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Equinix and Orange to Bring Cloud Agility to Telco Infrastructure
Orange and Equinix have announced a collaboration to expand the Orange Telco Cloud footprint, using Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service capability—Equinix Metal—to speed the deployment of Orange’s New Generation International Network. The new model enables Orange to provide business and wholesale customers with powerful on-demand Telco Cloud Points of Presence (PoPs), delivering essential services s...
Airtel and IBM to Bring Secured Edge Cloud Services to Indian Enterprises
IBM and Bharti Airtel have announced their intent to work together to deploy Airtel’s edge computing platform in India, which will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities. Once deployed, the platform is designed to enable large enterprises across multiple industries including manufacturing and automotive to accelerate innovative solutions that deliver new value to their clients and...
IBM named COP 27 Technology Partner
IBM has been named technology partner of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, to be hosted by the Egyptian government in Sharm-el-Sheikh during November 6 to 18. At the conference, IBM will showcase how technology and consulting can help business and government leaders align sustainability goals to organizational objectives, responding to regulatory demands without compromi...
The UAE ranks 8th globally for the readiness of markets for electric mobility
EV market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 30% between 2022 and 2028 in the UAE Accelerated by the increasing threat of climate change, interest in electric mobility has escalated over the last four years, both within companies and across societies, according to the findings of a new study conducted by Arthur D. Little (ADL), the leading management consultancy firm with the longest-standing prese...
New IBM LinuxONE Servers Help Reduce Energy Consumption
IBM has unveiled the next generation of its LinuxONE server, a highly scalable Linux and Kubernetes-based platform, designed to deliver scalability to support thousands of workloads in the footprint of a single system. IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 features capabilities that can reduce clients’ energy consumption. For example, consolidating Linux workloads on five IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 systems ins...
Google Cloud signs Sustainability Agreement with SDAIA and MEWA
Google Cloud has announced a collaboration with the Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) and Climate Engine to launch the Earth Observation and Science Program. The program will help address environmental, water and agricultural challenges resulting from climate change, and paves the way for SDAIA and MEWA to lead climate...
Nxtra partners Bloom Energy to deploy fuel cell technology
Bharti Airtel has announced that its subsidiary Nxtra Data Limited has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy low environmental impact fuel cell installation at its data center in Karnataka, reducing carbon emissions through a cleaner, hydrogen ready fuel supply. Nxtra will be the first data center company in India to deploy fuel cell technology to reduce carbon emissions at its data centers while ...
UK firm Datum Datacentres acquires another data center operator Teledata UK
Datum Datacentres has announced its acquisition of Teledata UK, a colocation data centre in Manchester. Datum Datacentres was launched in 2012 with the aim of delivering the most energy efficient and flexible colocation on the market. It was acquired by Funds managed by the UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets business (REPM) in September 2021 with the intention to expan...
Hub71, Siemens Energy to Advance CleanTech and ClimateTech in Abu Dhabi
Partnership supports the UAE’s commitment towards achieving net-zero by 2050 Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, has signed a partnership with Siemens Energy, one of the world’s leading energy technology companies, to advance CleanTech and ClimateTech in Abu Dhabi. Working together in collaboration, Hub71 and Siemens Energy will support tech startups in developing innovative technologies tha...
Nokia provides data centre switching platforms
Nokia has announced it is providing its 7220 IXR data center hardware platforms running SR Linux to DCspine, a subsidiary of Eurofiber Cloud Infra providing digital infrastructure and interconnection services across data centers in Europe. This solution will expand DCspine’s interconnection and cloud services, increase network scalability and enhance network operations through automation. DCspine ...
US is home to half of all hyperscale data centers
As the number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to over 800 at the end of the second quarter, new data from Synergy Research Group shows that the United States accounts for 53% of the capacity of those data centers, measured by critical IT load. While the US accounts for over half of the total capacity, the rest is relatively evenly split between China, Europe and th...
Wesco International to Acquire Hyperscale Data Center Solutions provider Rahi Systems
Wesco International has announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Rahi Systems Holdings, a leading provider of global hyper-scale data centre solutions, for $217 million. The purchase price represents approximately 7.5x Rahi’s projected trailing twelve months of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Rahi Systems serves the full lif...