Nokia has announced a strategic partnership with Supermicro, an IT solutions company, to help cloud providers, hyperscalers, enterprises and CSPs deploy high-performance, AI-optimized data center networking solutions. By combining Supermicro’s advanced switching hardware with Nokia’s data center automation and network operating system, the companies will deliver a fully integrated data center netw...
Pure Storage has announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, positioned highest in execution and furthest in vision. Gartner defines enterprise storage platforms as the market consisting of products, value-based services and delivery methods designed to support diverse block, file and object storage workloads and use cases. I...
Cisco has unveiled a solution for building AI infrastructure designed to support workload data fabrics, further enabling enterprises to securely use their data for agentic AI at enterprise-scale. With this new solution, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA expands to new use cases, including the acceleration of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with faster data extraction and retri...
Investment firm KKR has announced the appointment of Adam Selipsky, former Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a Senior Technology and AI Strategy Advisor to the firm. Selipsky, one of the most recognized leaders in cloud and enterprise technology, will help guide KKR’s global digital infrastructure platform as the firm accelerates investments in the next generation of AI, dat...
Digital Edge, a pan-Asian data center platform backed by global infrastructure investor Stonepeak, and B.Grimm Power Public Company (BGRIM), a Thailand’s energy firm have celebrated the groundbreaking of their first joint data center in Thailand. This marks the official start of construction for the flagship 100-megawatt (MW) campus, an integrated facility under the Digital Edge and B.Grimm Power ...
Rackspace Technology has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Gajen Kandiah as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 3, 2025. Under Kandiah’s leadership, Rackspace will advance its AI-first multicloud strategy by designing, building and operating governed multicloud operations for AI and data workloads across private, public and sovereign clouds with hyperscalers, regional cl...
CoreWeave has announced a definitive agreement to acquire OpenPipe Inc, a leading platform for training AI agents with reinforcement learning (RL). OpenPipe has created advanced machine learning techniques that have become a preferred developer framework to train agents. Its technology democratizes RL for developers at AI labs to post-train on a builder’s own unique workflows. Agents are then able...
Khazna Data Centers (Khazna) has announced that it has secured a $2.62 billion financing facility to fuel its ambitious UAE and international growth plans. The landmark financing deal, among the largest in the MENA region, was secured in partnership with two top UAE banks – Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB). With a tenor lasting up to 10 years, the financing facility ...
Atos Group has announced the appointments of four senior executives to strengthen its executive team. These seasoned leaders will join the leadership management team and support the next phase of the Group’s fast-moving transformation plan to restore sustainable profitable growth, improve performance, and create long-term value for all stakeholders. Philippe Salle, Atos Group Chairman and CEO says...
NTT DATA has announced the appointment of Jafar Kuruniyan as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for its Middle East and Africa (MEA) operations, succeeding Barry Curtin, who steps down after 16 years of distinguished service with the NTT Group, including 12 years as CFO in the region. Kuruniyan is a seasoned finance executive, holding a Master of Business Administration from Mahatma Gandhi Univ...
Digital Realty has announced the appointment of Marcel Louw as its Managing Director in Africa. In this role, Louw will provide strategic leadership across Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Ghana, building on the strength of Digital Realty’s existing operations and continuing to expand the company’s global data center platform, PlatformDIGITAL, in Africa. Louw will report to Paula Cogan, Digital Rea...
NTT DATA has announced the appointment of Joe Pace as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for its Global Data Centers division. Based in Sacramento, Calif., Pace will report directly to Doug Adams, President and CEO of NTT Global Data Centers, and succeeds Florian Winkler, who recently departed the company. In his new role, Pace will lead the development of global operational functions to enhance scalab...