Nvidia earns 409 per cent more revenue from data centre GPUs
With quarterly revenue of $18.4 billion (nearly €17 billion), Nvidia's data centre segment exceeded market expectations.
Analysts were already counting on Nvidia's revenue to grow significantly. After all, the company's GPUs are crucial for AI, where demand has exploded over the past 12 months... Read more
Google puts nearly 1 billion into new UK data centre
Google is investing $1 billion (€919 million) to build a new 33-hectare data centre in the United Kingdom.
The new 33-hectare data centre will be built in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. With this data centre, the tech giant aims to bring more computing power capacity to the UK for customers. Th... Read more
Microsoft acquires data processing unit startup Fungible
Microsoft confirmed the acquisition of Fungible, a promising startup that manufactures data processing units (DPUs).
In December, reports emerged that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating datacenter hardware known as data processing units (DPUs). The deal was estimated to be wo... Read more
Atlassian patches critical flaws in Bitbucket and Crowd Server
Atlassian launched critical-severity patches for identity management solution Crowd Server and Data Center and repository management platform Bitbucket Server and Data Center.
Both security flaws have a severity rating of 9 and affect numerous versions of the products. The Crowd Server and Data ... Read more
Switch sued by investors over misinforming on $11 billion merger
Investors are suing data center operator Switch for failing to disclose important financial information when pursuing an $11 billion merger with DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors.
Shareholders Marc Waterman and Denise Redfield filed two separate lawsuits in the Federal Court in New York la... Read more
“Nutanix will make the cloud invisible”
Nutanix has made data centre infrastructures invisible in recent years with its platform. It can manage all infrastructure from one Nutanix portal. The next step is to make the cloud invisible in the coming years. At least, that's what the CEO of Nutanix, Rajiv Ramaswami, told us in an exclusive in... Read more
Intel expects a 20% drop in data centre sales
Intel reported its Q1 2021 revenue ($19.7 billion), surpassing what analysts expected. However, it was not enough to prevent the price from slipping. The stock closed after going down by 1.77% and slipped down even more in after-hours trading.
Analysts had forecast that the revenue would be abou... Read more
Still not all OVHcloud services back online
Hosting provider OVHcloud is still recovering from the fire that destroyed two of its data centres. More than a month after the fire, there are still customers whose services have not been restored yet.
Recovering from the fire is a real nightmare, says OVH CEO Octave Klaba in a tweet. After a d... Read more
Cloudflare introduces tools to keep data within borders
Cloudflare has unveiled the Data Localisation Suite. The service is intended to help companies comply with legislation in countries where it is forbidden to store personal data across borders.
Customers of Cloudflare can use the service to indicate where they want their data to be encrypted, dec... Read more
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... Read more