Tuesday, June 18, 2024

HPE teams with NVIDIA on Private-Cloud AI 

 HPE and NVIDIA have co-developed the Private Cloud AI portfolio to enhance innovation, return on investment, and manage enterprise AI risks. This portfolio supports a range of AI workloads and offers robust enterprise controls, cloud experiences, and flexible consumption models. The curated AI and data software stack is built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and includes HPE AI Essentials software for adaptable and compliant AI solutions. The portfolio...

Vantage Data Centers completes $9.2B equity investment

Vantage Data Centers completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge Group and Silver Lake.Vantage has grown in recent years to own or control more than 25 sites in North America and EMEA totaling over three gigawatts of expected capacity. As part of the company’s investment plan, the new funding is expected to accelerate further growth by driving an estimated $30 billion of additional development, extending...

Microsoft opens data center region in Madrid

Microsoft inaugurated its first cloud region of data centers in Spain, located in multiple locations in the Community de Madrid.The new cloud region (called Spain Central) will help to accelerate the digitalization of Spanish organizations, the development of the AI Economy in Spain and the growth of the local IT industry. The technologies offered at Spain Central are, among others, the most modern services for productivity, data analytics, cybersecurity,...

Padtec supplies subsea network connect Belém to Fortaleza for Global Fiber

Global Fiber, a telecommunications service operator specialized in optical fiber operations in Peru and Brazil, has chosen Padtec and Satelital as the primary suppliers for the submarine solution for a festoon network connecting two Brazilian capitals: Belém (in Pará state) and Fortaleza (in Ceará state). A festoon network is a type of underwater infrastructure that links multiple coastal points without requiring intermediate amplification.Global...

Dell'Oro: Accelerated Servers accounted for over 50% of server sales

Accelerated servers equipped with GPUs and custom accelerators accounted for more than half of all server sales in 1Q 2024, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Not only are the hyperscalers leading the way in deploying accelerated servers for AI workloads, but enterprises are also increasing their adoption of accelerated servers as GPU supplies improve.“Worldwide data center capex experienced the first double-digit growth in five quarters....