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Microsoft launches New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval...

December 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft launches New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval...

December 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Meta & QTS sign solar PPA in Oregon

Avangrid and Portland General Electric (PGE) have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with QTS and Meta for energy from a 120MW solar energy project under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. This project will deliver energy to the PGE grid through the Green Future Impact (GFI) program, ...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Veon's Kyivstar launches Gen AI lab in Ukraine

Veon's Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar has this week announced the launch of a generative AI lab in partnership with Amazon Web Services. According to the company, the purpose of the launch is to support Ukrainian enterprises in introducing AI technologies, as part of an effort to boost the coun...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS unveils S3 storage classes for Dedicated Local Zones

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage offering is now available via AWS Dedicated Local Zones, one of its on-premise cloud offerings. At the company's Re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS also revealed new S3 solutions: S3 Tables and S3 Metadata. The storage classes are designed to store data within ...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS launches EC2 UltraServers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching EC2 instances featuring the latest Nvidia GPUs and Trainium chips. At this week's Re:Invent event in Las Vegas, the cloud giant revealed plans for its Trainium3 chip after unveiling the EC2 during a keynote speech by CEO Matt Garman. Garman revealed three...

December 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

BBC undergoes cloud migration to AWS

The UK's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is undergoing a cloud migration as it revealed plans to move its IT systems including finance, HR, and procurement to RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The BBC hopes that moving its IT systems to the cloud will be more cost-effective th...

November 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Royal Philips and AWS expand partnership for cloud migration

Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud will be expanded including radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and AI-advanced visualized solutions.“The collaboration between Philips and...

November 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS partners with SSAB for green steel at Swedish data center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for t...

November 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft plans two data centers outside Cologne

Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program. The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg, two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district."The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is ...

November 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Coles Group and Microsoft sign five-year cloud

Aussie retailer Coles Group has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Coles will be using Microsoft's cloud, AI, and Edge computing offerings to develop an AI-as-a-Service platform and to modernize its IT estate. The agreement is ho...

November 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This i...

November 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will lik...

November 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

November 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was ...

November 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

November 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

October 31, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Professional services firm TMF Group which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

October 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

October 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Ansys and TSMC to partner with Microsoft for silicon photonic simulations

Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The ...

October 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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