On Wednesday, in a statement Zoom Video Communications Inc stated, it would expand its footprint in Singapore by opening a research and development centre; it also plans on hiring hundreds of engineers for its new office premise. Zoom also plans on doubling its data centre capacity in Singapore. It launched its first data centre in…
Buenos Aires is also the location where AWS opened its office in 2018. According to a provincial bulletin dated Oct. 24, Argentina has allowed Amazon.com Inc’s Web Services division AWS to build an $800-million data facility in Buenos Aires. The data center will be built in a free trade area in Rosales near the port…
As per a source Nvidia has outbid Intel Corp for Mellanox. The deal assumes strategic importance since it will reduce Nvidia’s dependency on the gaming industry for its revenues. As per a source familiar with the matter at hand, Nvidia Corp is close to acquiring Mellanox Technologies Ltd for more than $7 billion. The potential…
Qatar will be Microsoft’s foothold in the Gulf for expanding its Azure cloud platform in the Middle East. Qatar’s state news agency QNA has reported that Doha’s cabinet has approved the establishment of a Microsoft global data center in the country. In 2018, Microsoft had announced plans to expand its Azure, cloud platform to the…
Google is beefing up its presence in Denmark. This development marks the second purchase of a plot by Google in as many years. On Tuesday, the Danish unit of Alphabet Inc’s Google announced, it plans on investing $690 million (4.5 billion Danish crowns) to build a new data center in Fredericia, Denmark. The announcement comes…
The expansion comes midst increased demand for cloud and mobile computing and e-commerce from countries across Asia. On Thursday, Facebook disclosed it would sink in more than $1 billion in its first data center in Asia which will be located in Singapore. It is slated to open in 2022. Facebook’s data center will be located…
A routine maintenance led to the payment processing issues at Australia’s Central Bank. On Thursday, Australia’s central bank stated, an internal power failure caused by the maintenance of its fire control systems as the cause of its Sydney data center inability to process some payments. Although the outage lasted only 3 hours, according to representatives…
Data centers are set to be key engines for growth in an increasingly digital world. On Saturday, the Nikkei, a Japanese news daily has reported, Mitsubishi Corp, a Japanese trading house, plans on setting up a joint venture with Digital Realty Trust, a U.S. data center operator, to bold 10 data centers in Japan by…
It was a human element and not an equipment failure, as earlier thought. On Friday, the Times has reported that last week’s chaotic scene at British Airways was caused by a contractor who inadvertently switched-off the power supply at one of its data centre. The innocent mistake knocked out its computer systems and left 75,000…
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