AWS has revealed plans to set up an infrastructure region in Taiwan by early 2025 in light of the explosion in demand for cloud services in the Asia-Pacific. AWS has made investments in Taiwan since 2014. The latest network investment highlighted in its May 2022 statement on “Local Zones” was a second Local Zone in… Read more »
Google has reached a significant milestone with the completion of its latest data centre and cloud region campus expansion in Singapore. This expansion brings the tech giant’s total investments in technical infrastructure in the country to a staggering US$5 billion, up from US$850 million in 2018. The company now employs over 500 people across its… Read more »
Microsoft has announced an investment of 33.7 billion Swedish crowns, approximately $3.2 billion, to enhance its cloud and AI infrastructure in Sweden over the next two years, marking a major commitment in the region. This substantial investment also highlights the seriousness of Microsoft’s dedication to cloud computing and AI. One of the ways the tech… Read more »
Cloud computing services company AWS is expanding its operations to Morocco and Senegal. The launch event for the AWS Wavelength platform will be conducted in collaboration with telecommunications giant Orange. Now that AWS is undertaking this, it indicates a major shift. Instead of constructing traditional physical data centres, the company will offer cloud computing services… Read more »
AWS is in talks with the Italian Government over a multi-billion-euro investment to expand data centres in Italy as part of the tech giant’s plan to strengthen its European cloud services. Specifics are still being finalised, according to a Reuters report, with discussions focusing on the size and location of the investment. One source even mentioned that AWS… Read more »
TechForge recently caught up with GNX’s CTO and co-founder, Rick Mur, to discuss how organisations around the world are dealing with the latest connectivity challenges. Can you tell us a little bit about GNX? GNX is a global connectivity provider, which means that we provide enterprises with any type of data connectivity solution anywhere in… Read more »
AWS has revealed its first ‘sovereign cloud’ region, which will be based in Brandenburg, Germany, is due to be operational by the end of 2025. It is hoped the development will strengthen data residency across Europe, with the cloud provider investing more than €7.8bn (£6.7bn) through 2040. Timed perfectly with the AWS Summit Berlin, which is… Read more »
NVIDIA’s 2024 GTC event, taking place through March 21, saw the usual plethora of announcements one would expect from a major tech conference. One stood out, from founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote: the next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture, enabling organisations to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models. “The future is… Read more »
Data4, a French operator and investor in the data centre market, and the University of Paris-Saclay have signed a partnership agreement to launch a prototyping experiment to reuse some of the heat produced by a data centre. This ground-breaking project will be launched in the Paris Region at the start of 2024. Driven by the… Read more »
European organisations are still beleaguered by storage bills as 50% of all cloud storage costs in EMEA go to data access and usage fees rather than capacity, according to the 2024 Global Cloud Storage Index from Wasabi Technologies. Still, EMEA companies see the value of cloud storage services and plan to increase their spend in… Read more »