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US DISA unveils Five-year strategy

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its updated strategy for the next five years which will align the IT service provider of the Department of Defense (DoD) with the 2022 National Defense Strategy.“As a combat support agency and the premier IT service provider for the...

May 01, 2024

United States

Eviden launches new server line

Atos-owned Eviden has announced a new server line called BullSequana AI product line. This product line includes five AI server models that the company says have been optimized for AI workloads, all offering different levels of performance, scalability, and flexibility, depending on customers’...

May 01, 2024

United States

SES to acquire rival satellite operator Intelsat for $3.1 billion

European satellite firm SES is set to acquire Virginia-based Intelsat via 100 percent of the equity of Intelsat Holdings S.a.r.l. for a cash consideration of €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) and certain contingent value rights. The companies said the partnership will create a “stronger multi-orbit ...

April 30, 2024

United States

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI En...

April 29, 2024

Austin

SES unveils new satellite service

SES this week announced that it has launched its O3b mPower satellite connectivity service and will be deploying it worldwide. SES will be introducing services in the coming months to O3b mPower customers to deliver reliable connectivity services ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits ...

April 25, 2024

United States

Danfoss selects HPE GreenLake for cloud Services

Danish engineering group Danfoss has selected HPE GreenLake for SAP S/4HANA Cloud at all it’s data centers for its cloud journey. It is now a joint offering from HPE and SAP and aims to bring SAP workloads to private cloud environments.“We have selected RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake not only...

April 25, 2024

United States

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and ope...

April 24, 2024

California

WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services

The World Squash Federation (WSF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud for cloud and AI technologies and is now set to use Alibaba's cloud computing to augment content, management and commercialization. WSF will also use the cloud provider's platform to develop a squash ...

April 23, 2024

United States

United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon

United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise.The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great op...

April 22, 2024

United States

Zuckerberg says energy constraints are hindering AI data center buildout

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest blockers to building out AI data centers as he echoed industry commentary on the challenges of building larger and larger data centers."Over the last few years, there's been this issue of GPU production," he said. "Even ...

April 19, 2024

United States

T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

T-Mobile announced that it has completed its 5G network upgrades in Louisiana, a multi-year investment totaling $290 million, including $50m towards an upgrade in its 5G service in the Greater New Orleans area. The company notes that the expansion provides access to 5G ultra capacity coverage ...

April 19, 2024

Louisiana

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

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...

April 17, 2024

Georgia

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

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...

April 17, 2024

United States

Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing

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...

April 17, 2024

United States

Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer

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...

April 16, 2024

New Mexico

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

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...

April 15, 2024

United States

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

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...

April 15, 2024

Texas

Blackstone purchases majority stake in Winthrop Technologies

US private equity firm Blackstone has bought a majority stake in data center engineering firm Winthrop Technologies. Financial details of this deal have not been shared. However, reports have it that Blackstone took a 50,5 percent stake, previously valued at over €800 million. The remaining ...

April 12, 2024

United States

Rapidus forms new US subsidiary

Semiconductor manufacturing company Rapidus has formed a US subsidiary, Rapidus Design Solutions (RDS), is opening an office in Santa Clara, California, and appointed Henri Richard as president and general manager of the US organization. The company works with IBM on the development of 2nm chi...

April 12, 2024

United States

Vultr unveils private cloud offering

Cloud hosting firm Vultr has launched a new sovereign and private cloud offering as a response to the increased importance of digital sovereignty, and the need to reduce reliance on hyperscalers. This new offering which was made available from April 10 shortly follows the release of Vultr Clou...

April 10, 2024

United States

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