New data and forecasts from Synergy Research Group show that the average capacity of hyperscale data centers to be opened over the next four years will be almost double that of current operational hyperscale data centers. The trend has always been for the critical IT load of hyperscale data centers to grow in size over […]
New data from Synergy shows that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62% of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia and the Greater Beijing Area alone make up 22% of the total. They are followed by Dublin, the US states of Oregon and Iowa, and then Shanghai. Of the top 20 markets, 13 are in the US, four in […]
Khazna Data Centres (Khazna), the hyperscale wholesale data centre provider in the Middle East and North Africa, has solidified its market dominance with the launch of its flagship data centre in Abu Dhabi (AUH6). Located in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, AUH6 has been designed to facilitate the UAE’s AI ambitions and underpin the company’s unwavering […]
Oracle has extended its collaboration with NVIDIA to include running strategic NVIDIA AI applications on the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster. NVIDIA has selected OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service, at massive scale. In addition, NVIDIA is running NVIDIA AI Foundations, its new generative […]
Microsoft and SAP have jointly announced the launch of RISE with SAP on Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud datacenter region in Qatar. SAP customers in Qatar can now host RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, expanding the opportunities for building a cloud-first economy in Qatar, the GCC and the MENA region. Microsoft and SAP made the announcement […]
Canalys estimates that cloud marketplaces will grow to over US$45 billion by 2025, representing an 84% CAGR. Cloud marketplaces are accelerating as a route to market for technology, led by hyperscale cloud vendors such as Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, which are pouring billions of development dollars into the sector. “The marketplace […]
Digital Edge, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd (“AGP”) have entered into a partnership to develop a pan-India portfolio of hyperscale data centers. The facilities will operate under the brand name Digital Edge DC and intend to support the country’s ongoing digital transformation and provide much needed capacity to the […]
Al Masaood Power Division, a part of the Al Masaood Group – one of Abu Dhabi’s leading business conglomerates, has provided sustainable power solutions to its partner Khazna Data Centers, the largest hyperscale data centre provider in the MENA region, using an eco-friendly power generator set – ‘mtu A Rolls-Royce solution Series 4000’. This 2000/2200-KW […]
The new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection platform provider, has announced the completion of the first phase of JB4, its new hyperscale data centre addition to the Bredell Campus, Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South […]
The Raxio Group has held a ground-breaking ceremony that formally kicked off the construction of its premier Tier-III carrier neutral colocation data centre, located at Beluluane Industrial Park (MozParks) in Maputo, Mozambique (“Raxio MZ1”). Highlighting the role Raxio Mozambique will play in strengthening the country’s digital backbone, Robert Mullins, CEO of Raxio Group, said, “We’re […]
