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Broadcom Launches VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud Application
Broadcom has announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the platform for the modern private cloud. With VCF 9.0, customers gain a consistent operating model for the private cloud, spanning data centers, edge, and managed cloud infrastructure from service providers and hyperscalers. VCF 9.0 combines the agility and scalability of public cloud with the security, perform...
Damac’s EDGNEX To Build 2.3bln AI-Focused Data Center In Jakarta
EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC, backed by Dubai-headquartered DAMAC Group, has announced the development of a next-generation AI-powered data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, its second in the market. This milestone project marks one of Southeast Asia’s largest AI-dedicated developments, with a future projected capacity of 144 MW and a total investment of US$ 2.3 billion. Following the land acquisition...
Intel And Lenovo To Build HX2 Supercomputer At Imperial College London
Intel has announced plans for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London, built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). The water-cooled system – designed as part of the co-investment ICICLE collaboration – will be deployed this year, delivering a performance uplift for the next generation of high performance computing (HPC) and artifici...
Vertiv Develops Energy-Efficient Cooling And Power Reference Architecture For NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Platform
Vertiv has announced their energy-efficient 142kW cooling and power reference architecture for the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform. In addition to fully integrated end-to-end cooling and power strategies for this next generation platform, the reference architecture unlocks a new era of infrastructure design by shifting from traditional buildouts. Vertiv solutions are available as SimReady 3D assets in...
Amazon To Invest $13bn In Data Centers In Australia
Amazon has announced plans to invest a new total of AU$20 billion from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia. The country’s largest publicly-announced global technology investment will support the strong growth in customer demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), accelerating AI adoption and capability, and the continued moder...
Oracle To Deploy Cluster Of 130,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs
Oracle and AMD have announced that AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to give customers more choice and more than 2X better price-performance for large-scale AI training and inference workloads compared to the previous generation. Oracle will offer zettascale AI clusters accelerated by the latest AMD Instinct processors with up to 131,072 MI355X GPUs to...
Hitachi Vantara Introduces EverFlex AI Data Hub As A Service
Hitachi Vantara has introduced Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service. The new AI Data Hub as a Service offering represents a fully managed, all-in-one infrastructure consumption service addressing AI data preparation challenges by providing a modern data lakehouse with integrated workbench capabilities for AI, business intelligence (BI), and data needs. Amid the boom of AI adoption, organizati...
NTT Data Joins Climate Pledge Initiative
NTT DATA has announced its commitment to The Climate Pledge, a groundbreaking initiative co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019. The pledge sets an ambitious target for companies to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050. More than 560 organizations have now signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there wil...
Global Cloud Spending Grew 21% In Q1 2025
Global spending on cloud infrastructure services, according to Canalys (now part of Omdia) estimates, reached US$90.9 billion in Q1 2025, marking a 21% year-on-year increase. Enterprises have recognized that deploying AI applications requires renewed emphasis on cloud migration. Large-scale investment in both cloud and AI infrastructure remains a defining theme of the market in 2025. Meanwh...
Schneider Electric And NVIDIA Join Forces To Develop AI Factories
Schneider Electric has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate the development and deployment of sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure, known as “AI factories.” Both companies are advancing research and development (R&D) initiatives in cooling, power, building management, and control systems for both digital and physical AI data centers. Leveraging its expertise in AI-ready infrastruc...
Vertiv Names Mike Giresi as Global CIO
Vertiv has announced that Mike Giresi has joined the company on June 30, 2025 as global Chief Information Officer (CIO), leading company initiatives in AI adoption across the business, cybersecurity, product security, and digital enabled productivity and customer experience. “Strong digital and IT vision and execution are central to our strategy to continue to lead the industry and constantl...
AMD-Powered El Capitan And Frontier Dominate Top500 Supercomputer Rankings
El Capitan, deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, maintained its position as the world’s fastest supercomputer, posting a 1.742 exaflops High Performance Linpack (HPL) score. Built by HPE, this exascale system continues to deliver increased performance using AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, combining CPU and GPU compute in a single package to power massive AI and scientific workloads. The i...