Galapagos Islands to get 20Tbps subsea fiber connection
Tortoises and Iguanas to enjoy 10X increase in Internet bandwidth from 2022
News - Graeme Burton, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Data center construction pipeline topped 600MW in the US at the end of 2020
Near-record levels of data center construction led by North Virginia, according to JLL Data Center Outlook report, with London and Frankfurt leading Europe as Amsterdam stalls
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US Eastern Seaboard to get subsea network links following MasTec-Confluence deal
MasTec investment in Confluence Networks will enable undersea fiber link between New Jersey and Florida to be completed
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UK Research & Innovation opens £5m fund to develop exascale supercomputer software and algorithms
£5m fund will fund programs to “research issues that impact the development of exascale software algorithms”
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Morocco's UM6P university launches Africa’s most powerful supercomputer
3.15 petaflops supercomputer will help conduct research for institutions across Africa
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Sony CSL launches open-source microgrid project to automate P2P power distribution
Sony CSL to work with The Linux Foundation’s LF Energy initiative on ‘Hyphae’ microgrid project
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Cloud-first strategy? Define your outcomes first, says Flexential’s Ryan Mallory
“If you’re not defining what your success criteria is, you’re not going to have anything to work towards,” warns Flexential COO Mallory
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Schneider: Pre-pandemic cloud-first IT infrastructure helped us cope with lockdown
Schneider’s pre-pandemic digital transformation investments helped support its 135,000 employees work from anywhere over the past year, says IT infrastructure head Zach Nimboorkar
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ExtraHop rents colo space in Australian data center to serve Asia-Pacific market
Machine-learning network security specialist gets a foothold in Australia to reduce latency
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CERN donates HPC equipment to Ghanaian technical university
Takoradi Technical University in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, the latest to benefit from CERN computer donations policy
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Digital Realty to build 430,000 square foot Santa Clara data center
‘Dark fiber’ ring will expand metro-area connectivity and directly connect users to Digital Realty’s San Francisco hub
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NTT: Coronavirus data center buying frenzy saw customers demand “double or triple” capacity in reserve
Data center customers had typically reserved around 10 percent, says NTT’s Bruno Berti – until Covid-19 hit
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Roche strikes quantum computing deal to develop early-stage Alzheimer’s drugs with CQC
Swiss pharma giant to collaborate with Cambridge Quantum Computing to design algorithms for early-stage drug development
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TeleGeography releases data center benchmarking tool to help companies shift data center locations
Equinix FR5 in Frankfurt offers most carrier networks and cloud providers, according to TeleGeography benchmarks
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South Island, New Zealand data center still on despite aluminum smelter closure delay
Energy-hungry aluminum smelter had been set to close in August, freeing up power for Datagrid’s new Invercargill data center
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CISA warning over cloud attacks bypassing multi-factor authentication
'Pass-the-cookie' technique used to compromise cloud account in at least one attack, warns CISA
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Microsoft is reportedly developing its own Arm server chips
Joining AWS in the Arm arms race
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US and Taiwan warn over ‘low’ Huawei Marine bid for Pacific islands’ submarine Internet cable
Claiming the price could be too good to be true
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Keppel Capital’s second data center investment fund to raise $1bn
Keppel Data Centre Fund II has already brought in $500m
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Despite Brexit and Covid-19, London is fastest growing colo market in Europe
London leads Europe as data center destination of choice, according to Knight Frank
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AWS Dublin data center to contribute to new district heating scheme
AWS to help heat public-sector buildings, offices and apartments in South Dublin
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Dublin installs 1GW sub-station to support doubling data center growth
High-voltage substation installed close to Dublin’s Castlebagot ‘digital business hub’
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TierPoint ups UPS capacity to expand TekPark data center
Hyperscale-ready facility near Philadelphia now has 17MW
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Facebook starts work on final phase of $1.5bn Fort Worth data center campus
Started in 2015, the data center campus will finally be completed in 2022 and employ 200 staff
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NetGain takes data centers offline following ransomware attack
Data centers have been taken down as a ‘protective measure’
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Google opens second data center in the Netherlands
New data center in Middenmeer, Amsterdam powered by nearby wind and solar farms