Rackspace Technology has announced the launch of Rackspace Technology Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Rackspace SDDC Enterprise, Rackspace SDDC Business, and Rackspace SDDC Flex. These new offerings will provide targeted solutions for organizations to bridge the gap between the cloud and data centers. As organizations continue to move out of internally managed data centers to the cloud, Racksp...
Pure Storage has announced continued growth of its subscription service offerings, including its Evergreen portfolio, in addition to a new energy efficiency service level agreement (SLA) for Evergreen//One. The introduction of the new SLA represents the first and only energy efficiency guarantee in the enterprise storage as a service market, and supports Pure Storage’s mission to provide customers...
AirTrunk has announced its entry into Malaysia with plans to develop a 150+ megawatt (MW) data centre. Named AirTrunk JHB1 (JHB1), the facility will be the company’s first in Malaysia and ninth in APJ, taking its data centre platform to over 1.35 gigawatts (GW) of capacity. The JHB1 campus will span 10.3 hectares of land in Johor Bahru, a strategic location at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsu...
Red Hat has announced its ambition to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 to address the global climate crisis. Red Hat’s 2030 operational net-zero goal follows a science-aligned pathway to limit global warming to 1.5-degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and includes scope 1 and 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions associated with Red Hat’s electricity consumpt...
New UAE data center, strong cloud adoption, and customer successes underpin growth in the region Epicor has discussed key developments in its Middle East growth strategy at the company’s 2023 Middle East Customer Day on January 17, including plans to launch a new regional data centre driven by surging customer cloud adoption. With increased interest and demand in cloud solutions amongst Epicor cus...
In his new role Marc will be tasked with continuing to lead Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division across Europe Schneider Electric has announced it has appointed Marc Garner as the new regional Senior Vice President of its Secure Power Division in Europe. Garner is a 17-year veteran of Schneider Electric, and since first joining its graduate program in 2005, has progressed through several lea...
Pan-African data centre firm Raxio has announced that it is investing and establishing ‘Raxio Angola’, the first state-of-the-art, carrier neutral, Tier III data centre in the country. Raxio Angola is the latest facility to be part of Raxio’s fast expanding network of interconnected carrier neutral, Tier III data centres across the African continent. Angola’s digital and telecommunications ecosyst...
AI Center of Excellence will focus on finding carbon neutral solutions for existing energy resources Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in collaboration with IBM formally launched an AI Center of Excellence on Tuesday, January 17, as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week’s World Future Energy Summit. The Center aims to advance collaboration to improve the adoption of ...
CEOs are facing an enormously challenging global context, with the vast majority (93%) experiencing 10 or more simultaneous challenges to their businesses and 87% warning that current levels of disruption will limit delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finds the largest CEO study on sustainability ever conducted by the UN Global Compact and Accenture. While CEOs are increasingl...
Alibaba DAMO Academy (“DAMO”), the global research initiative by Alibaba Group, has shared its annual forecasting of the leading technology trends that could shape many industries in the years ahead. Among the leading technology trends, Generative AI, which has already gained considerable traction, is expected to make further strides with its growing applications set to transform how digital conte...
CEOs are facing an enormously challenging global context, with the vast majority (93%) experiencing 10 or more simultaneous challenges to their businesses and 87% warning that current levels of disruption will limit delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finds the largest CEO study on sustainability ever conducted by the UN Global Compact and Accenture. While CEOs are increasingl...