NEXTDC Announce 300MW Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Australia
NEXTDC Limited announced a major milestone in their long-term data centre development strategy, securing a new data centre site in Western Sydney. S4 Sydney is a significant long-term expansion opportunity that will provide data centre services to Hyperscale Cloud Providers in a new Availability Zone within the Sydney market not currently serviced by NEXTDC’s existing […]
Digital Realty to Build Second Data Center (64MW) in South Korea
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) announced it has acquired a land parcel in Seoul, South Korea expected to support the development of up to 64 megawatts of critical IT capacity. The parcel is located at Gurae-dong, Gimpo City in northwest Seoul, approximately 23 kilometers from Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10), Digital Realty’s first facility in South Korea, […]
PLDT eying sale of tower assets for US$800 million
Philippines’ biggest telecommunications and digital services provider by market value PLDT is looking to sell its local towers. According to Bloomberg, PLDT is looking at a deal that would fetch about US$800 million to 1 billion, according to sources in the know as reported by Bloomberg. The transaction would involve PLDT selling the towers and […]
Adani Enterprises acquires land in Noida to build one of the largest DC in India
Adani Enterprises has been allotted over 34,275 sq metre of land in Noida to set up a data centre with an investment of around Rs 2,400 crore. According to reports, the land has been allotted in the commercial Sector 62. The project is expected to generate employment for 1,350 people and fetch a revenue of […]
Intel collaborates with CBSE and Ministry of Education of India to launch ‘AI For All’
Intel in collaboration with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Ministry of Education of India announced the launch of the ‘AI For All’ initiative with the purpose of creating a basic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) for everyone in India. Based on Intel’s AI for citizens program, AI for All is a 4-hour, self-paced […]
Freightify raises $2.5 in Pre-Series A funding
Freightify, the ocean rate management platform has secured $2.5mn in Pre-Series A funding. The funding was led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital with the participation of Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns, and Blume Founders Fund. Existing Investor Vinod Kumar Talreja also participated in the round, the company said. Freightify will use the proceeds to invest […]
Apollo Hospital Group and Microsoft India collaborate to provide digital healthcare solutions
Apollo 24|7 the digital Arm of the Apollo Hospitals Group and Microsoft India are collaborating to launch Enterprise Solution that can be utilised by organisations to provide their employees access to a holistic health and wellness solution within the Microsoft work suite. The Enterprise Solution as integrated by Apollo 24|7 has been tested in a […]
How demand for Hyperscale DC is rising in South Asia
The increase in the demand for data centres and the adoption of the latest technologies is resulting in an increased demand for hyperscale data centres to meet these demands. W.Media’s ‘South Asia Cloud & Data Centre Awards Summit’ panel discussion on ‘Building Hyperscale data centres to meet South Asia’s digital economy demands’ discussed aspects such […]
Yondr and Everstone Group to set up Data Centres in India with $1 billion investment
Hyperscale data centre company Yondr Group, in a joint venture partnership with Everstone Group, is investing $1 billion to open data centres across multiple locations in India. Operating under the brand name EverYondr, the first data centre will come up in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region for which land and power have already been acquired. This […]
Keppel DC REIT acquires Data Centre in China
Keppel DC REIT has entered into agreements with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. (Bluesea) and its parent company, Guangdong Bluesea Mobile Development Co. Ltd., to acquire Guangdong Data Centre, a fully-fitted data centre facility in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, for RMB 635.9 million (approximately S$132.0 million). This is Keppel DC REIT’s first data centre acquisition […]