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Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has appointed Bimal Khandelwal as the new CEO of its India business. He has previously served as the CFO for STT GDC India. Prior to that, he worked in the telecoms, financial services, and IT sectors, including at Tata Teleservices. He is to succeed ...

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

Lenovo has launched a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering designed to help customers bring artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on-premises, Lenovo has added GPUaaS to its subscription-based infrastructure model, TruScale. The company also added automation, predictive analytics, and generativ...

Orange Business has completed the first phase of data center infrastructure in Egypt's New Administrative Capital for Grifols Egypt for Plasma Derivatives (GEPD) and  is providing communications infrastructure for GEPD in the Medical City within the New Capital, a satellite city of Cairo. GEPD...

Microsoft has purchased 234,000 carbon removal credits from Toroto, a Mexican business that specializes in nature-based solutions that improve the environment. These credits represent the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and are issued under the Climate Action Reserve Mexico Fores...

 Television and film production company Khara Inc. has migrated its operations and 500TB of archival data from on-premises storage to Wasabi Technologies cloud storage. According to the company, the migration has saved Khara around 80 percent in management and operations costs related to the d...

Anduril, a defense technology company, will be deploying Lattice on Oracle Cloud Isolated and National Security Regions - air-gapped cloud infrastructure - as well as Oracle Cloud Regions, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, and Oracle Government Clouds in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United ...

AT&T workers continue to strike across nine Southeastern states. In a recent development, the company's employees in the West have also rejected its tentative agreement which might lead to an additional 8,400 employees joining the strike. Over 17,000 workers have taken industrial action ag...

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has revealed plans to invest more than $300 million to establish a fabless chip company in India  at the inaugural Semicon India 2024. Sandeep Kumar, CEO of the newly formed L&T Semiconductor Technologies, said the company plans to design 1...

German chipmaker Infineon has successfully developed the world’s first 300mm power gallium nitride (GaN) wafers which will help to boost the market for GaN-based power chips as the 300mm wafers are “technologically more advanced and significantly more efficient” when compared to 200mm wafers.“...

Karis Critical has approached Merrillville about building a data center campus in the Lake County town and the Town Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to approve zoning that would allow a data center to be built at the site. The campus set on a 180-acre site on 101st Avenue east of Deep River, could to...

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with renewable energy firm X-Elio to offtake from X-Elio’s 128MW Bell Solar PV Plant. The site will also include a 100MW battery energy storage system to provide energy demand support on a 24/7 basis.Mirko Molinari, CCO of X-Elio, said: “The P...

 OpenAI has disbanded its Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads which was formed less than a year ago. Todd Underwood who was hired to lead the team  spent 14 years and nine months at Google, where he created the machine learning SRE group, and co-authore...

Chip and artificial intelligence (AI) model developer SambaNova Systems has launched an AI cloud offering using the SN40L AI chip. The SambaNova cloud can be accessed by developers via an API and create their own generative AI applications using the open-source Llama 3.1 405B and Llama 3.1 70B...

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

Oracle and Google Cloud this week announced that the Database@Google Cloud is available in four regions in the US and Europe. The solution is now available from Google Cloud data center regions including US East (Ashburn, Virginia), US West (Salt Lake City, Utah), UK South (London), and German...

SiMa.ai has launched MLSoC Modalix, a multi-modal, software-centric Edge AI chip for its embedded Edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) offering. MLSoC Modalix is the second generation of SiMa’s MLSoC and it supports CNNs, transformers, LLMs, LMMs, and generative AI at the Edge, reporte...

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key connec...

A fire at a Digital Realty data center in Singapore has continued into its second day. The fire alarm was triggered at its SIN11 data center at 7.45am local time yesterday, September 10. By 8.04pm local time, Alibaba, which runs some of its cloud service from the data center, said that, though...