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Alibaba ups cloud spending by $28 billion to better compete with AWS and Azure

Alibaba plans on investing an additional $28 billion into its cloud computing division’s infrastructure, after the company saw a massive spike in demand for...

Nvidia edges closer to completing $6.9 billion Mellanox acquisition

It has been 13 months since Nvidia first announced its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox, and it’s now one step closer to completing the...

Amazon faces setback in challenging $10 billion JEDI contract award to Microsoft

Amazon has faced a slight setback in its challenge to the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft.  ...

38% of enterprises set to adopt blockchain solutions in 2020

Data gathered by InsideBitcoins.com has revealed that around 38% of organisations are planning to integrate blockchain solutions into their operations in 2020. From...

DCW 2020 attendees cite reducing data centre energy costs as a ‘top priority’

A new poll from Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, a UK-based design and build company for modular and containerised data centres, has revealed that reducing...

World’s second largest shipping line hit by major cybersecurity attack, knocking out its data centre

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s second largest shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity, has suffered a major cybersecurity attack which has...

Zoom’s paying customers can now blacklist data centres, after privacy concerns raised

Zoom is now allowing its paying customers to select which data centres they want to route their calls through, after some users complained about...

Microsoft fails to acknowledge major Azure outage for five hours due to sleeping manager

Microsoft has admitted that its slow response in acknowledging a major outage that affected Azure customers in Europe late last month was due to...

Covid-19 fears invite new opportunities for cyber criminals  

New phishing lures, that use coronavirus as the hook, are emerging every day. Businesses needing protection being are offered free business-wide resistance tests to...

Jochem Steman, Datacenter.com’s CEO, to step down after four years

Datacenter.com has announced the departure of its CEO of four years, with Jochem Steaman set to leave the company in the coming months.  ...

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