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AWS launches Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas

Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastr...

July 08, 2021

Amazon AWS

Microsoft to acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud; AT&T to move its 5G network to Azure

Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...

June 30, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Amazon overtakes Google to become largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the US after announcing 14 new renewable projects

Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada.Wi...

June 23, 2021

Amazon AWS

Microsoft intends to open four data centers in China by in 2022

According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends...

June 18, 2021

Microsoft Azure

AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

June 17, 2021

Amazon AWS

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

June 04, 2021

Google

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Facebook releases Renewable Impact Study

A new study into the impacts of Facebook's renewable energy projects was recently released. The report, commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, revealed the social media company's renewable energy efforts have had widespread positive econom...

May 27, 2021

Meta

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

May 19, 2021

Google

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

May 18, 2021

Google

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Google

T5 Acquires an Apple data center in Silicon Valley

T5 has announced that it has acquired an enterprise data center in Newark, CA. The description matches an Apple data center near Fremont. It's a legacy site and Apple is continuing to build monster data center campuses, so it makes sense that the iPhone make would divest the property. The nea...

October 07, 2020

Apple

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co...

April 15, 2020

Google

SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...

April 01, 2020

Microsoft Azure

Apple is Reducing Spend on AWS

AppleInsider reports that Apple's spending on Amazon Web Services is declining. This makes sense, as Apple continues to build their own data centers, their reliance on 3rd party cloud services will decline. That said, Apple needs to work out a better "edge" CDN solution to deliver their conte...

April 25, 2019

Apple

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

Microsoft Azure

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data ce...

March 06, 2019

Meta

CentriLogic Names Chris Dorment as Chief Revenue Officer, Expanding its Leadership Team

TORONTO, ON – CentriLogic, a global provider of managed IT solutions, today announced the hiring of Chris Dorment as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). This addition to CentriLogic’s leadership team, following a strategic equity investment, further demonstrates the company’s commit...

February 11, 2019

CentriLogic

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

Google

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