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Read Kings College Hospital London migrates to Oracle Cloud
Kings College Hospital London migrates to Oracle Cloud

Kings College Hospital London migrates to Oracle Cloud

August 05, 2024 Oracle

Kings College Hospital London in Dubai (KCH Dubai) has migrated its Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and can now be accessed by more than 1,000 concurrent users across KCH Dubai's facilities. Following this migration, the hospital has reportedly seen a...

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Read Oracle adds Nvidia L40S GPU to OCI
Oracle adds Nvidia L40S GPU to OCI

Oracle adds Nvidia L40S GPU to OCI

August 03, 2024 Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has added Nvidia L40S GPU bare-metal instances to its cloud infrastructure, launching them alongside plans for a new virtual machine accelerated by a single Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. OCI will offer the L40S GPUs in its BM.GPU.L40S.4 bare-metal compute offering...

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Read AIS to launch Thailand's first locally-owned cloud with Oracle Alloy
AIS to launch Thailand's first locally-owned cloud with Oracle Alloy

AIS to launch Thailand's first locally-owned cloud with Oracle Alloy

August 02, 2024 Oracle

Thailand-based mobile network operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) is launching a cloud service using Oracle Alloy which it claims will be Thailand's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud, known as AIS Cloud. Somchai Lertsutiwong, chief executive officer, AIS said: "For over 34 years,...

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Read Oracle confirms AI strategy for custom chips
Oracle confirms AI strategy for custom chips

Oracle confirms AI strategy for custom chips

July 28, 2024 Oracle

Jason Rees, SVP of technology and cloud engineering EMEA at Oracle Cloud during a roundtable this week confirmed that Oracle is not currently looking at developing its own custom chips for artificial intelligence (AI). When asked if Oracle was exploring the possibility of developing its own...

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Read Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn
Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn

Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn

July 25, 2024 QTS Data Centers

Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...

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Read Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI to expand Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle
Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI to expand Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI to expand Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle

June 11, 2024 Oracle

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI have revealed plans to expand the Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster, for training AI models. It can scale 64k Nvidia Blackwell GPUs or GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips connected by ultra-low-latency RDMA cluster networking...

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Read Aligned to proceed with stalled data center camps at Maryland
Aligned to proceed with stalled data center camps at Maryland

Aligned to proceed with stalled data center camps at Maryland

May 24, 2024 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has revealed its plans to proceed with its previously halted data center campus in Maryland after recent regulatory changes. around backup generators, easing restrictions for data center firms. With this move, Aligned will now be moving ahead with its plans for a campus in...

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Read NRI deploys Oracle Alloy in its data centers
NRI deploys Oracle Alloy in its data centers

NRI deploys Oracle Alloy in its data centers

May 18, 2024 Oracle

Japan-based Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and will now be able to offer its customers more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their data centers and fully control its operations,...

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Read BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

May 11, 2024 Oracle

Government-owned Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) has equipped its data centers with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region wich can now be used by more than 30 government agencies in Bangladesh while meeting data governance and privacy requirements. Zunaid Ahmed...

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Read Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in dedicated Digital Realty data center
Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in dedicated Digital Realty data center

Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in dedicated Digital Realty data center

May 04, 2024 Oracle

Oracle is set to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data center in Northern Virginia as a part of a collaboration between the two companies to provide artificial intelligence (AI) services for enterprises. Digital Realty’s website notes that the company has 16 data...

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Read Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region
Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region

Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region

May 03, 2024 Oracle

Oracle has announced plans for a second Italian cloud region in partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM), which would be the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, located in Turin at the telco’s data center. Following the agreement, TIM Enterprise will also integrate Oracle...

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Read Conduent and Voya Financial adopt the Oracle Database@Azure
Conduent and Voya Financial adopt the Oracle Database@Azure

Conduent and Voya Financial adopt the Oracle Database@Azure

April 27, 2024 Oracle

Conduent and Voya Financial have joined the list of companies to adopt Oracle Database@Azure to aid their cloud migrations.Oracle Database@Azure is an agreement between Oracle and Microsoft to colocate its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data...

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Read Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan
Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan

Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan

April 22, 2024 Oracle

Fujitsu has selected Oracle Alloy to deploy sovereign cloud services in Japan. Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables other companies to build their own cloud offering. By using Alloy, Fujitsu will expand its Hybrid IT offering Fujitsu Uvance. Fujitsu will deploy and manage...

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Read Reka selects OCI to support its AI models
Reka selects OCI to support its AI models

Reka selects OCI to support its AI models

April 18, 2024 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...

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Read IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle
IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle

IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle

April 17, 2024 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...

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Read Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle
Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle

Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle

April 16, 2024 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 its...

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Read Lumen secures new contract from GAO
Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

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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Read Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas
Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

April 13, 2024 Edged Energy

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas “Sustainability is at the core of our...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing
EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

April 12, 2024 EdgeConneX

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robust...

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Read Oracle and Palantir to team up on cloud and AI solutions
Oracle and Palantir to team up on cloud and AI solutions

Oracle and Palantir to team up on cloud and AI solutions

April 05, 2024 Oracle

Oracle and Palantir are teaming up on secure cloud and AI solutions aimed at governments and businesses globally. They will be combining Oracle's distributed cloud and AI infrastructure with Palantir's AI and decision acceleration platforms. In addition, Palantir will be moving its Foundry...

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