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Iron Mountain Invests In Ooredoo’s Data Center Company
Ooredoo Group and Iron Mountain have announced a strategic partnership, which will see the global leader in information management services take a minority equity stake in Ooredoo’s carrier-neutral data centre company, MENA Digital Hub. The partnership will enable Ooredoo to expand its MENA footprint of hyperscale and AI data centre infrastructure, combining the strength of the company’s local dev...
Core42 And Qualcomm Launch Inference-as-a-Service Offering In UAE Data Centers
Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services, has announced the launch of the AI Playground in UAE data centers. Built on the Qualcomm Cloud AI family of accelerators and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite for Cloud, this free-to-access platform equips developers and AI engineers with ready-to-use high-performance AI applications and agents, tools, and li...
HPE Ships First Nvidia Grace Blackwell System
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. “AI service providers and large enterprise model builders are u...
Hitachi Vantara And BMC Partner For Mainframe Innovation
Hitachi Vantara has announced an alliance with BMC Software to innovate and optimize faster on mainframe and open systems environments. This collaboration will combine Hitachi Vantara’s advanced storage platforms with BMC’s software offerings, enabling enterprises to improve their IT operations while maximizing the value of their data. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid cloud technologies,...
Western Digital Unveils Go-Forward Strategy At Investor Day 2025
Western Digital held the company’s Investor Day, announcing a vision and strategy for the future as the planned separation of the company’s Flash business nears its expected completion on February 21, 2025. CEO Designate Irving Tan reinforced Western Digital’s leadership in delivering world-class, sustainable storage solutions at scale. With a deep legacy in HDD technology and innovation, Western ...
Databricks Introduces SAP Databricks
Databricks has announced the launch of SAP Databricks, a strategic product and go-to-market partnership with SAP that natively integrates the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform within the newly launched SAP Business Data Cloud. The partnership combines the most important business data that is in SAP with the Databricks platform for data warehousing, data engineering, and AI all governed by Data...
HPE Launches Eight HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce industry-first security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI). The new servers will feature upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors fo...
Vertiv Launches Liquid Cooling Services Portfolio To Support Systems For AI
Vertiv has announced the launch of Vertiv Liquid Cooling Services. This offering provides customers with the tools to enhance system availability, improve efficiency, and navigate the evolving challenges of advanced liquid cooling systems with confidence. The offering is now globally available. Vertiv has been delivering these services for more than a year to regional early adopters, refining best...
NEOM And Datavolt To Develop $5b AI Data Center In Oxagon
NEOM, the sustainable region taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia, and DataVolt, a Saudi-based international developer, investor and operator of data centers, signed an agreement, marking a significant step toward realizing the Kingdom’s vision for a sustainable, data-driven economy. The development will take a phased approach, with phase one – funded by an initial investment of USD 5 billion – ...
Cisco Redefines Data Center Architecture With New N9300 Series Smart Switches
Cisco has announced a family of data center Smart Switches, disrupting traditional data center network design by enabling networking and security services in a compact all-in-one solution. Utilizing programmable AMD Pensando data processing units (DPUs), the switch functions as a high-capacity, multifunctional service-hosting device, architecturally transforming data centers to simplify their desi...
NXP Semiconductors To Acquire Edge AI Chipmaker Kinara
NXP Semiconductors has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kinara, a company providing high performance, energy-efficient and programmable discrete neural processing units (NPUs). These devices enable a wide range of edge AI applications, including multi-modal generative AI models. The acquisition will be an all-cash transaction valued at $307 million and is expected to close in the fir...
Salesforce To Invest $500M In Saudi Arabia
Salesforce has announced plans to invest $500 million in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, building on its commitment to innovation and economic growth in the region. The investment also aims to spur workforce development through AI skilling and expand Salesforce’s local partner ecosystem to support local businesses. The announcement, made at LEAP 2025, follows the company’s Davos pledge to expand its ...