Equinix Expands Renewable Energy Footprint with Singapore PPA Deal
Equinix, Inc. and Sembcorp Industries, a provider of energy and urban solutions, have signed Singapore’s first renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA). This move is in line with Singapore’s Green Plan 2030, which aims to transition all corporate sectors—including data centers—to cleaner energy sources. This agreement entails the procurement of output from a 75 megawatt-peak […]
Data Center Outages: Expensive. Disruptive. Preventable?
On October 14, 2023, a data center outage brought digital banking and financial services to a grinding halt in Singapore. Customers of at least two major banks were left in the lurch, as credit card transactions were declined, internet banking and POS terminals stopped working, ATMs froze, and one lost access to their own hard-earned […]
Yotta partners with BLC to build Nepal’s first SuperCloud Data Center
Yotta Data Services, a prominent data center provider from India, and BLC Holding Pvt. Ltd., a diversified entity encompassing manufacturing and services, have entered into a joint venture to build a state-of-the-art SuperCloud Data Center facility, in Ramkot, near Kathmandu, Nepal. Spread across an area of more than three acres, the 60,000 sq.ft. facility named […]
Acronis opens Cyber Cloud Data Center in UAE
Acronis, a global cyber security company, has announced the opening of its Cyber Cloud Data Center in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is Acronis’ first such facility in the Middle East, and is a strategic investment given the growing Cloud and Data Center market in the region. Acronis is a technology company […]