EXPECTED TO OPEN IN 2021 Microsoft has announced its plans to launch its first cloud region in Israel, starting with the construction of a data center to serve customers’ data residency needs. In compliance with the European Union General Data…
PHASE I IS PLANNED FOR 2021 Chinese data center developer and operator GDS Holdings Ltd, has signed a definitive legal agreement through its subsidiary to acquire a data center site in Shanghai for ¥1.37 billion (approx. $200 million). The 212,000…
WILJAR NESSE SUCCEEDS GISLE M. ECKHOFF Nordic data center firm DigiPlex, has just appointed Wiljar Nesse as its new Chief Executive Officer starting on March 1, 2020. Nesse was the Executive Vice President of financial services at IT software and…
A DATA CENTER AND CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM Orange Egypt has just signed an agreement with the Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) to build, operate and maintain a data center and cloud computing platforms. The facility will be built in…
ADVANIA TAKES OVER ACCOUNTOR ICT Nordics data center services firm Advania has announced the acquisition of Accountor ICT, an infrastructure and cloud services company in Finland. Accountor ICT is a subsidiary of Accountor Group which is carrying out this divestment…
AXTEL BECOMES A MARKETING PARTNER Global interconnection and data center company Equinix, has just announced the completion of the three Axtel data centers acquisition deal in Mexico. The three data centers serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of…
THE £500,000 TENDER IS STILL OPEN Located in the southwest of England, University of Plymouth is seeking to relocate its data center out of a science and engineering building upon upgrades of its infrastructure. The current data center infrastructure is…
ORIGINALLY VALUED AT $3.4 MILLION The cloud giant Amazon, has just acquired an empty site in Loudoun County, Virginia, for the development of a new data center. Although a portion was used as a vegetative waste facility for mulch, the…
EXPANDING PUBLIC CLOUD CONNECTIVITY Cloud and edge service provider G-Core Labs, has opened a new point-of-presence (PoP) for its network infrastructure in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located in a Tier III data center, the new PoP promises access to dedicated servers…
100+ DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDERS ENROLLED To start the year, Singapore has today kicked-off its goods and services tax (GST) extension to now include overseas digital services such as, cloud storage, media subscription, and mobile apps. The GST extension implies that…
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