NEW GEN 2 CLOUD REGION IN MONTREAL Oracle Corp. has just announced its new Cloud region in Montreal, Canada, making the country its latest location which offers dual cloud regions. The first Oracle Gen 2 Cloud region in the country…
CLOUD AND 5G CONNECTIVITY Microsoft has signed a definitive agreement to acquire US-based virtualized mobile network company Affirmed Networks to strengthen its 5G cloud offerings. According to Microsoft, the acquisition of Affirmed will provide an advancement in its 5G network…
MEETING THE SURGE IN DEMANDS Amazon Web Services (AWS) has submitted an application to build three new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, and looks forward to fast-track the approval. Totaling about 300,000 square feet, the three data centers…
LAUNCHES UK-HEADQUARTERED CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION Japanese global data center provider NTT Ltd, has just completed the shell of its second building within its Munich 2 (MUC2) data center campus, Bavaria. Once the facility is fully built and goes online as…
1,248 EMPLOYEES NOW AT RISK IBM is on the verge of laying-off up to 263 employees in its UK Global Technology Services (GTS) division, placing a total of 1,248 employees at the risk of losing their jobs. Recently, the company…
AN AMSTERDAM FACILITY FOR €11.55M European investment and asset management group Avignon Capital has acquired a data center in Amsterdam for €11.55 million ($12.7 million). The facility purchased by the London-based firm is a 7,450 square meter building which is…
MORE TIME TO PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES Co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, has just stepped down from the company’s Board of Directors, as well as leaves the board of Berkshire Hathaway. Gates was CEO until 2000 and handed over the role to…
UK GOVERNMENT PLANS 2% TAX The UK HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) tax office has confirmed the government’s plan to introduce a Digital Services Tax from next month on all UK and foreign companies. This implies that tech companies…
THE BIGGEST DATA CENTRE IN WALES Next Generation Data (NGD), a UK based data center service provider is facing opposition from residents towards its South Wales data center expansion plans. The current facility is a key Welsh data center and…
QATAR APPROVES ITS FIRST GCP REGION Google has announced plans to develop four new cloud regions in Delhi, India; Doha, Qatar; Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada. These new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions are to join the previously announced projects…
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