November 02, 2024 Equinix
US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 sq...
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November 01, 2024 NTT Data
NTT Data has selected Oracle Alloy to enhance its sovereign cloud services in Japan. The company will deploy Oracle Alloy in its data centers, giving customers access to more than 150 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.“The aim of our...
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October 30, 2024 Equinix
Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix...
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October 29, 2024 Google
American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's...
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October 28, 2024 AT&T
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to transfer control of a chunk of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band to FirstNet, which operates a network for first responders that AT&T uses. The FCC voted 4-0 in favor of handing the spectrum to FirstNet. Commissioner Anna Gomez did not...
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October 25, 2024 Google
The vice president, general manager, and head of platform at Google Cloud is set to depart after spending the last five and a half years at Google, joining from Oracle Cloud along with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "The decision to leave Google is one of the toughest I’ve ever made," Zavery...
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October 19, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stack...
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October 19, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated...
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October 15, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The...
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October 14, 2024 Google
Google Quantum AI has invested an undisclosed sum in quantum startup QuEra. In a statement, the neutral-atom quantum computing company said the investment will help it “accelerate technology advancements” such as developing scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Commenting on the...
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October 11, 2024 NTT Data
NTT Data has partnered with Gaia-X to deploy a testbed for a Gaia-X Digital Clearing House in Japan, which is the first outside of Europe, which is the first outside of Europe. Gaia-X is a European initiative seeking to establish a federated European cloud platform that is big enough to challenge...
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October 05, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also...
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October 03, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also...
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October 03, 2024 Google
NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meeting...
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October 03, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which now...
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October 01, 2024 Google
Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look into...
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September 30, 2024 Google
Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia...
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September 30, 2024 Google
Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing...
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September 25, 2024 Equinix
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network. Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services will...
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September 21, 2024 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a biomass carbon sequestration carbon capture deal with biomass sequestering company Arbor. The company's system uses waste biomass to create power, while also capturing the CO2 it says would have been released into the atmosphere via that biomass decomposing or burning up in...
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