The French industrial group Legrand has completed its acquisition of Universal Electric Corporation (UEC), makers of Starline busway products. The acquisition was announced in February, but was only finalized thisRead More →
Cloud pushes spending to new heights. Synergy Research Group reports that worldwide spend on data center hardware and software grew by 17 percent in 2018, to $150 billion. Public cloudRead More →
Planning permission has been granted for Nautilus’ floating data center in Ireland. Limerick council approved the scheme, despite complaints from local businesses that worried the size of the barge-based facilityRead More →
Canadian data center operator Cologix has acquired Montreal-based infrastructure provider Metro Optic. With this acquisition, Cologix adds an interconnection hub in Montreal, hyperscale capacity in Markham, Ontario, and access toRead More →
The US Air Force has deployed four new computing clusters, with the most powerful clocking in at 4.87 peak petaflops of performance. The first with shared capabilities. The systems willRead More →
The cloud giant has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to make Azure Cloud locally available. Microsoft has opened two new data centers in CapeRead More →