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A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Verizon and Geotab have been hit with a lawsuit alleging the pair infringed patented antenna technologies developed by Fractus.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure solutions provider, has closed $150 million in secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital.
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It is well understood that the 5G technologies being rolled out today are just the first step in a new evolutionary path towards the headline capabilities. What is perhaps less understood is that 5G evolution will not be limited to terrestrial networks.
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Dan Caruso’s new company ColdQuanta says it is on track to deliver its quantum computer, Hilbert, later this year.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the latest on DigitalBridge's EdgePoint to the dawn of quantum computing as-a-service.
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Deutsche Telekom has been identified as offering the most diversified product portfolio for enterprise 5G.
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The number of enterprise 5G projects doubled over the course of the last year, but the share of projects awarded to CSPs declined by 5%.
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Cloud networking company Kaloom has appointed former IBM executive George Khatchadourian as its new executive vice president of strategic partnerships.
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AT&T and Google Cloud have unveiled new solutions across AT&T's 5G and Google Cloud's edge computing portfolio.
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Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology for its subsea network.
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Google, Oracle and IBM are likely to compete with both Amazon and Microsoft for a new multibillion dollar cloud contract that the Pentagon will be awarding.
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Cloud and managed service providers are still waiting for a ransomware security update from software provider Kaseya, whose customers have been struck by a hack to the management software it distributes.
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Sumitomo Electric Industries will manufacture semiconductors for 5G base stations in New Jersey, US, from September.
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Sarah McComb, co-founder and president of the Women’s Tech Forum – a non-profit focused on the advancement and promotion of women in the cloud, data centre and telecom space – reflects on the pandemic’s effect on women and how we can move forward
