Data Center News

Reka selects OCI to support its AI models

Oracle

Reka, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and product company, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its AI models and will use it to create multimodal models that will support over 20 languages and are trained on OCI AI Infrastructure based on Nvidia GPUs."We are part...

Team Global Express moves to cloud with Infosys

Australia

Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites.Danny Gravell, CIO...

Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Edge Centres

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber  (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network.“With the introduction of Edge data center...

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Georgia

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

Ericsson reports sales drop due to declining network business

Europe

Ericsson has reported a decline of 14 percent year-on-year in organic revenues for the first quarter of 2024, posting a revenue of  $4.88 billion. The company blamed this decline largely on a significant slump in its network business, with this division declining 19 percent YoY, to $3.1bn.The ...

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

United States

Managed services provider CGI confirmed earlier this month that it has begun the first part of its network fiber deployment in Alaska, installing approximately 45 miles of fiber over the frozen tundra between Eek and Napaskiak. This is part of a project between Bethel Native Corporation and GC...

Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing

United States

Akamai has launched a media-optimized cloud offering for video processing,  based on Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs which have been selected for their ability to process video content more efficiently and effectively.“Media companies need low-latency, reliable compute resources that maint...

Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions,  is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...

IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle

Oracle

IHH Healthcare (IHH) has migrated its workloads to Oracle's cloud offerings. Its Singapore operations will be moved to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. On the other hand, its Malaysia branch has opted to migrate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, one of Oracle's o...

Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle

Oracle

Singapore and Malaysia-based insurance group Great Eastern has migrated 300 on-premise databases to on-premise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. The company has currently  moved 200 terabytes from 300 on-premise Oracle databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer while still housed in ...

Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system

Australia

Cooling company Accelsius, which provides two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, this week officially announced the launch of its new two-phase cooling system, NeuCool, its in-rack solution. The company says NeuCool offers capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server c...

Macquire DC acquires new campus in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres

Australia's Macquarie Data Centres this week announced that it will be acquiring its existing Macquarie Park data center campus from Singapore's Keppel DC REIT. The companies have entered into a binding agreement which will see Macquarie acquire the existing Intellicentre 2 and Intellicentre 3...

Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer

New Mexico

The Venado supercomputer has been launched at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a system which consists of 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips; 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, each of which contains 144 Arm cores; and is networked with HPE Slingshot 11 interconnec...

Virgin Media O2 to use starlink satellites for network connectivity in rural areas

Virgin Media Business

Virgin Media O2 said in anew announcement that it will use Starlink satellites to provide network connectivity in remote rural areas of the UK to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout. The company has already deployed its Starlink mobile backhaul to some of its most remote sites in...

JPMorgan Chase plans to host 75% of data in cloud this year

United States

Financial services firm JPMorgan Chase revealed its plans get 75 percent of its data and 70 percent of its applications into the cloud within 2024 in a letter from CEO Jamie Dimon to JPMorgan's shareholders.The company which stands as the world’s gifts largest bank by revenue told it’s shareho...

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

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...

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Texas

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers

United Kingdom

NTT has conducted low-latency data center-to-data center light-based photonics tests in the UK and US, claiming latency of less than 1 millisecond between facilities almost 90km apart.  In the UK, two data centers around 100 km apart communicated via IOWN APN connection with a round trip of 1...