The public cloud wilts in the UK heatwave
Google and Oracle both confessed to data centre outages as temperatures hit 40C in the UK yesterday.
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American Tower brings Stonepeak in to $10.5 billion data centre business
American Tower has agreed a multi-billion-dollar deal for a sizeable chunk of its nascent data centre business in the US, bringing in investment firm Stonepeak to help finance future growth.
Data centre spending to increase 61% by 2026 – Dell’Oro
Hyperscalers, with their insatiable appetite for putting everything into the cloud, are expected to drive global data centre spending to new highs.
Deutsche Telekom beefs up public cloud resilience with Amsterdam site
Public cloud is in the same league as water and energy supply in terms of its importance, according to Germany, so DT has just opened two new data centres in Amsterdam.
Telefónica hedges its bets on data centres
Telefónica has brokered a deal that will see it offload four more data centres but pick up a stake in the company acquiring them.
TIM’s new data centres and cloud unit to launch in Q1
TIM’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of the Italian telco’s data centres business into a new company that will start operations in 2021 and is on the look out for external investors.
Chip maker Analog Devices acquires Maxim for $20.9 billion
The all-stock transaction will value Analog Devices at more than $68 billion, though crucially, it offers the firm a bigger footprint in the automotive and data centre semiconductor segments.
Nokia raises its data centre networking game with a new switching platform
The new Nokia Service Router Linux Network Operating System and Fabric Service Platform are designed to help with data centre scalability.
Huawei gets the green light for £1 billion Cambridge R&D centre
Cambridge City Council has officially given Huawei permission to construct a 50,000 sq. meter R&D centre to focus on optoelectronics, serving as the international HQ for the segment.
Microsoft fleshes out its mission to combat COVID-19 impact
Microsoft has not been shy regarding its work to ensure customers can continue to operate through this unforeseen period, and now it has offered more detail.
Nokia gets in bed with Tencent and Baidu cloud business units
Nokia has announced an expanded relationship with two existing customers, to provide data centre interconnect (DCI) network solutions for expanding cloud computing business units.
Tencent carves out $70bn for Chinese cloud expansion
Hong Kong-based Tencent has said it plans to expand its business into cloud computing services, ranging from traditional data centres to enterprise AI services.
KKR sets aside $1bn to muscle in on European data centre market
US investment firm KKR has outlined vague plans to fuel growth in the European data centre market with $1 billion for a build-to-suit and roll-up acquisition data centre platform.
Google Cloud gathers telco momentum with new partnerships
Google Cloud has announced two new partnerships with Telecom Italia, T-Systems and AT&T in an effort to build momentum in the burgeoning enterprise connectivity world.
Microsoft unveils details for Project xCloud public trial
It’s been a year in the making, but Microsoft is going through the final preparations to launch its game-streaming service, Project xCloud.
Intel bags 13% growth but weak forecast angers market
Intel has reported its revenues for 2018, and while executives will be preaching their success the market has reacting very differently.
German regulator effectively confirms IBM/T-Systems talks
As it does from time-to-time, German regulator Bundeskartellamt has published a list of mergers and acquisitions which is evaluating. IBM and T-Systems are lucky enough to make the list.
Huawei launches Kunpeng 920 chip to bag big data and edge computing
Huawei has unveiled a new ARM-based CPU called Kunpeng 920, designed to capitalise on the growing euphoria building around big data, artificial intelligence and edge-computing.
US Senators hit out at India’s pro-privacy and localisation laws
Two US Senators have signed a letter addressed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting new rules to tighten up data practices in the country could lead to a weakened trade relationship with the US.
Samsung looks to reverse mid-year dip with Q3 numbers
Q2 wasn’t exactly a party for Samsung, though it seems ready to correct the dip at the first possible opportunity.
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