In a move that underscores the changing role of sovereign cloud and artificial intelligence beyond traditional markets, Abu Dhabi-based technology group G42 has signed an agreement with a Vietnamese consortium to build national-scale cloud and AI infrastructure in Vietnam. The pact, announced in Ho Chi Minh City this week, calls for up to $1 billion […]
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Blackstone, the largest commercial property owner worldwide, has reported record earnings to investors, having successfully sold off and cashing out of investments at a profit of almost $1 billion. The “world’s largest alternative asset manager” saw fourth-quarter results rise 3% to $2.24 billion ($1.75 a share). According to CEO Stephen Schwarzman, this is the firm’s […]
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Fibre-optic equipment manufacturer, Corning, has set out plans to increase its number of manufacturing plants in North Carolina, in a deal with Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The agreement will see Corning supply its fibre optic technology to Meta’s data centres. Meta has reportedly agreed to a deal in which it […]
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As companies like Carousell push more reporting into cloud data platforms, a bottleneck is showing up inside business intelligence stacks. Dashboards that once worked fine at small scale begin to slow down, queries stretch into tens of seconds, and minor schema errors ripple in reports. In short, teams find themselves balancing two competing needs: stable […]
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Alphabet’s expanding AI cloud infrastructure push shows how demand is putting real pressure on the systems that power enterprise computing. Hyperscale providers are responding by sharply increasing spending on compute capacity, but supply remains tight as AI workloads grow faster than data centre buildouts. Alphabet’s latest earnings call offered a clear window into that tension. […]
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AI is starting to change how large organisations use cloud data platforms. What began as a way to store information cheaply and scale analytics has become central to reporting, dashboards, and business intelligence. The shift now is not where data lives in the cloud, but who can work with it and how quickly insights can […]
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If you are a security leader, you will need to be able to answer the following questions: where is your sensitive data? Who can access it? And is it being used safely? In the age of generative AI, it’s increasingly becoming a struggle to answer all three. An October whitepaper from Concentric AI outlines the […]
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The global market for data centre design services is on course for sustained growth as operators expand capacity and adapt facilities to new technical demands. According to a report from The Business Research Company, the sector should reach a value of $38.36 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 11.8%. According to the figures, […]
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Japanese multinational investment holding company, SoftBank, has launched Infrinia AI Cloud OS, a software stack custom-designed for AI data centres. Designed by the company’s Infrinia team, Infrinia AI Cloud OS lets data centre operators deliver Kubernetes-as-a-service (KaaS) in multi-tenant settings, and offer inference-as-a-service (Inf-aaS). Therefore, customers can access LLMs via simple APIs that can be […]
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Insurance company Willis has introduced an eight-point digital infrastructure framework that classifies data centres as a standalone systemic insurance class. The firm says the change reflects a change in the risk profile of data centres. It’s been influenced by the role DC assets now play in cloud and AI workloads. Announcing the framework on 28 […]
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