North America
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Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President. -
Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
Forthcoming events
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Developers and businesses can now build and deploy applications at the edge of Verizon’s wireless network in three new US locations - Chicago, Houston and Phoenix.
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DigitalBridge Group (DigitalBridge) has released its second quarter 2021 financial results that saw the company reach total revenues of $237 million.
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Frontier Communications confirms the acceleration its fibre network with a new objective to reach 10 million locations by the end of 2025.
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Rogers has expanded its 5G network to Windsor, Quinte West, Strathroy-Caradoc, Parry Sound and Nipissing, all in the province of Ontario.
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Verizon Business confirms the expansion of 5G Business Internet to five new cities bringing the total number to 47.
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Technology entrepreneur Thomas Hogue is acquiring data centre services firm Netrepid, which operates a single data centre in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service is providing better broadband than fixed rivals in Europe and Canada, and comparable to fixed in the US.
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Windstream Wholesale has connected its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the Hillsboro, Oregon, cable landing station (CLS).
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Intelsat reported total revenue of US$507.9 million in Q2, an increase of $25.8 million, while net loss attributable to Intelsat S.A. stood at $152.3 million.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
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Lumen Technologies is to sell its incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business across 20 states, to funds managed by Apollo Global Management (Apollo Funds) for $7.5 billion.
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Digital transformation has long been the top priority for the majority of businesses. However, despite the clear and all-inclusive benefits of digital transformation (when done right), the sobering reality is that many enterprise technology teams are struggling to manage and secure such a complex and multifaceted IT environment.
