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The Co-operative Bank migrates IT infrastructure to AWS

The Co-operative Bank is migrating its applications from on-premise environments to Amazon Web Services, selecting IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl to aid with the migration and hopes that the move to AWS will reduce ongoing costs and improve service delivery for both employees and...

December 14, 2024

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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

Microsoft Azure

Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...

December 12, 2024

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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 12, 2024

Microsoft Azure

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

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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

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Equinix signs new PPA in Singapore

Equinix has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sembcorp Power for 58.5MW of power which is tol be delivered from a solar installation on 60 hectares of vacant land and the rooftops of five JTC Corporation buildings, including the Jurong Rock Caverns above-ground facilities and Jurong...

December 04, 2024

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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

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Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Germany

Mercury delivers Equinix's FR13 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Located within Equinix’s Frankfurt North-East campus, the facility spans 5,295 sqm (57,000 sq ft) with a total capacity of 7.75MW across two data halls on three floors. “The expansion of our North-East campus with FR13 is key t...

November 30, 2024

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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

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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

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DataBox takes over Digital Realty's cloud service in Croatia

Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the countr...

November 27, 2024

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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

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

Microsoft Azure

Equinix breaks ground on Singapore data center

Equinix this week announced its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) facility in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, the facility will provide liquid cooling capabilities to support high-density workloads. Yee May Leong, managing director, Singapore,...

November 26, 2024

Equinix

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Azure

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...

November 08, 2024

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