Huawei set to launch its first African cloud data center Huawei – a Chinese IT giant has announced the launch date for its cloud data centers in Cape Town, South Africa. The opening which is their first in Africa is…
Microsoft Azure, the first Kubernetes provider in China’s Mainland The Tech giant – Microsoft, announced on Tuesday, that the Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) is now in china and is undergoing a private preview in Azure China. Sean McKenna, Principal Program…
Workday goes live on AWS It was a plan between Amazon Web Services and Workday on 16 November 2016 when it was announced that Workday had selected AWS as its public cloud infrastructure, Today (November 14, 2018) – it becomes…
SAP buy Qualtrics for $8 billion SAP and Qualtrics on Monday announced they have entered into an agreement under which SAP is to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion (USD). At this amount, SAP will acquire all outstanding shares of Qualtrics.…
UK Cloud Infrastructure spend surpassed IT spend Cloud infrastructure spending has surpassed spending on-premises IT infrastructure in UK-based organizations as reported by the Cloud Industry Forum, last week, that was based on a survey handled by Vanson Bourne. Some of…
Google’s data-transfer appliance hits beta in Europe Google’s data-transfer appliance hits beta in Europe This announcement goes along with their ‘Transfer Appliance’ project they had announced last year, which consists on transferring data from a company’s data centers to Google’s…
Second Amazon Location Confirmed as HQ2 The new Amazon US headquarters could be located in Northern Virginia, reported The Washington Post. The project is going by the name of “HQ2”, this is because it would be the second location of…
Modular Uptime Approved DCs from Schneider The critical infrastructure specialist, Schneider Electric company has recently launched a range of power modules, that look like containers, for data center owners and operators, who are looking for modular construction methods to improve…
NextGen DC from Microsoft This project started on the fact that half of the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the coast, and building data centers closer to people’s homes would deliver low latency data to users, which is…
Cisco Promise 400G Network in 2019 The Cisco announcement is the third one to be done in the past few months. The companies Juniper and Arista both made the commitment to the technology switches that would be capable of supporting…
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