The Chinese firm also aims to expand current enterprise customer base and expand its portfolio of services.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is currently studying the possibility of opening additional data centers outside China next year,...
Chinese firm plans to launch data centers in Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan this year.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch four new data centers by the end of 2016. The data centers...
The new data center is set to help Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company to process massive volume of industrial data
Huawei and the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, a producer of oil and gas from the offshore areas of the United Arab Emirates capital, officially...
The carrier completed a fiber network expansion, adding a DWDM route linking Frankfurt and Warsaw
Telia Carrier extended the reach of its global IP backbone through the completion of the Frankfurt-Warsaw Express, a direct dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber network route from Frankfurt, Germany, to...
The telecom industry is awash in merger talk at the moment, continuing a wave of consolidation that is seeing service providers complement delivery networks with content holdings, and has trickled down to the entire vendor ecosystem as high-capital costs coupled with declining revenues set...
Hyperconverged infrastructure is designed to give businesses of any size data center and cloud capabilities
AUSTIN, Texas – A little more than a month after closing its acquisition of EMC, the combined Dell EMC on Wednesday unveiled a new hyperconverged infrastructure solution touted by several executives...
Major cloud customers include the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense and Aston Martin
Microsoft has expanded its cloud offerings with the addition of Azure and Office 365 to data center locations in the United Kingdom. The rollout comes with major wins with major players including the...
Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era
This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought.
This is the...
Verizon digital content distribution plans in India set to begin with four points of presence in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi
Verizon Communications’ Digital Media Services in looking to expand its distribution presence announced a partnership with India telecom operator Bharti Airtel to launch...
Digital Bridge, the communications infrastructure company founded by tower investor Marc Ganzi, has bought a Texas company that owns and operates data centers. DataBank, formerly owned by a private equity firm, owns six data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis and Kansas City.
The companies did not...
Fujitsu plans to install the Oracle Cloud platform in its Japanese data centers
Fujitsu and Oracle Corporation Japan signed a strategic alliance to deliver cloud platform and services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.
Under terms of the agreement, Oracle Cloud application...
With continued growth in the need for data centers, those looking to build must decide between a prefab or traditional build solution
The modern data center is a fully integrated machine. Systems that previously simply co-existed under the same roof are now expected to work...
U.S. firm aims to complete the data center transactions in 2016
U.S.-based Digital Reality, which provides data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Equinix to acquire a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral data centers across Europe. Five of the data center...
Flexenclosure looks at what advances we should expect in data centers, which are becoming an increasingly important component of telecom operations
The proliferation of smart handsets, constant rollout of new applications and the ongoing expansion of mobile networks into previously under- or entirely unserved communities...
Cloud-as-a-service trades capital hardware, software and licensing costs into an operating expense
Faced with the ever-increasing need to cut costs and boost revenues, many enterprises are turning to digitalization strategies focused on using cloud computing platforms and attendant data analytics functions to gain efficiency and...
CEO Jeff Bezos attributes success to innovation and customer-obsessed approach
Highlighting the increasing importance of cloud-based computing and attendant data center needs, Amazon Web Services hit $10 billion in annual sales in 2015, according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....
The Open Compute Project, as it continues to gain interest of telecom players, is bringing the innovation of white box servers in the hyperscale data center space to new markets.
This episode of HetNet Happenings takes a look at how that innovation is being cross-pollinated...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Quortus to get a primer on mobile edge computing
On today’s show we have an interview with Riki Dolby, director of engineering at...
Facebook CEO calls addition of Google a 'strong symbolic move'
SAN JOSE, California – The Open Compute Project, started by Facebook in 2011, has grown to encompass some of the biggest names in tech hardware including Microsoft, Intel, Ericsson, and now Google.
The announcement came on March...
Facebook VP of infrastructure discusses Open Compute Project adoption by telecommunications industry
SAN JOSE, California – Jason Taylor, Facebook VP of infrastructure and Open Compute Project Foundation chairman and and president, kicked off the Open Compute Summit by touching on adoption in the telecommunications industry.
“These...
According to a report by Bloomberg, Google, which buys its data center server chips from Intel, could take that highly lucrative business to competitor Qualcomm if that company's chips meet performance standards.
Citing "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports the search giant "is planning to...
Project Natick is Microsoft's effort to make a more efficient, better located data center under the sea
Cloud computing heavyweight Microsoft, looking to boost the operational efficiency of data centers while physically locating content closer to users, has tested running servers sealed in a pod located...
Learn more about data center power needs and moves toward sustainability
As the demand for streaming video, mobile applications and other technologies that require high-bandwidth continues to proliferate, the need for data centers will continue to increase. In this article, we look into data center...
What is the Open Compute Project?
The Open Compute project is nonprofit founded in 2011 with the goal of reimaging the design of server, storage and other data center hardware with the goal of driving scalable computing through sharing of information and technical specifications.
The appetite...
