April 17, 2024 Oracle
IHH Healthcare (IHH) has migrated its workloads to Oracle's cloud offerings. Its Singapore operations will be moved to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. On the other hand, its Malaysia branch has opted to migrate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, one of Oracle's...
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April 16, 2024 Oracle
Singapore and Malaysia-based insurance group Great Eastern has migrated 300 on-premise databases to on-premise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. The company has currently moved 200 terabytes from 300 on-premise Oracle databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer while still housed in its...
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April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...
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April 13, 2024 Edged Energy
Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas “Sustainability is at the core of our...
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April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX
This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robust...
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April 05, 2024 Oracle
Oracle and Palantir are teaming up on secure cloud and AI solutions aimed at governments and businesses globally. They will be combining Oracle's distributed cloud and AI infrastructure with Palantir's AI and decision acceleration platforms. In addition, Palantir will be moving its Foundry...
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February 21, 2024 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of...
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January 16, 2024 Aligned
Data center firm Aligned recently unveiled a new liquid cooling system designed to support high-density compute requirements and supercomputers and can cool densities up to 300kW per rack. This cooling system, called DataFlow is said to be a turnkey solution which supports current and future...
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January 09, 2024 EdgeConneX
Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT...
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December 15, 2023 Oracle
Oracle this week announced the launch of a new region in the city of Valparaíso, to the west of the capital, Santiago. This new region marks the company’s second cloud region in Chile. Joaquin Ma-Shichoy, managing director at Oracle Chile, said, "The arrival of the second Oracle Cloud Region in...
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December 15, 2023 Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has deployed its database services in the Microsoft Azure East US region's data centers, making it accessible to Microsoft customers. This new Oracle Database@Azure service covers all the abilities of the Oracle Database, alongside Azure services, such as the OpenAI...
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December 13, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this point,...
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December 12, 2023 Oracle
Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison revealed this week that the company is planning to expand its data center footprint significantly in the near future. He mentioned that Oracle is in the process of expanding 66 of its existing cloud data centers and building 100 new cloud data centers. Ellison...
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December 11, 2023 Oracle
Oracle has announced the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Bogotá, Colombia, using a data center belonging to its partner, telecoms company Claro. The company mentioned that it is the first major cloud provider to establish a public cloud region in the country. Germán Borromei, managing...
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November 29, 2023 DataBank
DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBank...
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November 16, 2023 DataBank
DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design...
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November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies
The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...
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November 08, 2023 QTS Data Centers
US data center firm QTS recently purchased Dutch data center management and operations company Zentrys. QTS intends to bring Zentrys employees on board over the next year and integrate the newly purchased company with its technology and processes. Chad Williams, CEO of QTS, said, "We welcome...
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November 07, 2023 Flexential
Content Delivery Network (CDN), security, and Edge computing company Cloudflare has blamed its November 2 service disruption on a power failure at a Flexential data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. "On November 2 at 08:50 UTC, Portland General Electric (PGE), the utility company that services PDX-04,...
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November 01, 2023 DataBank
US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet. It...
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