June 28, 2024 United States
Nokia has entered a definitive agreement to acquire optical networking vendor Infinera for $2.3 billion with an understanding to make at least 70 percent of the payment in cash, and the overall deal including the repurchase of the $760 million in convertible notes owned by Infinera.“In 2021 we...
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June 26, 2024 United States
IT service provider Hivelocity has launched a private cloud offering which uses the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Cloud Director, and NSX architectures, as well as Hivelocity's pre-built infrastructure."As businesses seek to optimize their cloud expenditures while maintaining the necessary...
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June 25, 2024 United States
American printing and digital products provider has announced that it will be commencing a cloud migration to Microsoft Azure cloud with help from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). After this migration, Xerox will be able to deploy a cloud-based ERP platform and to use technologies such as...
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June 24, 2024 United States
A recent S&P Global Ratings research note has found that nuclear plant-owning utilities in the US are likely to sign energy deals with data centers this year. The report noted that nuclear operators poised to take advantage include Constellation Energy Group, PSEG Power, and Vistra.“While...
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June 21, 2024 United States
Duos Technology, a company that specializes in Machine Vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, has launched a new edge data center unit called Duos Edge AI, Inc. The company noted it already deploys some solutions – including a railcar inspection system used by companies...
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June 21, 2024 United States
US manufacturing company Honeywell has announced plans to buy aerospace technology provider CAES for $1.9 billion after agreeing to an all-cash deal with Advent International, the private equity firm that currently owns CAES.“This acquisition further positions Honeywell at the forefront of the...
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June 18, 2024 United States
HPE has partnered with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat in a deal which will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of how...
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June 17, 2024 United States
Edge computing firm StackPath is closing the business and liquidating its assets as confirmed by many of its employees on LinkedIn. StackPath services set to be shuttered include Edge compute, DNS, object storage, network transit, data center colocation, and server monitoring. “After careful...
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June 13, 2024 United States
Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn has invested in liquid cooling firm ZutaCore as part of the agreement to help accelerate the deployment of its HyperCool liquid cooling technology.“With dozens of HyperCool deployments in production, ZutaCore has emerged as the clear leader of...
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June 06, 2024 United States
Montana State University (MSU) has purchased two PT-1 quantum photonics systems, an investment that was funded by the US Air Force as part of a $115 million Applied Quantum Core grant.“By having a working system that has all the modularity you would like, it means we don't have to buy a new...
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June 06, 2024 United States
Quantum computing company Quantinuum announced the launch of the H2-1, a quantum computer with 56 trapped-ion qubits. This marks the upgrade of the company’s flagship System Model H2 quantum computer from 32 to 56 qubits. “We’re extending our lead in the race towards fault-tolerant quantum...
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June 05, 2024 United States
Services firm DDC IT Services has been awarded a $50 million mainframe by the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Mainframe Line of Business (LOB), marking the second won by DDC ITS in the last year following the Mainframe East contract.“We are honored that DISA has once again entrusted...
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June 05, 2024 United States
Compass Datacenters has launched a new program for its frontline construction supervisors which aims to encourage, support, and maximize the project insight of frontline supervisors.“No one has more influence on construction site safety than Frontline supervisors. They have the exceptional...
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May 29, 2024 United States
The United States government in a May 28 document has outlined "voluntary principles" that US participants should "embrace" when it comes to carbon offsets.The document notes that: "Widespread confidence in the integrity of credited emissions reductions and removals is critical for voluntary...
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May 24, 2024 United States
A startup offering self-contained, grid-independent ‘clean energy campuses’ which it says can help businesses design and build new industrial projects is marketing renewable energy campuses across the US to host data centers. This week, Aston announced a “Rapid Development Program (RDP) for clean...
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May 24, 2024 United States
Stulz, an air conditioning specialist this week announced the launch of a new coolant management and distribution unit called CyberCool CMU which was designed to maximize heat exchange efficiency in liquid cooling solutions.Comprising water pumps, plate heat exchangers, water valves, and...
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May 22, 2024 United States
Infineon has unveiled a number of new power supply unit (PSU) solutions to meet the energy demands of AI data centers. The company notes that the power supply units will combine silicon (Si), silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium nitride (GaN) in a “strategic configuration,” which the company said...
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May 20, 2024 United States
Nokia has confirmed the completion of its purchase of Fenix Group which specializes in providing tactical communications solutions for defense communities, including tactical broadband products. Its networks are "designed to provide for mission-critical services at the Edge, mitigating reliance...
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May 20, 2024 United States
GPU designer Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings in the latest quarter, with record revenue of $26 billion."The next industrial revolution has begun — companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated...
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May 13, 2024 United States
The Mitre Corporation is to deploy a GPU supercomputer, the new DGX SuperPod system from Nvidia for government use to support the company’s Federal AI Sandbox, a platform to improve experimentation with AI-enabled applications across federal government agencies. “Mitre’s purchase of a DGX...
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