Salesforce has unveiled Salesforce Genie, a hyperscale real-time data platform that powers the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. With Genie, every company can turn data into customer magic, delivering seamless, highly personalized experiences across sales, service, marketing, and commerce that continuously adapt to changing customer information and needs in real time. Today, 71% of customer...
In the new Data Center Industry Insight Series, Siemon explores the value equation within today’s modern data center Network infrastructure specialist Siemon has launched a series of data center focussed tech briefs in the Middle East and Africa, designed to help data center infrastructure professionals gain a better understanding of how the value derived from their data center is changing in ligh...
STACK Infrastructure, a developer and operator of data centers, and Hafslund Oslo Celsio (“Celsio”), the district heating provider for Norway’s capital city, have successfully completed a one-year ramp-up and excess heat produced by STACK’s OSL01 data center is now providing heat and hot water for up to 5,000 Oslo homes. The idea to feed heat from STACK’s OSL01 data c...
Uptime Institute has announced the release of its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey. The findings show an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient, but still working to address increasing pressure for sustainability progress and reporting, continuing staffing shortages, supply chain delays, costly outages and other complex challenges. “The global digital infrastructure sect...
The Raxio Group has broken ground for the construction of Raxio Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Raxio Group held a ground-breaking ceremony that formally kicks off the construction of the first Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre in the DRC, located at 12eme, Limete, Kinshasa. During the event, Raxio presented its site plans and vision to key stakeholders, while highl...
Bulk Data Centers, one of the Nordics’ leading providers of ultra-scalable, highly connected and sustainable data centers, announced a num the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected and sustainable data centers today announced a number of expansion projects across its data center sites in Norway. With investment focused on ensuring long term availability of power and land pr...
Emissions data must be used to its full potential to help organizations stay on track to achieve their net zero targets. However, Capgemini Research Institute’s newest report, Data for Net Zero: Why data is key to bridging the gap between net zero ambition and action, finds that while a vast majority of organizations recognize the value of emissions data (85%), half of the organizations surveyed s...
Delinea has announced the addition of a new data centre in the UK, broadening compliance options for organisations in the region. The new facility offers access to locally hosted instances of Secret Server Cloud, optimising product performance and giving UK-based customers the peace of mind that their cybersecurity investments with Delinea align to legislative requirements for data protection. As ...
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) and IBM have announced the signing of a strategic agreement to drive adoption of artificial intelligence in the carbon capture and industrial domains across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Announced at the second Global AI summit in the Kingdom, the first use case under this agreement will be in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy in Saud...
Nutanix, a pioneer in enterprise cloud computing, announced a partnership with Trust Systems and Crown Hosting Data Centres, to deliver against Crown Hosting’s Shared Hybrid Initiative with a new service for public service customers wanting to migrate to the cloud on their own terms. As in the commercial sector, public service bodies are increasingly turning to the cloud as a means of delivering d...
Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of FastDeploy. Through a proprietary design and construction methodology created by its Center of Excellence in Engineering, the solution allows implementing data centers up to 50% less time when compared to the traditional model. The scalable solution is highly replicable and is based on prefabricated and transportable modular components which are integ...
Data center developer CyrusOne has announced that its Board of Directors has elected Eric Schwartz as Chief Executive Officer, to be effective on or about October 1, 2022. Schwartz succeeds Dave Ferdman, who has served as CyrusOne’s interim President & Chief Executive Officer since July 28, 2021. Ferdman, Founder of CyrusOne, will continue to work with the Company and the team in the role of B...