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IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As e...

November 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

IBM Cloud

Google DeepMind refutes criticism of AI chip design platform AlphaChip

Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company...

November 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

November 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Saudi dairy company Almarai moves to Google Cloud

Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereign...

November 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was ...

November 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

November 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

October 31, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Citigroup signs multi-year contract with Google Cloud

American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's ...

October 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

VP and head of platform Amit Zavery to leave Google

The vice president, general manager, and head of platform at Google Cloud is set to depart after spending the last five and a half years at Google, joining from Oracle Cloud along with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "The decision to leave Google is one of the toughest I’ve ever made," Zavery ...

October 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

October 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

October 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Ansys and TSMC to partner with Microsoft for silicon photonic simulations

Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The ...

October 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google Quantum AI invests in QuEra

Google Quantum AI has invested an undisclosed sum in quantum startup QuEra. In a statement, the neutral-atom quantum computing company said the investment will help it “accelerate technology advancements” such as developing scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Commenting on the inves...

October 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...

October 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also comm...

October 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

October 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look i...

October 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that w...

October 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

IBM Cloud

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia P...

September 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing ...

September 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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