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Cloud jobs are predicted to be one of the strongest tech careers of 2020, keeping up with previous years. An estimated 83% of enterprises will be in the cloud this year. By 2022, Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud services market will hit $331.2 billion, which would make the cloud services industry three times bigger than overall IT services. The rapid growth of clo...

Microsoft has promised that by 2030 it will be carbon negative, and by 2050 it will have removed all the carbon it has emitted since its founding in 1975. To become negative, the company will have to not just reduce its carbon emissions and shift to renewable resources, but actually offset its carbon footprint. The challenge ahead With the science behind anthropocentric clim...

January 22, 2020 - Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, announced today that it has expanded its point of presence (PoP) at Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral multi-customer data centers across Europe and Asia-Pacific, with highly resilient power and cooling infrastructure and sop...

CityFibre has reportedly reconvened talks with TalkTalk for the sale of its UK wholesale fibre carrier, FibreNation for approximately £200 million. According to Sky News, the previously suspended talks are back on and as discussions are at an advanced stage, a deal could be agreed as soon as some time this month. The negotiations previously fell apart due to the Labour Party...

Google Cloud has signed a deal with Europe-based global aviation firm Lufthansa Group, which will underpin the Group’s goal to optimise operations performance. Google Cloud’s infrastructure and machine learning capabilities will support Lufthansa Group’s new operation platform. That platform will simultaneously consider a number of factors of a stable operation, such as airc...

Global technology solutions provider NTT Ltd has launched a new Global Data Centers division, which incorporates its e-shelter, Gyron, Netmagic, NTT Indonesia Nexcenter, RagingWire and other data center companies. These companies formerly sat under the NTT Communications brand. The newly branded division operates one of the largest data centre platforms in the world, with ov...

The latest Datacentrepricing report on the UK data centre market from Tariff Consultancy hows that 3rd party data centre space has increased by 48 percent over the last four years, with power increasing by 100 percent. Data Centre C expansion in the UK in 2nd-half 2019 was in line with 1st-half 2019 at around 27,000 sq mt. New space announced comes from NTT, Virtus and xScal...

London engineering centre will see significant increase in workforce, as Facebook seeks growth in post Brexit United Kingdom Facebook is to ramp up its UK operations with the news that it will hire 1,000 people in London in 2020. Over half the roles will be technology based, Reuters reported, with the social networking giant seeking to grow its biggest engineering centre out...

Businesses using on-premises video gear from Cisco can now get access to cloud services, while keeping their video infrastructure in place. A new service, called Cisco Webex Edge for Devices, lets businesses connect on-premises video devices to cloud services like Webex Control Hub and the Webex Assistant. Customers get access to some cloud features but continue to host vide...

Tata Communications was named the Asia-Pacific Managed Unified Communications Service Provider of the Year at the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards banquet. Krishna Baidya, Head of Connected Work Research, ICT, Frost & Sullivan noted that Tata Communications’ capabilities of helping organizations define their technology architecture and delivering th...