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ROKiT Williams Racing has chosen Tata Communications as the team’s Official Digital Transformation Partner. ROKiT Williams Racing will benefit from Tata Communications’ seven-season track record in the reliable delivery of network, hosting, broadcasting and security services to the F1® ecosystem. The team will use Tata Communications’ digital infrastructure to enable real-ti...

The veil of secrecy the datacentre industry operates under is doing it no favours when it comes to attracting talent, according to Data Centre World panel A lack of prominent role models and poor visibility of potential career paths are two reasons for the recruitment challenges the datacentre industry continues to face, experts claim. During a panel session at the Data Cent...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now live and ready for business in Zurich, Switzerland. The tech giant announced this week that the launch is a move to increase its presence both in Switzerland and wider Europe. This is now Google’s sixth region in Europe and 19th worldwide, providing businesses in Switzerland more opportunities with lower latency access to their data and wor...

The trio China Telecom Global, Daily-Tech and Global Switch have come together to launch Global Switch’s Singapore Woodlands data centre. Built at a cost of $280m, the new 269,097 sq ft data centre is located in the Woodlands district in the north of Singapore. The company have revealed that it is physically distanced from the existing Global Switch Tai Seng data centre, for...

Equinix, Inc. , the global interconnection and data center company, has this week announced that three executives will move into new roles to address the growing opportunity for Equinix as a strategic platform on which customers architect their digital business. The changes will optimize the company's customer-centric operations as Equinix continues to address increasing cus...

CyrusOne, a premier global data center REIT, has announced that its London I and London II data centre facilities are now running on a 100% renewable energy tariff, a move which the company says will transfer energy annual usage equivalent to 52,000 households to zero-emissions sources. Comprising a combined 23MW of IT power, both CyrusOne’s London I data centre in Slough an...

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have announced their commitment to developing open standards in the world of data centre and cloud computing, with the introduction of the Compute Express Link (CXL) standards group. Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Intel and Microsoft want to make sure high-speed CPU-to-Device and CPU-...

NVIDIA and Mellanox have this week announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Once complete, the combination ...

SD-WAN is generating a lot of noise at the moment, and it’s no wonder when IDC predicts the SD-WAN market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 40% until 2022. The reasons for its growing popularity aren’t that hard to discern. From a technological point of view, it promises to simplify operations while allowing central management, rapid new site configuration and quic...

It’s been a busy start to 2019 for Slack. Since Microsoft Teams launched their freemium version to challenge Slack’s own free version, we’ve seen incremental changes across their product and brand. From the latest launch of Block Kit to their upcoming IPO, let’s cover off what’s been happening at Slack since the turn of the year. Block Kit Slack describe Block Kit as a new “...