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Subsea Cloud announces three underwater data center projects
Subsea Cloud, the company proposing to put commercial data centers in deep ocean waters, has moved closer to a physical launch. The company plans to install a pod near Port Angeles, Washington State. The “Jules Verne” pod will start with of a 6m (20ft) shipping container around nine meters underwater, holding 800 servers, eventually scaling to 100 such pods. It will be followed by two ...
Ericsson raises sustainability bar anew with triple-band, tri-sector 5G radio
Ericsson is once again setting the pace for sustainable networks with the introduction of a new triple-band, tri-sector radio that can do the job of nine radios. Radio 6646 cuts energy consumption by 40 percent compared to triple-band single-sector radios, and with reduced weight – including use of aluminum – by 60 percent, minimizing site footprint as well. The new radio extends the multiband cap...
Macquarie Asset Management acquires minority stake in ST Telemedia’s VIRTUS Data Centres
ST Telemedia Global Data centres (ST Telemedia) has reached an agreement for Macquarie Asset Management, via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7, to acquire a significant minority stake in leading data centre provider VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS). VIRTUS provides colocation and cloud connectivity services to blue-chip clients, including global technology companies and enterprise clients. Its ...
VMware Advances Multi-Cloud Management with VMware Aria
More organizations are delivering applications across public clouds and at the edge, and they’re increasingly using Kubernetes to manage and scale their modernized and cloud-native apps. However, managing apps and infrastructure in a multi-cloud, especially public cloud, and multi-technology environment is complex. Teams have to control costs, ensure performance, and manage consistent security pol...
Accenture Completes Acquisition of Sentia
Accenture has completed its acquisition of Sentia’s businesses in the Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the Sentia group provides cloud advisory and delivery services spanning hybrid and multi cloud strategy, cloud transformation and migration. The acquisition, previously announced on August 2, adds more than 300 cloud specialists to Accenture Cloud First, bolste...
Vertiv Issues Recommendations for Data Center Operators to Withstand Global Heat Waves
Record-breaking heat waves are making headlines and straining economies around the globe, with no signs of cooling down in the immediate future. Beyond the impact on human lives, extreme heat is taking a major toll on data center operations and infrastructure, from outages and disruptions at data centers in the United Kingdom, to reduced production at power plants in France, to concerns over water...
Vertiv Recognized for Micro Data Center Solutions in 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports
Vertiv has been recognized as a sample vendor for micro data center solutions in Gartner Hype Cycle reports for both Edge Computing and Midsize Enterprises. Each year, Gartner creates more than 90 Hype Cycles in various domains as a way for clients to track technology maturity and future potential. On the topic of micro data centers, the Gartner reports state that creating micro data centers is so...
Qatar launches first hyperscale datacentre region
The Microsoft cloud datacentre region in Qatar will drive growth and scale for the more than 100 Microsoft partners in the country, as well as global partners looking to establish themselves in the country. Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has partnered with Microsoft to launch the first hyperscale cloud datacentre region. The Microsoft cloud datacentre region i...
Scala Data Centers launches the largest vertical data center in Latin America
Scala Data Centers, a Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the hyperscale market, launches the largest vertical data center in Latin America, SGRUTB04, with a total capacity of 18MW. Located in the Tamboré Campus, the company’s complex in Greater São Paulo, Brazil, SGRUTB04 goes into service dedicated to a single hyperscale client, with a commitment to full capacity for mor...
Africa Data Centres to expand Samrand facility in Johannesburg
Africa Data Centre’s entire platform capacity is expected to exceed 100MW on completion of the Samrand Facility. Africa Data Centres has broken ground on the expansion of its Samrand facility in Johannesburg, from 10MW to 40MW of IT load. “The expansion,” says Tesh Durvasula, CEO of Africa Data Centres, “will happen in multiple phases. The construction of the first phase is starting today and will...
AWS Launches Region in the United Arab Emirates
AWS is planning to invest an estimated $5 billion (AED 20 billion) in the UAE over the next 15 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second Region in the Middle East, the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations will have even greater choice for running...
Rackspace achieves Qualified Security Assessor status for Payment Card Industry in EMEA
Rackspace Technology has announced it has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC) status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) across EMEA (referred to as Europe and CEMEA by the PCI SSC).