Facebook announced to build its first custom-built data center in Asia that will be located in Singapore. The 170,000-square-meter data center represents an investment of more than US $1 billion and enable it to grow its presence in Singapore and across Asia.
eBay announced that it is embarked on a ambitious three-year effort to replatform and modernize backend infrastructure and they will be using their own custom-designed servers, built by eBay, for eBay. The company also believes it can make eBay’s servers
ASBIS announced that it has become the official distributor of TYAN in EMEA Emerging Markets: Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, the Former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa.
Eaton introduced the lower power-rated models of its 9SX UPS markets across EMEA region. The new models extend the existing product portfolio of 5-11kVA UPS models across a larger power range from 700VA to 6kVA and are available in tower and rack formats.
NAKIVO unveiled thelatest version for its backup and replication solution as it announced the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8. The new version introduces the Site Recovery feature, which can help customers achieve business continuity and 24/7 availability of IT services.:
Cisco announced the release of the patch for a recently-discovered security flaw in the Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software that is used to manage switches and routers connected through LAN and SAN environments, including the Cisco Nexus switches and MDS enterprise SAN switches.
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.
Pure Storage has announced the acquisition of privately-held software company StorReduce, a cloud-first software-defined storage solution for managing large scale unstructured data that is expected to add sophisticated deduplication technology
India’s fastest growing service provider, Reliance Jio announced that it is planning to set up a new data center in Kolkata in the eastern part of the country at an approximate investment of over $142 million.
Data Centers are supposed to be one of biggest consumer of energy in the world and generates up to two per cent of the global CO2 emissions, To counter this rising challenge Google has found a way to deal with it by deploying AI.
