Apollo has announced that Apollo-managed infrastructure funds, Apollo Funds, has agreed to provide a significant capital commitment to Yondr Group via a structured instrument as the first step in a broader partnership. Proceeds from the investment will be utilised to further Yondr’s growth ambitions in support of client demand for its differentiated service proposition as Apollo and […]

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) needed to upgrade its powerful Lonestar5 supercomputer to keep up with its several thousand projects and continue pushing the boundaries of supercomputing. The organisation realised immersion cooling was the only practical way forward. Tommy Minyard, Ph.D., TACC’s Director of Advanced Computing Systems, explains how GRC’s liquid immersion cooling solution addressed […]

RETN, a leading international network service provider, has announced the successful completion of its new Stockholm to Helsinki route deployment. This latest expansion extends RETN’s global footprint, offering enhanced diversity, resilience and performance across its network. RETN continues developing the shortest routes on the market to achieve record latency numbers. With a route length of […]

Digital Realty, one of the largest global providers of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has announced a signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with EXA Infrastructure (EXA), one of the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platforms connecting Europe and North America. The strategic collaboration will facilitate the expansion of EXA’s fibre infrastructure to Digital Realty’s data centres across the Mediterranean region, bolstering its connectivity infrastructure. Following EXA’s recent deployments in Digital Realty’s sites in Dublin, Paris and Zagreb, Digital Realty’s […]

A 5MW, state-of-the-art testing laboratory was recently commissioned at the Modine Rockbridge facility in Virginia, further expanding the services that Airedale by Modine can offer data centre customers and meet increasing demand from the data centre industry for validated, sustainable cooling solutions. Airedale, the critical cooling specialists, is a trusted brand of Modine, a diversified […]

BNP Paribas, atNorth and Dell Technologies have collaborated in order to deploy HPC with 50% less energy usage, 85% less CO2 output and lower TCO. To deliver more value to its customers and fuel emerging HPC needs, BNP Paribas CIB required exponential infrastructure growth. Ricardo Jantarada, Global Head of Telecom & Datacenter at BNP Paribas […]

According to Gartner, 75% of organisations will have implemented a data centre infrastructure sustainability programme driven by cost optimisation and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5% in 2022.   “Responsibilities for sustainability are increasingly being passed down from CIOs to infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to improve IT’s environmental performance, particularly around data […]

DE-CIX, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operators and home to the largest carrier- and data centre-neutral interconnection ecosystem globally has announced its newest Internet Exchange in Helsinki, Finland, is ready for service.  The new DE-CIX IX is available in Equinix’s data centres in Helsinki (HE-CIX) with more enabled sites to be announced. In […]

Telehouse, a leading data centre service provider, has officially opened its first Thai data centre at the prime location of Rama 9 in Bangkok – with an investment of US$74 million (THB2.5 billion) – aiming to create a connectivity ecosystem and becoming the first purpose-built data centre to achieve 100% power supply by renewable energy […]

Corinium Global Intelligence, organisers of the DataCon Africa conference, held the inaugural DataConian Hall of Fame Awards last night at Century City Conference Centre alongside the conference. Chris Read, Managing Director for Corinium Global Intelligence: Africa said the awards were launched alongside the conference in an effort to recognise industry excellence from both individuals and […]