A 64000SF UNDERGROUND FACILITY Israeli data center company Global Data Center, has announced it plans to build a new $30 million facility in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv. The new infrastructure will be Global Data Center’s second facility and it…
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…
SUSPENDS DATA CENTER EXPANSION Facebook has just suspended construction work at its Clonee data center in Co. Meath, Ireland due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country. The social network company is said to have made this decision with…
PARTNERS WITH TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Equinix has just announced the opening of its fourth data center (SG4) in Singapore, a converted seven-story building located in Tai Seng Industry Estate. With the new data center, the company is providing an initial…
A COURSE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY US-headquartered data center services provider CyrusOne, has announced the launch of its first net-positive water data center campus in Arizona. According to the company, its 57-acre colocation campus in Chandler, Arizona; incorporates proprietary technology that significantly…
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…
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