June 12, 2024 Crown Castle
Crown castle which operates more than 40,000 towers, has acknowledged that it's become more difficult to build new infrastructure. This is due to opposition from residents and the fact that some municipalities don't want more telecom masts at all."It's generally because it's very difficult to...
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June 07, 2024 Amazon AWS
Singapore-based insurer Singlife has completed its cloud migration to Amazon Web Services. The move was multi-phased and involved migrating more than 39 mission-critical applications to the cloud and exiting Singlife's data centers within 18 months.Romil Sharma, group head of technology and...
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June 05, 2024 Equinix
Equinix this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...
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June 05, 2024 Amazon AWS
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripheral...
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June 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation...
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May 30, 2024 Amazon AWS
Insurance provider FWD Group has signed a five-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see AWS continue to host the company's core business applications including finance, customer, and insurance agent interfaces, as part of the company's ongoing cloud migration.Sandeep...
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May 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) in partnership with Orange has revealed plans to launch a Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Africa, one of which will be in Morocco, where Oracle has confirmed plans for two new cloud regions. Jérôme Hénique, CEO at Orange Middle East and Africa, said: “The announcement...
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May 28, 2024 Equinix
Equinix has now broken ground in Malaysia with two International Business Exchange data centers in Johor (JH1) and Kuala Lumpur (KL1) now serving the company’s customers in Malaysia and across. Jeremy Deutsch, president for Asia-Pacific at Equinix, said: “Malaysia is a cornerstone market and top...
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May 24, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services this week announced plans to invest €15.7 billion in Spain into its AWS Europe (Spain) Region. “We are committed to supporting Spain across multiple areas," said Suzana Curic, AWS country manager, Spain and Portugal. "Beyond direct investments and jobs supported, we plan to...
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May 20, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest €7.8 billion ($8.47bn) in its sovereign cloud infrastructure in Germany through 2040. The Sovereign Cloud region will be AWS' first and located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is expected to launch by the end of 2025. “This investment reinforces our...
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May 17, 2024 Crown Castle
Proxy firm Glass Lewis has publicly urged Crown Castle shareholders to vote for two activist director candidates, including the company's co-founder and former chief executive officer, Ted Miller, to the board, along with former CFO Charles Green. Furthermore, Glass Lewis also told shareholders...
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May 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been selected to host O2 Telefónica Germany's 5G Standalone (5G SA) network as the telco confirmed that it has launched its 5G Cloud Core, built entirely in the cloud, using technology from vendors Nokia and AWS. “We are building our network of the future. With the...
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May 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon has revealed plans to develop data centers at a renewable energy business park in County Offaly, Ireland.AWS will become the first business to develop at the Bord na Móna Eco Energy Park in County Offaly, where it will leverage the energy produced by Bord na Móna's renewable developments...
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April 29, 2024 Equinix
Colocation firm Equinix has signed long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Singapore fromSembcorp Industries. Following the agreements, Sembcorp Power will supply a maximum capacity of 75MWp from its solar assets and 30MW from its gas-power generation portfolio...
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April 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set for an annualized revenue run rate of $100 billion as its first quarter has seen revenue of $25 billion, representing Year-on-Year (YoY) revenue growth of 17.2 percent, up from 13.2 percent in Q4 of 2023. CEO Andy Jassy told investors during the earnings call:...
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April 25, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is behind a planned data center in Indiana. The state overnor Eric J. Holcomb this week announced plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus in north central Indiana – the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana’s history....
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April 22, 2024 Crown Castle
Tower company Crown Castle recently revealed that it has been in talks with multiple parties regarding its fiber business in recent months. Miller, who was the company's CEO until 2001, wants to sell the fiber business and has previously said the assets could fetch as much as $15 billion. "The...
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April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...
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April 09, 2024 Crown Castle
Crown Castle has announced Steven J. Moskowitz as president and CEO, bringing an end to Crown Castle's search for a successor to former CEO Jay Brown, who announced his departure in December. Anthony Melone acted as interim CEO from January 16, 2024. “I have long admired Crown Castle’s quality...
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April 05, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a cloud-based rendering service called Deadline Cloud which will enable users to deploy and scale up graphics and handle visual effects (VFX) rendering on AWS cloud infrastructure. This rendering service is aimed at customers in media and entertainment, and...
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