November 08, 2024 Oracle
Cloud provider Oracle and telecoms firm Vodafone have announced a partnership to connect the formers’ Edge cloud offering to the latter’s Internet of Things (IoT) network. This partnership aims to bring global IoT connectivity to Oracle’s Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP) customers.Erik...
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October 02, 2024 Oracle
Oracle revealed this week that it plans to open a cloud region in Malaysia, where it will be offering more than 150 infrastructure and cloud services, including Oracle's AI offerings. Customers in the country will have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI agents, as well as...
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September 24, 2024 EdgeConneX
Investment firm Sixth Street has acquired a minority stake in data center firm EdgeConneX from EQT as both companies announced that the EQT Infrastructure IV and V funds have signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in EdgeConneX to funds managed by Sixth Street. Infrastructure will remain...
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September 13, 2024 Oracle
Anduril, a defense technology company, will be deploying Lattice on Oracle Cloud Isolated and National Security Regions - air-gapped cloud infrastructure - as well as Oracle Cloud Regions, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, and Oracle Government Clouds in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United...
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September 12, 2024 Oracle
Oracle and Google Cloud this week announced that the Database@Google Cloud is available in four regions in the US and Europe. The solution is now available from Google Cloud data center regions including US East (Ashburn, Virginia), US West (Salt Lake City, Utah), UK South (London), and Germany...
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August 06, 2024 Oracle
Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Saudi Arabia as a part of its planned $1.5 billion investment in the Kingdom. This public cloud region located in Riyadh is hosted in a Center3 data center and will give organizations access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including...
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August 05, 2024 Oracle
Kings College Hospital London in Dubai (KCH Dubai) has migrated its Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and can now be accessed by more than 1,000 concurrent users across KCH Dubai's facilities. Following this migration, the hospital has reportedly seen a...
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August 03, 2024 Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has added Nvidia L40S GPU bare-metal instances to its cloud infrastructure, launching them alongside plans for a new virtual machine accelerated by a single Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. OCI will offer the L40S GPUs in its BM.GPU.L40S.4 bare-metal compute offering...
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August 02, 2024 Oracle
Thailand-based mobile network operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) is launching a cloud service using Oracle Alloy which it claims will be Thailand's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud, known as AIS Cloud. Somchai Lertsutiwong, chief executive officer, AIS said: "For over 34 years,...
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July 28, 2024 Oracle
Jason Rees, SVP of technology and cloud engineering EMEA at Oracle Cloud during a roundtable this week confirmed that Oracle is not currently looking at developing its own custom chips for artificial intelligence (AI). When asked if Oracle was exploring the possibility of developing its own...
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July 25, 2024 QTS Data Centers
Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...
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June 11, 2024 Oracle
Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI have revealed plans to expand the Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster, for training AI models. It can scale 64k Nvidia Blackwell GPUs or GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips connected by ultra-low-latency RDMA cluster networking...
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May 24, 2024 Aligned
Aligned Data Centers has revealed its plans to proceed with its previously halted data center campus in Maryland after recent regulatory changes. around backup generators, easing restrictions for data center firms. With this move, Aligned will now be moving ahead with its plans for a campus in...
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May 18, 2024 Oracle
Japan-based Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and will now be able to offer its customers more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their data centers and fully control its operations,...
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May 11, 2024 Oracle
Government-owned Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) has equipped its data centers with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region wich can now be used by more than 30 government agencies in Bangladesh while meeting data governance and privacy requirements. Zunaid Ahmed...
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May 04, 2024 Oracle
Oracle is set to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data center in Northern Virginia as a part of a collaboration between the two companies to provide artificial intelligence (AI) services for enterprises. Digital Realty’s website notes that the company has 16 data...
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May 03, 2024 Oracle
Oracle has announced plans for a second Italian cloud region in partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM), which would be the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, located in Turin at the telco’s data center. Following the agreement, TIM Enterprise will also integrate Oracle...
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April 27, 2024 Oracle
Conduent and Voya Financial have joined the list of companies to adopt Oracle Database@Azure to aid their cloud migrations.Oracle Database@Azure is an agreement between Oracle and Microsoft to colocate its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data...
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April 22, 2024 Oracle
Fujitsu has selected Oracle Alloy to deploy sovereign cloud services in Japan. Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables other companies to build their own cloud offering. By using Alloy, Fujitsu will expand its Hybrid IT offering Fujitsu Uvance. Fujitsu will deploy and manage...
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April 18, 2024 Oracle
Reka, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and product company, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its AI models and will use it to create multimodal models that will support over 20 languages and are trained on OCI AI Infrastructure based on Nvidia GPUs. "We are...
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