The Singaporean asset management firm Keppel has acquired a data center outside Tokyo. Its data center arm, Keppel DC REIT, has taken a 100 percent stake in the five-storey Tokyo Data Centre 3 for JPY 82.1 billion ($555 million). Tokyo Data Centre 3 is fully contracted to a leading global hyperscaler for 15 years with […]
Ciena has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nubis Communications, a privately-held company headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey. The addition of Nubis, which specializes in high-performance, ultra-compact, low-power optical and electrical interconnects tailored to support AI workloads, will expand Ciena’s portfolio and add critical talent to address a wider […]
SoftBank has announced that it is collaborating with Meta, IPS Inc., TM Technology Services Sdn. Bhd., and PT XLSmart Telecom Sejahtera Tbk to develop a new international submarine cable system, “Candle”, that will connect Japan and Singapore. NEC Corporation has been contracted as the system supplier. Candle is an approximately 8,000 km submarine cable system […]
AVEVA has announced its participation at the Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025, taking place on 24–25 September at the Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences. The company will showcase its unique industrial intelligence solutions including AVEVA Unified Operations Center, CONNECT, AVEVA Operations Control and AVEVA PI System. At the event, AVEVA will focus on its partnership with […]
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a letter of intent for a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to […]
Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN, says the Middle East is fast becoming a global leader in AI-driven data centers, fueled by bold investments in sovereign cloud, smart cities, and platforms like DDN’s Infinia.
Pure Storage has announced its participation at GITEX 2025 (Hall 5, Stand B30). Building on the success of participating in the Middle East’s flagship technology event for over a decade, the company will showcase the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), an industry-changing architectural approach to data storage and management. Businesses in the Middle East are grappling […]
Schneider Electric has announced new reference designs developed with NVIDIA that significantly accelerate time to deployment and aid operators as they adopt AI-ready infrastructure solutions. The first reference design delivers the industry’s first and only critical framework for integrated power management and liquid cooling control systems, including Motivair by Schneider Electric liquid cooling technologies, and enables seamless […]
Nutanix has added Greg Lavender to its board of directors, effective September 17, 2025. With more than 40 years of experience spanning software, cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure, Lavender brings a wealth of strategic expertise to the role. “Greg has a deep engineering background with experience from both the vendor and customer perspective. He […]
BT Group has announced that Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Limited, will join the Board of BT Group as non-independent non-executive directors. Sunil and Gopal will join the Board pursuant to a relationship agreement (as described below) as the nominated […]
