CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United States
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...
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United States
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...
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Colt Data Centre Services
Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions, is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...
Apr 17, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Oracle
IHH Healthcare (IHH) has migrated its workloads to Oracle's cloud offerings. Its Singapore operations will be moved to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. On the other hand, its Malaysia branch has opted to migrate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, one of Oracle's o...
Apr 16, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Macquarie Data Centres
Australia's Macquarie Data Centres this week announced that it will be acquiring its existing Macquarie Park data center campus from Singapore's Keppel DC REIT. The companies have entered into a binding agreement which will see Macquarie acquire the existing Intellicentre 2 and Intellicentre 3...
Apr 16, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | New Mexico
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...
Apr 16, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Oracle
Singapore and Malaysia-based insurance group Great Eastern has migrated 300 on-premise databases to on-premise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. The company has currently moved 200 terabytes from 300 on-premise Oracle databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer while still housed in ...
Apr 16, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Australia
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...
Apr 15, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Virgin Media Business
Virgin Media O2 said in anew announcement that it will use Starlink satellites to provide network connectivity in remote rural areas of the UK to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout. The company has already deployed its Starlink mobile backhaul to some of its most remote sites in...
Apr 15, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Texas
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...
Apr 15, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | 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...
Apr 15, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United States
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...
Apr 15, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...
Apr 13, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Edged Energy
Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas“Sustainability is at the core of our...
Apr 13, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United Kingdom
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...
Apr 12, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
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...
Apr 12, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | EdgeConneX
This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...
Apr 12, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Chile
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 ...
Apr 12, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United States
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 ...