Brexit might not be all its bigged up to be – Equinix
With Brexit chat flying back and forth across the English Channel, London might be a dirty word, but that hasn’t stopped it from charging ahead of interconnection trends.
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AI is a $200bn opportunity, and Intel has already grabbed $1bn of it
The newly emerging artificial intelligence market will be a money-maker, that is no secret, though Intel appears to have taken an early march on the prospering technology.
Google looks for help scaling the Great Firewall amid political posturing
Google’s cloud business unit is reportedly in talks with Tencent, Inspur and other domestic companies in an effort to launch services in the lucrative Chinese market.
Microsoft sinks casually drops data centre into the North Sea
Microsoft’s Project Natick is entering into its second phase of development, and actually sinking a data centre 117 feet into the North Sea, a couple of miles off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Cloud fuels Amazon, Microsoft and Intel, but best is yet to come
The quarterly results from Amazon, Microsoft and Intel show profits are certainly in the cloud, but with 5G just around the corner this might only be the start of a cloud renaissance.
Apple flexes its green muscles
Apple has claimed it is now globally powered by 100% clean energy, as it brings another nine of its suppliers onto the green mission.
Intel’s Krzanich does this best duck impression
Intel might be fighting back the flames of the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws, but CEO Brian Krzanich has done his best to put on a calm front for investors during the latest earnings call.
Soon there will be another cable populating the subsea superhighway
China Telecom, China Unicom, Facebook, Tata Communications, and Telstra have all teamed up to sign a turnkey contract for the deployment of the Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) submarine cable network.
Google ups investment in cloud infrastructure
Google has started 2018 by splashing the cash on its cloud infrastructure business, with five new data centres to add to the map and three subsea cables.
Intel’s Spectre and Meltdown headaches continue
Meltdowns, suspect share dealing and class-action suits, it’s been an interesting 2018 for Intel so far, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better quickly.
Apple chases $200 million tax incentives with Iowa datacentre
It was a promise on the campaign trail from President Trump, and at least this one is coming true. Apple has been teased into opening a data centre on US soil with the promise of $207.8 million in tax incentives.
Verizon and Amazon data security story full of holes
Verizon is doing its best impression of Swiss cheese, as one of its partners left sensitive information on up to 14 million customers on an unsecured Amazon database for a week after being notified.
Nvidia jumps in at the deep end with Baidu AI partnership
If Nvidia is looking to make a splash in the world of artificial intelligence it’s going about it in the right way, announcing a partnership with Baidu, one of the world’s largest internet companies.
Verizon sale to Equinix offers hints at refocused strategy
Equinix has announced the completion of its acquisition of 29 data centres and their operations from Verizon Communications, adding weight to its North American standing.
More smartphone users than people with running water in 2021 – Cisco
Cisco has released its annual report predicting the growth of global mobile data traffic will increase seven-fold over the next five years.
Google case reignites data privacy controversy after contradictory ruling
A Philadelphia-based Judge has ordered Google to hand over emails stored in a non-US data centre to the FBI, despite an Appeals Court in New York striking down a similar case for Microsoft.
Alibaba earnings show its more than just an online bargain hunter’s paradise
Alibaba has released its quarterly earnings for the period ending December 31, showing the company is more than just an eCommerce giant.
BT sort of addresses security concerns with Trend Micro tie-up
BT has announced the immediate availability of Trend Micro’s Deep Security data centre solution on its cloud compute platform, but does that actually answer the question of security?
UK data centre tax farce ensnares opportunistic celebs
HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of clawing back a couple of million quid after a handful of celebrities got caught up in a suspect tax relief scheme to build data centres in the North East.
AWS data centres launch implies all is not well following Brexit
Amazon Web Services has announced a new availability zone in London which indicates all is not well in the UK following Brexit.
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