from the event: 1.) Enterprises prefer a hybrid, […]
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Google Stadia: Are Data Centers Ready for Streaming Games?
After the launch of Google Stadia, the ambitious live-streaming games platform, Data Centre News chatted with our CTO and co-founder Grant Kirkwood about the feasibility of the idea. Can Google perform a technical feat of this scale? The answer is likely yes: “Many people believe that, similar to streaming movies, streaming games in high definition […]
Avoiding the Risks of Multinational Cloud Storage
It can be tough to navigate the wildly varying data security standards around the globe. It’s even more difficult when some regions have opposite practices and attitudes around privacy. In speaking with IB Times, Unitas Global CTO and co-founder Grant Kirkwood outlines the differences in privacy standards, the risks, and ways to mitigate them when […]
Insights From Intel Partner Connect 2019
At Unitas Global, we’re committed to bringing the most innovative technologies to your IT, and to do that, we partner with industry leaders like Intel. We were invited to this year’s Intel Partner Connect conference in Denver where we gleaned some great insights for the enterprise. Watch this video to check them out! (The full transcript […]
Keeping Connectivity in the Cold
In the winter of 2019, extreme cold weather caused widespread infrastructure damage across the northern US and Canada, causing some enterprises to lose cloud connectivity. Solutions Review sat down with our CTO and co-founder Grant Kirkwood to talk disaster preparedness, recovery, and what to do if freezing temperatures reach your data center: “To ensure public […]
Data Gravity: How Google’s Cloud Storage Keeps You in Its Orbit
Google’s new Storage Growth Plan for Google Cloud is cheaper than its predecessor and allows for more predictability in storage prices. But does that predictability come at the cost of lock-in? With a little help from Unitas, TechTarget breaks down Google’s strategy to ensure their customers keep coming back for more: “Data gravity is a […]
Net Neutrality Might Not Mean What You Think
Protecting—or dismantling—net neutrality may not mean what you think. As the topic becomes a greater part of the conversation, it’s important to understand the technical context of net neutrality. To do that, we need to start at the beginning with the origins of the Internet pairing policy. “Net neutrality: the principle that Internet service […]
Google Throws Down a $13 Billion Gauntlet
AWS and Microsoft Azure are the major players in public cloud, owning 38% and 17% of the market respectively, while Google lags behind at about 8%. The recent announcement that Google would be making a $13 billion investment in their data centers in 2019 signaled an aggressive push to capture a larger slice of the […]
Case Study Video: Tronox
At Unitas, we’re focused on partnership and client satisfaction. When we work with our clients, it’s our goal to maintain the same level of flexibility and collaboration that we do with our partners. We’ve found that becoming a part of our clients’ teams guarantees not only a smooth deployment or migration, but also ensures that […]
AWS Backup: How Amazon’s Disaster Recovery Solution Measures Up
In January, Amazon launched AWS Backup, a full data protection and disaster recovery solution. Information Week took a look at what the solution means for 3rd-party vendors and spoke to our CTO and co-founder Grant Kirkwood about how backup solutions from other providers compare: “AWS Backup is a good way of simplifying backup across multiple […]
