Datacentre

AWS Lambasts President Trump, As Pentagon Confirms Microsoft Jedi Contract

US Department of Defense confirms Microsoft's JEDI award, but AWS calls it a “politically corrupted contract award” and lambasts US…

4 years ago

Pacific Undersea Cable Drops Hong Kong, Amid National Security Concerns

Google and Facebook's Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable will not be activated in Hong Kong, after security law and…

4 years ago

Google Services Including Gmail Suffer Disruption

Rare event. Disruption around the globe after outage hits Google services including Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Docs on Thursday…

4 years ago

Zoom Opens Singapore Data Centre

Singapore gets yet another data centre, as video conferencing giant Zoom becomes latest to open facility in the city state

4 years ago

Softbank Confirms It Is Exploring Sell-Off Of ARM Holdings

Japanese giant Softbank has confirmed it is exploring selling off British chip designer ARM Holdings, including selling off parts of…

4 years ago

TikTok Selects Ireland For First European Data Centre

Ireland to get another data centre after the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok announces first European server facility

4 years ago

UK Government Should Stop ARM Sale To US – Hermann Hauser

Amid reports that Softbank is looking to offload ARM Holdings to Nvidia, the man involved in ARM's creation calls for…

4 years ago

Google ‘Grace Hopper’ Subsea Cable To Link US, UK, And Spain

New subsea cable from Google named after pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper and will run from New York to Bude…

4 years ago

Is ARM Raising Prices For Chip Licences?

ARM is reportedly seeking to raise licensing prices for some customers, leading some customers to consider ARM alternatives

4 years ago

Nvidia Overtakes Intel To Become Most Valuable US Chipmaker

Move aside Intel. Nvidia is now the most valuable chipmaker in the United States, despite not actually making any of…

4 years ago

Huawei Approved To Build £1 Billion Research Centre In Cambridge

Facility in Cambridge will become international HQ of Huawei's fiber optic communications business and will create 400 jobs

4 years ago

Google To Spend $2 Billion On Polish Data Centre

Cloud services push in Europe reportedly sees Google investing as much as $2 billion for a data centre location in…

4 years ago

Pentagon Inspector Unable To Say If White House Influenced JEDI Decision

Investigation into JEDI contract award to Amazon unable to determine if President Trump's White House influenced the decision

5 years ago

Bill Gates Steps Down From Microsoft Board

One of the world's richest men has stepped down from the board of the company he helped to create, to…

5 years ago

Honeywell Plans To Launch Powerful Quantum Computer

High performance computing. Quantum computer to be build by Honeywell this year, and it claims it will be more powerful…

5 years ago

Microsoft Asks Staff To Work From Home To Combat Coronavirus

Staff in Seattle and Silicon Valley to work from home, as Microsoft joins other companies trying to limit spread of…

5 years ago

Google To Spend Billions On US Data Centres

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai confirms plan to spend $10 billion in 2020 on Google data centres and offices across the…

5 years ago

AI and Public Standards

As the Committee on Standards in Public Life release their awaited report considering AI and its impact on the delivery…

5 years ago

Google Disappoints After Revealing YouTube’s $15 Billion Revenue

Strong financials from Google's parent, as it reveals for the first time the turnover of YouTube and Google Cloud business

5 years ago

Microsoft Pledges To Be Carbon Negative By 2030

No more carbon footprint. Ever. Redmond pledges to remove all the carbon it has created since it was founded back…

5 years ago

TSB Owner Sabadell Signs IBM Deal After Botched Migration

Spain's Banco Sabadell sign $1 billion deal with IBM for it to manage the bank's IT and cloud systems for…

5 years ago

Intel Pays $2 Billion For AI Firm Habana Labs

Chipmaker continues to open the cheque book to fund growth of its AI expertise and portfolio, with $2 billion Habana…

5 years ago

AWS Developing Powerful Data Centre Chip – Report

Second generation data centre chip is being designed by Amazon Web Services, based on ARM technology

5 years ago

Data Centre Test Omission Blamed For TSB IT Fiasco

Report alleges former TSB CIO was aware of lack of testing at TSB data centres, as it and Spanish owner…

5 years ago

Regulators Investigate Google Over Ascension Health Data Deal

Probe begins of Google, after deal that gives it access to healthcare data about millions of Americans

5 years ago

Gartner Sees Rise In IT Spending Next Year

IT spending in Europe and worldwide seen coming out of slump in 2020 as currency pressure eases – and firms…

5 years ago

OpenText Acquires Carbonite For £1.1bn

Cash deal sees OpenText expand its cloud business while adding Carbonite's data protection and end-point offerings to its own security…

5 years ago

Digital Realty To Acquire Interxion For $8.4bn

Data centre consolidation sees US real estate giant acquire Europe's largest colocation provider, Interxion

5 years ago

EU Data Regulator Finds ‘Serious Concerns’ Over Microsoft Contracts

Microsoft's contracts with EU agencies found to have 'significant scope for improvement' where it comes to protecting citizens' data

5 years ago