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The High Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced a new joint venture. The duo will work together to build and deliver for HLRS a next-generation computer deemed to be 3.5 times faster than its current system, and the world’s fastest supercomputer for industrial production. HLRS has affectionately ...

Oracle has announced plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) hub in Reading, and will aim to double the AI development team there. The firm’s global AI development hub already works with firms and public services bodies to develop their AI capabilities, and by increasing its team, the hub hopes to up the pace of development of AI and machine learning for business ap...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be launching a cloud region in Milan within the next two years, which it says will allow it to better serve its Italian customers. As is its custom, the cloud provider's region will consist of three geographically separate availability zones - which can be one or several data centers - located in the administrative region of Lombardy. The regio...

Half year ended 30 September 2018 Operating revenue stable and up 3% in constant currency terms to S$8.40 billion Net profit down 60% due to a S$2 billion gain last year from partial divestment of NetLink Trust stake Underlying net profit down 21% to S$1.45 billion, due mainly to lower contributions from associates and a stronger Singapore dollar against regional and Austral...

The move will see the company re-focus its attention on the largest and most profitable clients from its existing customer base BT Group is to scale down its international operations, reducing the size of its Global Services customer base by around 80 per cent, according to reports in the press. BT Global Services' CEO, Bas Berger, told the Financial Times that he planned to...

Clare County Council have announced its plan for a one million sq ft data centre on the outskirts of Ennis, in mid-west Ireland, next year. The €400m planned data centre will be the largest in the region since the €850m costing 200,000 sq ft data centre planned by Apple for Athenry, which was scrapped early this year. The Council is seeking to amend the county development pl...

Telehouse, a leading global provider of data centre services, has announced this week that its London Docklands Data Centre campus has been selected by Microsoft as a second Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute location in London. Driven by customer demand in London, Microsoft has established an ExpressRoute site at Telehouse enabling a low latency and dedicated path to Microsoft's ...

WhatsApp Business is currently available on Android,and is free to download. WhatsApp Business was created so businesses could interact with customers easily by using tools to automate, sort and quickly respond to messages. With an uncanny resemblance to its consumer counterpart, WhatsApp, the business version of the app has seen huge Android adoption but iOS have been left ...

Paul Comerford has been appointed as Damovo's new CEO, four months after a major boardroom overhaul saw former CEO Glen Williams, executive chairman Matthew Riley and CFO Stuart Hall simultaneously leave the business. The mass departure of management execs followed the Brussels-based communications integrator being snapped up by new US private equity owner Eli Global. In a s...

Avaya Holdings Corp, has announced that Gaurav Passi, a recognized provider of the cloud-based communications industry, has joined Avaya as president of its cloud business group, the company said. Reporting to Jim Chirico, Avaya President and Chief Executive Officer, Passi will be responsible for further accelerating the company´s delivery of cloud-based solutions and drivin...