ARVIND KRISHNA AND JAMES WHITEHURST TO LEAD IBM Also known as Big Blue, IBM has appointed Arvind Krishna as its new CEO. He will be taking over from Ginni Rometty who has handled this role for about 8 years. Arvind…
ACQUIRED A 225-ACRE LAND Compass Datacenters has started the construction of its second data center campus, which is located near Interstate 35E in Red Oak, south of Dallas, Texas. The hyperscale data center is to seat on a 225-acre land…
A DATA CENTER HUB IN TORONTO Global cloud service provider iland, has just announced a new cloud region in Canada with the opening of its data center facility in Toronto, Ontario. The new data center infrastructure marks the company’s 10th…
AP-OSAKA-1 IS NOW OPEN The cloud giant Oracle, has announced the opening of its new cloud region in Osaka, Japan. This facility is the company’s second cloud region in the country. Oracle specifically announced its plan to setup this Osaka…
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM’S CLOUD DATA CENTER T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom has announced that it is working on the development of a second European Open Telekom Cloud infrastructure in Amsterdam. The German global IT services and consulting company is collaborating…
$1.5B DATA CENTER EXPANSION SETS FOR INDIA Japanese networking giant and global data center provider NTT, has officially launched its new NTT Global Data Centers division after consolidating its affiliates under the NTT brand name. Last year, the company brought…
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…
T5 EXPANDS CHICAGO FOOTPRINT T5 Data Centers has announced the expansion of its Chicago footprint with the acquisition of a data center located near its existing facilities in the Elk Grove Technology Park in Illinois. The newly acquired 164,000 square…
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…
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