LOCALS WITHDRAW OBJECTIONS California-based Nautilus, has finally gotten approval to develop a floating data center in Limerick Docks, Ireland, after local opponents withdrew their objections. The company had launched a waterborne data center prototype on a barge at the Mare…
GDIT GETS 10-YEAR DoD CONTRACT US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded its Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). This $7.6 billion contract is put up by US military to run its classified, secret…
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE DRAGGED YEAR RESULT Australian data center operator NextDC, has awarded the contract for the construction of its 20MW hyperscale data center P2, to Multiplex. Located in Perth, the new hyperscale facility P2; will now have its first stage…
OVERCOMING LAND CONSTRAINTS Keppel Data Centres has disclosed its plans to float a data center off the coast of Singapore. This will overcome land scarcity on the Island. The company claims that floating a data center will also be significantly…
EXPERIENCING UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH Data center provider and operator T5 Data Centers, has revealed that the company plans to expand its staff from approximately 150 to over 400 by end of year. As announced, the company is experiencing unprecedented growth this…
LAUNCHES 2 REGIONS, 31 EDGEs, 14 MEET-MEs The cloud arm of the tech giant Microsoft, has just announced the opening of its new Switzerland cloud regions and the global addition of 31 new Azure edge sites. The new cloud datacenter…
AMAZON SEEM TO BE INTERESTED The government of Israel has taken a further step in its plans to develop a major regional cloud facility and this project is already attracting the world’s cloud giants. Under Israel’s Finance ministry, the Government…
VMWARE Q2 REVENUE ALSO AT $2.44B Cloud software giant VMware, has announced entering a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud-native platform provider Pivotal Software, and cloud-native security firm Carbon Black for approximately $5 billion. This announcement which was made alongside…
STARTS CONSTRUCTION IN FEW MONTHS Microsoft has acquired a 120,000 hectares of land in Staffanstorp, a municipality located outside of Malmo in southern Sweden. This recent property was bought from Kilen Krysset, a private real-estate firm. Although the cost and…
COLEMAN ALSO WORKED WITH YAHOO Aligned Energy, a data center provider based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has just appointed Michael Coleman, as its Global Head of Design and Delivery. Prior to joining Aligned, Coleman served as Head of…
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