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Amazon has launched a $110 million programme to offer its custom Trainium chips to power generative AI-focused research efforts. -
Microsoft has hit back at Google Cloud's claims that its licensing terms “restrict” customers from moving to competitors, claiming the hyperscale rival is secretly funding a group trying to discredit the company.
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Amazon has made a significant sustainability move, becoming the latest hyperscaler to snap up modular nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
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ZainTECH, the digital solution provider of Zain Group, has entered a share purchase agreement (SPA) with Redington, a technology solutions provider, to acquire Citrus Consulting.
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Amazon has agreed to purchase Talen Energy’s data centre campus, located next to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
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Amazon will launch an AWS infrastructure region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2026, it revealed yesterday.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its second cloud region in the Abu Dhabi, known as the AWS Middle East (UAE) region.
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Red River, a technology transformation company, has signed a multi-year strategic cloud collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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New Zealand operator Spark is testing a cloud-based 5G network with the aid of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Mavenir.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing its own private 5G network, but without 5G for the time being.
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Google Cloud’s business has grown by 45% year-on-year in the latest quarter, with rivals Microsoft Azure growing 40% in the same time, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) growing 33%.
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Iron Mountain confirms the availability of its content services platform, Iron Mountain InSight (InSight) as a Software as-a-Service (SaaS) offering on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Amazon has set up a centre in California to develop quantum-secure networking.
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Christina Mertens has been appointed to the newly-created role of VP of business development, EMEA, at Virtus Data Centres.
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Verizon and AWS have expanded its 5G mobile edge computing across the US with the addition of Nashville, Tennessee and Tampa, Florida.
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Cloud providers launched 18 new cloud regions last year, well above the average of 15 a year that they have achieved over the past 10 years.
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BT will transform legacy infrastructure and its internal application to cloud-first architecture after signing a five-year collaboration partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Seventy companies from the data centre industry have promised to reduce carbon in digital infrastructure materials, products and power – only six weeks after the campaign started.
