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ABB sells Power Conversion division to AcBel Polytech for $505m
ABB has reached an agreement to sell its Power Conversion division to AcBel Polytech for $505 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2023. Upon closing, ABB expects to record a small non-operational book gain in Income from operations on the sale. The Power Conversion division, formerly Lineage Power, was acquired b...
Intel unveils 4th Gen Xeon scalable processors, Intel Data Center GPU Max Series
Intel has marked one of the most important product launches in company history with the unveiling of 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (code-named Ponte Vecchio), delivering for its customers a leap in data center performance, efficiency, security and new capab...
Synology unveils DiskStation DS723+ for home offices and small businesses
Synology has announced the new 2-bay Synology DiskStation DS723+, the smallest expandable option in its lineup of all-in-one solutions for home offices and small businesses. Powered by the versatile Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system, the DS723+ offers comprehensive solutions to protect and manage business data, easily collaborate on documents, access files remotely, and monitor p...
Rackspace Technology unveils Rackspace SDDC Solutions
Rackspace Technology has announced the launch of Rackspace Technology Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Rackspace SDDC Enterprise, Rackspace SDDC Business, and Rackspace SDDC Flex. These new offerings will provide targeted solutions for organizations to bridge the gap between the cloud and data centers. As organizations continue to move out of internally managed data centers to the cloud, Racksp...
Pure Storage Further Expands SLA Offerings For Evergreen//One
Pure Storage has announced continued growth of its subscription service offerings, including its Evergreen portfolio, in addition to a new energy efficiency service level agreement (SLA) for Evergreen//One. The introduction of the new SLA represents the first and only energy efficiency guarantee in the enterprise storage as a service market, and supports Pure Storage’s mission to provide customers...
AirTrunk enters Malaysia with new hyperscale data center
AirTrunk has announced its entry into Malaysia with plans to develop a 150+ megawatt (MW) data centre. Named AirTrunk JHB1 (JHB1), the facility will be the company’s first in Malaysia and ninth in APJ, taking its data centre platform to over 1.35 gigawatts (GW) of capacity. The JHB1 campus will span 10.3 hectares of land in Johor Bahru, a strategic location at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsu...
Red Hat to Reach Net-Zero Operational Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
Red Hat has announced its ambition to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 to address the global climate crisis. Red Hat’s 2030 operational net-zero goal follows a science-aligned pathway to limit global warming to 1.5-degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and includes scope 1 and 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions associated with Red Hat’s electricity consumpt...
Epicor to launch new UAE data center
New UAE data center, strong cloud adoption, and customer successes underpin growth in the region Epicor has discussed key developments in its Middle East growth strategy at the company’s 2023 Middle East Customer Day on January 17, including plans to launch a new regional data centre driven by surging customer cloud adoption. With increased interest and demand in cloud solutions amongst Epicor cus...
Schneider Electric appoints Marc Garner as New Senior Vice President
In his new role Marc will be tasked with continuing to lead Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division across Europe Schneider Electric has announced it has appointed Marc Garner as the new regional Senior Vice President of its Secure Power Division in Europe. Garner is a 17-year veteran of Schneider Electric, and since first joining its graduate program in 2005, has progressed through several lea...
Raxio to build Tier III data centre in Angola
Pan-African data centre firm Raxio has announced that it is investing and establishing ‘Raxio Angola’, the first state-of-the-art, carrier neutral, Tier III data centre in the country. Raxio Angola is the latest facility to be part of Raxio’s fast expanding network of interconnected carrier neutral, Tier III data centres across the African continent. Angola’s digital and telecommunications ecosyst...
MBZUAI and IBM launch AI Center of Excellence
AI Center of Excellence will focus on finding carbon neutral solutions for existing energy resources Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in collaboration with IBM formally launched an AI Center of Excellence on Tuesday, January 17, as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week’s World Future Energy Summit. The Center aims to advance collaboration to improve the adoption of ...
CEOs Embrace Sustainability to Build Resilience
CEOs are facing an enormously challenging global context, with the vast majority (93%) experiencing 10 or more simultaneous challenges to their businesses and 87% warning that current levels of disruption will limit delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finds the largest CEO study on sustainability ever conducted by the UN Global Compact and Accenture. While CEOs are increasingl...