Everybody who’s anybody has a cloud in Germany
With Rackspace’s new data centre announcement this week, Germany is slowly positioning itself as the it-place for cloud companies worldwide.
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IBM triples data centre capacity in UK
IBM has announced it will triple its cloud footprint in the UK opening four new data centres across the course of 2017.
AWS melts Glacier prices to continue race to the bottom
AWS is the undisputed leader in the public cloud computing rankings and the latest price drops in S3 and Glacier offerings will up the pressure on the chasing pack.
Broadcom reportedly mulling over Brocade purchase
Brocade is reportedly on the verge of a sale with chipmaker Broadcom apparently one of the interested parties.
Intel, Uber and Volvo hit top gear in drive for autonomous vehicles
Intel, Uber and Volvo have announced new initiatives as momentum towards self-driving vehicles begins to accelerate.
Intel sets its crosshairs on artificial intelligence
Intel has set its targets on the world of artificial intelligence, as it continues to bolster its armoury to capitalize on the potentially lucrative IoT segment.
Intel acquisition of Nervana shows AI is the real-deal
Virtual reality may well have been capturing the imagination of the industry in recent months, but Intel’s $400 million of AI start-up Nervana highlights it’s not all fun and games.
Salesforce buys Coolan to help keep its data centres running
Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire data analysis specialist Coolan, following numerous data centre outages in recent months.
Data centres fuel Intel growth despite PC decline
Intel has reported 3% growth, including a 5% boost in its data centre business, though the client computing unit continues its slow decline.
Microsoft continues cloud transformation with 100% Azure growth
Microsoft has reported 5% revenue growth to $22.6 billion as the Intelligent Cloud business unit led the charge, with the Azure cloud offering more than doubling in revenues and compute usage.
Oracle opens up Japanese cloud connection with Fujitsu
Oracle and Fujitsu have announced a partnership to deliver Oracle cloud application and platform services to Japanese customers.
Equinix sells off 8 data centres for $874m
Equinix has announced the sale of eight data centres across Europe to Digital Realty Trust for approximately $874 million.
NEC, Google and friends enter FASTER trans-Pacific cable into service
A consortium of tech giants including Google and NEC has completed the construction and end-to-end testing of a new trans-Pacific submarine cable system.
Data centre consolidation as Cavium acquires QLogic for $1.36 billion
US data centre chip maker Cavium is to acquire networking infrastructure company QLogic to drive scale in the data centre and storage markets.
Verizon deploys NFV OpenStack across five data centres
Verizon has completed the launch of its NFV OpenStack cloud deployment project across five of its US data centres, alongside Big Switch Networks, Dell and Red Hat – according to BCN.
Ericsson snaps up NodePrime for SDI acceleration
Ericsson has announced the total acquisition of data centre management platform NodePrime in a bit to drive its software defined networking and infrastructure capabilities.
Telstra wraps up Pacnet acquisition
The Telstra/Pacnet acquisition story which broke towards the end of last year has now come to fruition, with the Australian telco today announcing the completed acquisition of the Cloud, managed services and data centre provider. As reported by Telecoms.com in December, the valuation of the deal came in at $697 million.
AT&T says it is on track with SDN 2020 plan
Telecoms.com caught up with AT&T’s Chief Marketing Officer of Business Solutions, Steve McGaw, at Mobile World Congress 2015 to discuss the US operator’s biggest focus areas, particularly on the enterprise side. The telco said it is on track with its plan to transform the large majority of its network to software-defined by 2020.
Telstra confirms discussions over Pacnet acquisition
Australia’s former state-owned telco, Telstra, has confirmed discussions are underway over a potential acquisition of data centre and undersea cable operator Pacnet. At this stage, the cost of any possible transaction has not been announced.
Alcatel-Lucent’s SDN subsidiary confirms cloud data centre implementation
Alcatel-Lucent’s software defined networking (SDN) specialist subsidiary, Nuage Networks, has announced that it will be providing its Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) to global hosting firm OVH. The deployment of VSP across data centres across Europe and North America will deliver “OpenStack as a Service” to OVH.
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