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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

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

April 20, 2024

Prague

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

Team Global Express moves to cloud with Infosys

Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites.Danny Gravell, CIO...

April 18, 2024

Australia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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