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Ericsson reports sales drop due to declining network business

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 ...

April 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system

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...

April 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Viasat launches new headquarters in 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...

April 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers

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...

April 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Eviden to provide upgrade to supercomputer in Brazil

Eviden this week announced that it has signed a new $19.4 million contract with Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, aka Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) to extend the compute capacity of its Santos Dumont supercomputer. “We're thrilled to continue our lo...

April 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

Catholic University of Chile launches new supercomputer

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) has installed the new Geryon 3 supercomputer in a 36 sqm (387 sq ft) room at the UC Institute of Astrophysics in Santiago. "To complement our observational capabilities, we will need a strong group of theorists who can help interpret the ...

April 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chile

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

European Union criticized for new cloud contract bidding rules

European countries including Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Airbus, and 15 others, have criticized the latest draft of the European Union's cybersecurity certification scheme (CCS), which they claim will make it easier for hyperscalers to bid for EU cloud computing contracts. The US tech giants inc...

April 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Quinbrook to start work on Australia data center

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced that it is set to start work on a AU$2.5 billion ($1.7bn) data center campus in Queensland, Australia. The first phase of development at the campus, known as Supernode, will see a 250MW battery energy storage system (BESS) installed at the site. ...

April 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winnin...

April 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS) this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of par...

April 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

T-Systems to manage mainframe infrastructure for KMD

T-Systems has been selected to operate the mainframe infrastructure of Danish IT service provider KMD from 2025 in a contract which is the largest the company has won yet in Denmark. While T-Systems handles the operation and maintenance of KMD's mainframes, KMD will be able to focus on develop...

April 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Meta shares details of upgraded MTIA AI chips

Meta has shared details about the next generation of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), custom-made chips designed for specific Meta AI workloads. The company said the latest version of its chips shows significant performance improvements over the MTIA v1 and is already being ...

April 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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