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A total of 59% of North American enterprises sourced their cloud services from hyperscalers in 2019 — a sum that will rise to 65% in 2021, according to survey results from IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis — Top End User Priorities in Digital Transformation, Global, 2019 — measures the current use and future decision-making behavior toward IT and communications, monitors the status of digital transformation (including the implementation plans for emerging technologies, such as AI, IoT, and blockchain), and evaluates drivers behind investments and challenges across verticals and regions.

WIPL announced a partnership with Plesk.

7x24 Exchange Intl. announced the election of two new officers. Cyrus Izzo, co-president of Syska Hennessy Group, has been elected president of the organization, and Juli Ierulli, e-commerce operations and customer support manager of Caterpillar Inc., has been elected vice president.

Cygnacom’s senior manager of federal professional services, Ella Schwartz, was named the winner of the 2020 Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Hands-on Science Book category for her book, “Can You Crack The Code? A Fascinating History of Ciphers and Cryptography.”

Compass Datacenters LLC purchased 225 acres in Red Oak, Texas, for its new campus, which will provide capacity to hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customers.

Hurricane Electric expanded its points of presence (PoP) at Global Switch’s Amsterdam West, London East, and Sydney locations.

Guidepost Solutions appointed Kenneth Mendelson as a senior managing director.

Stack Infrastructure and Peterson Cos. announced plans to develop a data center campus in Manassas, Virginia.

The software-defined data center market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $40 billion to over $235 billion by 2026, as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights Inc.