DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Enterprise, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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IBM to close data centers in Dallas, Melbourne, and Houston
Claims the data centers are unsuitable for modernization
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Qualcomm posts postive earnings, plans investment in data centers and Edge
Qualcomm previously scaled back its data center division drastically
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Lenovo records $14.5bn in revenue after Q2 2020 growth in sales
Lenovo's data center division is up 11 percent in revenue too
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Marvell to buy Inphi in $10bn semiconductor deal
Yet another billion-dollar chip deal
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Equinix's quarterly revenue is up nine percent year on year
Equinix expected to be hit by Covid... that never happened
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Liquid Telecom raises $307m for business expansion
Including from a UK government-backed investment agency
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NYSE and Nasdaq threaten to leave New Jersey if transaction tax goes ahead
The markets claim they could move operations out to Dallas or elsewhere
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Equinix to expand its WA1 data center in Warsaw, Poland
The project follows the opening of Equinix's nearby WA3 data center
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Vantage Data Centers raises $1.3bn for refinancing and expansion
Most of the money will go towards Vantage's debt
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EU drafts bill to supervise cloud banking
It would have the power to fine Cloud providers too
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Rack Centre to expand its campus in Lagos, Nigeria
The expansion will massively increase the data center's capacity
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Equinix sees quarterly revenue grow six percent over last year
This is the company’s 70th consecutive quarter of revenue growth
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Microsoft's Azure revenue continues to grow, but at a slower rate
But don't worry, the company had a record quarter
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SEMI: Chip equipment sales to hit $70bn in 2021
China, Taiwan, and Korea are the biggest spenders in the market
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Stratus and Cromwell launch $1bn data center fund, plan London and Frankfurt facilities
Stratus will handle the data center side, while Cromwell will contribute most of the money
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Google announces $10bn investment fund to digitize India
The tech giant is working very closely with the Indian Government
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Renault moves its data to Google Cloud
Renault also wants the tech giant to train up its staff
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Group led by Colony Capital strikes $1.2bn deal on Vantage DC portfolio
The multi-billion dollar deal is the first big investment by Colony since it changed CEOs
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Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for IT overhaul
Deutsche will work with Google to get a much needed update to its systems
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Interxion opens first phase of converted WWII submarine base
Digital Realty's Interxion has finally converted Marseille's Martha into a data center
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GDS Holdings raises $505m from Hillhouse Capital and STT GDC
The money will be used to further GDS's expansion plans
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Meeza to build fourth Doha, Qatar data center
Laying the ground work for when hyperscalers move in
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GIGA Data Centers asks for tax incentives for Tennessee facility
The building used to store some of the US' nuclear secrets
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Finnish data center modernization firm Konehuone acquired by NetNordic
NetNordic hopes to expand its presence in Finland
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Samsung Electronics develops EUV-5nm chip production line
The Korean company's factory will be fully operational next year
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Strategic Capital Fund Management hires Chris Flynn to oversee data center division
The new hire comes with a lot of experience with data centers and telecommunications
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Virginian senator promises incentives to keep Northern Virginia hub growing
Tax breaks are coming to encourage development southwards
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US weather agency to triple processing power with two Cray systems
The HPCs will be collaborating with other systems elsewhere in the US