Microsoft announces plans to build an Azure data center in Denmark
Microsoft is continuing its expansion of global Azure data centers at a rapid rate. The company revealed that it plans to launch a new region in Denmark after announcing new regions in Taiwan and Austria two months ago.
In line with many recent announcements from the software giant, there is als...
Microsoft opens its most sustainable data center in Sweden in 2021
Microsoft announced a plan to open in Sweden in 2021, the most advanced and sustainable data center location ever made. The company says that the new region, which includes data centers in Gävle Sandviken and Staffanstorp, will help it achieve the goal of using 100% renewable energy sources in all...
Google to build largest Belgian data center
Google appears to be investing 600 million euro in the construction of a data centre in the Belgian city of Saint-Ghislain. It is set out to become the largest data centre the company has built the country.
With this data centre, Google will have invested a total of around 2 billion euros in Bel...
Europe’s volatile weather could wreak havoc in data centres
Heatwaves and storms are increasing humidity levels in Europe and threatening to wreak havoc on data center performance. The weather patterns in Europe, as in many parts of the world, are becoming increasingly volatile.
In a new report by Aggreko, the weather patterns in Europe could introduce s...
‘Nvidia wants to deliver a complete data center portfolio’
Nvidia will be focusing more on the data center solutions and wants to deliver a complete portfolio for that market. This was revealed in a recent interview with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang in the Financial Times.
The interview in the business newspaper shows that Nvidia wants to become the leadin...
Fortinet releases new 4400F firewall for data centers
Fortinet has launched a network firewall for hyperscale data centers and 5G networks. The FortiGate 4400F uses an NP7 network processor. Fortinet is looking to further expand its portfolio with this firewall.
Hyperscale data centers and cloud providers can benefit from the FortiGate 4400F. It is...
ServiceNow expands the number of data centers in Europe
ServiceNow opens two new European data centers, located in Dublin (Ireland) and Newport (United Kingdom). The expansion is intended to help customers solve Brexit problems, among other things.
Specifically, ServiceNow wants to use the two new data centers to enable European customers to speed up...
Snowflake expands data warehousing capabilities
Snowflake announced expansions to its data warehousing product during a virtual event. These expansions include the new Data Cloud, updates for the Cloud Data Platform and additional integrations.
Snowflake describes Data Cloud as an ecosystem for organizations for data aggregation, in other wor...
Public cloud firms invest most in data center hardware and software
Research by Synergy Research Group's market specialists shows that data center hardware and software are still very much in demand. Most of these investments come from public cloud parties. Investments in data center hardware and software for on-premise data centers are declining.
Suppliers of d...
Google claims much greener data centers than average location
Google states that its data centers are twice as energy efficient as the average enterprise data center. This is partly due to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
In a blog post, Google went a little further into the milestone it recently achieved. In it, Senior Vice President T...
Dell simplifies IT operations with PowerOne autonomous data center
Dell Technologies presented a completely new product at its dedicated analyst and media kit in Austin, Texas. With PowerOne, the company brings an autonomous data center onto the market that takes virtually all the work out of IT operations. This data center is also available as-a-service or based ...
NTT launches new global data center division
NTT launches a new global data center division called Global Data Centers. The division bundles the companies e-shelter, Gyron, Netmagic, NTT Indonesia Nexcenter, RagingWire, as well as a number of other data center vendors previously operating under the NTT Communications brand.
The division ha...