BROWSING: data center

As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026. AWS said in a release that the new infrastructure region will...

MWC, Barcelona: UK-headquartered NTT has announced a go-to-market deal with energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric to combine private 5G with the French firm’s ‘modular data centre’ proposition. They are pitching to industrial firms with large factories and remote sites. The solution uses...

Singtel said its NVIDIA-powered AI Cloud will be hosted by Singtel’s Nxera regional data center business Singaporean telco Singtel said it has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Program, which will enable it to bring NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform to enterprises across Southeast Asia Singtel’s NVIDIA-powered...

With shifting markets easily weeding out the strong from the weak, DataBank has proven itself as a force in the data center sector. In today's episode, Carrie Charles sits down with none other than DataBank's CEO, Raul Martynek. DataBank had 6 data centers in...

Data center capex growth hit a three year peak and will continue to grow, but at a limited rate thanks to supply chain issues, says Dell'Oro.

Dell pointed to strong infrastructure group sales as indication that it's on the right track for growth despite industry supply chain woes.

Nordic telco Telia's Helsinki Data Center is balancing the regional power grid as part of the Fortum Spring 'virtual battery' initiative.

Intel beat its own guidance by $1.3 billion for the fourth quarter, with data center earnings showing strong year-over-year growth.

DevOps is a practical methodology for making software that is sometimes positioned as a cultural mindset for organizations. 

American Tower's portfolio now consists of nine data centers American Tower has closed the acquisition of data center owner/operator DataSite. The tower company will now assume responsibility for all management and operations of DataSite’s two data center locations in Atlanta, Georgia and Orlando, Florida. This deal...

Belgian telco Proximus is partnered with HCL Technologies to transform its private data center business to a hybrid cloud model.

Xilinx looking to grow its role in mass 5G network deployments Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD, which specializes in high-performance CPUs and GPUs for data centers and PCS as well as gaming SoCs, today announced a "definitive agreement" to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth...

To manage the greater data bandwidth needs inherent with 4k rich media streaming, machine learning, data mining, and analytics, next-generation hyper-scale and cloud-scale datacenters are transitioning to the 400 gigabit ethernet (GbE) standard. This move creates challenges for the resulting temperature rise in pluggable optical...

Baidu says it has “trained more than 1 million AI talents” and “cooperated with more than 200 universities” On Friday, Chinese tech company Baidu laid out the details of its plan to increase its investment in artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, data centers and chips...

Nobody ever said the Ethernet Roadmap was a direct route. When the 25G Ethernet Consortium (Arista, Broadcom, Google, Mellanox Technologies and Microsoft) proposed single-lane 25-Gbps Ethernet and dual-lane 50-Gbps Ethernet in July 2014, it created a big fork in the roadmap. Networks had to...

Greetings from Charlotte/Davidson, Norfolk/ Virginia Beach, Washington DC/ N Virginia, and Dallas/ Ft. Worth (picture is yours truly with Federated Wireless BoD member Tim McDonald).  This week’s TSB will focus on several start-ups that we think deserve attention.  We will also have several TSB...

Distributed AI part of unlocking 5G value Some of the primary enhancements associated with 5G are major increases to cellular speed and similarly significant reductions to latency. This combination is seen as the enabler of applications like mobile augmented and virtual reality, as well as...

This week the Intel Board of Directors announced that Bob Swam, the former chief financial officer and interim CEO since mid-2018, has taken on the top job permanently. Vice President of Finance and Director of Corporate Planning Todd Underwood will  take on the CFO...

The term “logging off” may soon cease to exist thanks to the much-anticipated arrival of 5G. The newest mobile network is set to roll out next year, with promises of flexible, reliable and secure wireless network access from just about anywhere. And we mean anywhere....

Intel PC, IoT, data center, memory businesses all up This week Intel reported what Interim CEO and CFO Bob Swan characterized as an "outstanding" Q2 marked by revenue growth across all PC and data-centric business units. He said the company expects a record-setting 2018 marking...

After China approves the merger, Marvell moves forward with plans to acquire Cavium. Semiconductor company Marvell Technology announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition of Cavium, designer of communications and storage integrated circuits (ICs). The addition of Cavium should boost Marvell’s position in...

In a $1.1 billion deal, AT&T is transferring its data center operations to Brookfield. AT&T is selling its data centers to Brookfield Infrastructure for $1.1 billion and entering into a strategic alliance with the company which includes a colocation services agreement that will enable AT&T...

Microsemi and China Telecom are working prepare optical transport networks for an avalanche of 5G use cases. Semiconductor company Microsemi and China Telecom's Beijing Research Institute are working on 5G-ready optical transport solutions, Microsemi announced yesterday. Key to the effort is the DIGI-G5 chipset, Microsemi’s optical...

Mobile phone chips may become main focus if Qualcomm makes data-center server exit. Qualcomm may leave the data-center server business, reports Bloomberg.  Qualcomm did not confirm the rumor, when contacted for comment. “The reports are valid,” said Linley Gwennap, president of The Linley Group, in a...