Facebook’s Zuckerberg pushes for tech regulation
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook has called on the EU to develop new regulations for tech companies and the way in which they interact with the internet. At the start of the week Zuckerberg took part in a video debate with Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. During which he said that it […]
The digital economy is cleaner than you might think
Carolina Uribe, Energy and Environmental Manager, Telehouse explores the environmental actions taking place in the data centre industry Data centres (DCs) transmit, receive, process, store and manage digital data and by doing so they support different aspects of our modern economy. They have become a vital component in our daily lives, in both the way […]
Raxio Data Centre adds nine local fibre carriers to Uganda DC
Raxio Data Centre has announced the launch of nine points of presence of local fibre carriers at its Namanve-based carrier-neutral facility. These nine local fibre carriers are: Africell Uganda Limited, Airtel Uganda, Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group, Csquared, Liquid Telecom, MTN Uganda, National Information Technology Authority-Uganda, Roke Telkom and Uganda Telecom Limited. All nine local […]
MoU paves the way for Google Cloud to launch new regions in Italy
Google Cloud and Telecom Italia (TIM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo to help it digitalise services and improve security and data protection standards. To provide the group with Google Cloud services, the “ambitious project” will see the creation of two carbon neutral Google Cloud Regions in Turin and […]
Google Cloud wins “seven figure” military security contract
Google Cloud has won a “seven figure” contract with the US Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit to help it detect and respond to cyber threats. Google Cloud said the deal will allow the Innovation Unit to run applications across platforms using Anthos – including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure – while being […]
NDC takes the wraps off yet another new data centre in Europe
The new company recently announced its move into Sweden and now it has unveiled German expansion plans, with other sites no doubt being planned elsewhere. Germany’s NDC Data Centers GmbH has launched the building of another data centre in the Frankfurt region, quickly following the recent announcement that it was building one of Sweden’s largest […]
Tencent begins testing cloud gaming platform with an exclusive selection of users
Conglomerate company Tencent has started testing its own cloud gaming platform and is letting users take the new game for a spin. Tencent launched a website for the cloud gaming platform called “Start” and is inviting people in Shanghai and Guangdong, China to sign up for the test. With very little instruction on the site, […]
AWS outperforms the Amazon group again with big jump in cloud sales
The quarter has been another busy one for AWS, with a string of big customer wins and a variety of infrastructure and energy announcements. Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and its Amazon Web Services subsidiary posted another set of impressive results for the first quarter ended 31 March. For the group, net sales increased 17% to $59.7bn. […]
Telefonica may sell its data centres for $669m in its latest debt reduction bid
Telefonica is allegedly selling its data centres to Asterion Capital for around $669.18m as its latest attempt to reduce its debt. Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial reported that the transaction was analysed on Wednesday in a meeting that Telefónica held at its headquarters in Madrid, according to sources close to the operation. Despite this, the […]
Digital Realty and Ascenty set to build Chile data centre
Construction commenced immediately upon signing the agreement, and the new facility, which is expected to deliver up to 6.3 megawatts of total IT capacity, is scheduled to open in 2020. Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) has come together with Latin America data centre service provider Ascenty to announce their a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a global […]