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DigitalBridge Group appointed Tae E. Ahn as Managing Director and Head of Asia Capital Formation at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Based in Singapore, he will work alongside DigitalBridge’s existing team with a focus on capital formation, coinvestment and client relationship management across Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining DigitalBridge, he served as Senior Client Relationship Manager and Head […]
Digital Realty launched ServiceFabric, an interconnectivity solution and orchestration platform positioned as the industry’s largest open fabric-of-fabrics. ServiceFabric Connect, which was developed in-house, is an orchestration platform available to Digital Realty customers immediately in 61 sites and 32 metro markets worldwide. The platform pulls together network and cloud connectivity elements from multiple sources, including those […]
Deutsche Telekom will sell 51 percent of GD Towers comprising its tower assets in Germany and Austria, to Digital Bridge and Brookfield at 17.5 billion euros enterprise value on a cash and debt free basis. With around 800 employees, GD Towers operates more than 40,000 sites in Germany and Austria and has a successful track […]
A new Google Cloud region has opened in Paris, France. The new France region (europe-west 9) launches with three cloud zones and Google Cloud’s standard set of services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, CloudSQL, and Cloud Identity. In addition, it offers core controls to enable organizations to meet their unique […]
DigitalBridge Group will sell an equity stake in its DataBank company to a consortium led by Swiss Life Asset Management AG and EDF Invest. DataBank’s portfolio consists of more than 65 data centers, 20 interconnection hubs in more than 27 markets, on-ramps to an ecosystem of cloud providers, and a modular edge data center platform. […]
Nokia plans to integrate Microsoft Azure Arc capabilities into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) platform for Industry 4.0 use cases. Through the integration, Nokia MXIE and private wireless solution customers have seamless access to the full Azure ecosystem offering on MXIE. Microsoft Azure Arc offers a simple way to deploy and manage Azure […]
DC BLOX, which operates data centers across the southeastern U.S., has acquired the southeastern fiber assets from Light Source Communications and Ascendant Capital Fiber, including a unique dark fiber network connecting South Carolina to Georgia that is currently in development. DC BLOX recently unveiled plans for a new Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, […]
Juniper has revamped its Contrail Networking with a Kubernetes-native architecture that provides an automated, high performance and scalable cloud-native networking solution. Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2) supports Kubernetes and OpenShift use cases. CN2 integrates as a foundational piece of cluster infrastructure by employing the Kubernetes extension framework of custom resources. Juniper has also extended Lens, […]
Marvell has more than doubled its growth year-over-year (YOY) in cloud data center Ethernet switch port shipments, based on 650 Group’s quarterly switch report for Q4’21 released last month. The company said its share of the overall data center switch market grew from 6% to 10% YOY and specifically within the 50G SerDes segment of […]
What’s hot at DesignCon22? Sanjay Gajendra talks about AsteraLabs’ Smart Cable Modules for 100G/Lane Ethernet Switch-to-Switch and Switch-to-Server interconnects. https://youtu.be/ndTKntb_0_A Astera Labs’ module enables copper-based Smart Electrical Cables at up to 800 GbE Monday, November 15, 2021 AEC, Astera, Data Centers Astera Labs introduced its new Taurus Smart Cable Module portfolio to overcome performance bottlenecks in […]
Fungible introduced a means by which data centers could centralize their existing GPU assets into a single resource pool to be attached to servers on demand. The Fungible GPU-Connect (FGC) solution leverages the company’s DPU to dynamically compose GPU and CPU resources across an Ethernet network. Instead of dedicated GPUs sitting idle most of the […]
Funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Global Infrastructure Partners, completed their previously-announced acquisition of CyrusOne for $15 billion in cash. “Closing this transaction begins an exciting new chapter for CyrusOne as we continue our global expansion with the benefit of significant resources and expertise that KKR and GIP are able to […]
TREX Regional Exchanges Oy, which is based in Tampere, Finland, will deploy the Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router platforms running on the Nokia SR Linux network operating system (NOS) to upgrade its network. The Nokia SR Linux allows the collection of operations data – such as fine-grained system state, configuration settings and real-time network analytics – […]
EllaLink said its new fiber optic submarine cable linking Europe with Latin America enables gamers on both continents to play online matches with 30% less latency. EllaLink has entered into a partnership with IP Telecom – which provides differentiated IP transit access to the main content servers spread across the European continent – and with […]
KT and Savills Korea announced plans for a new 9,000 km submarine cable system linking 6 countries in APAC: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore. Savills Korea and KT held an MOU signing ceremony at KT’s Songpa office building located at Songpa-gu, Seoul. KT will conduct consulting based on its years of experience […]
American Tower completed its previously announced acquisition of CoreSite Realty Corporation. Tom Bartlett, American Tower’s Chief Executive Officer stated, “We are thrilled to welcome CoreSite’s exceptional team to American Tower and are ready to work together to create long-term shareholder value. As 5G deployments and wireless and wireline convergence accelerate, we expect to leverage CoreSite’s […]
Equinix and Ellalink, which recently inaugurated service on its high-capacity cable between Latin America and Europe, report that the new system is delivering a 50% increase in network performance between data centers in Brazil and Portugal and Spain when compared to routes that had to previously transit through North America. EllaLink’s subsea cable system provides […]
Deutsche Telekom announced that companies from regulated industries can now host data covered by data privacy in the Open Telekom Cloud, which is provided from Telekom’s data centers in Europe. All data remains in Europe. Deutche Telekom says these data centers are among the most secure and modern facilities of their kind in the world. […]
