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North Americas Data Center Market Expands with Rising Investments
📅 - The North Americandata centermarket experienced significant expansion in the second half of 2024, driven by an unprecedented surge in demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads, and enterprise digital transformation, according toCBREs latest report. As operators raced to deploy new capacity, key markets saw record-breaking supply growth, increasing investment activity, and a shift in pricing dynamics.
It reflects an evolving landscape that prioritizes scalable power capacity, energy-efficient infrastructure, and strategic location selection.
Major data center hubs saw a 34 percent year-over-year rise in supply, reaching 6,922.6 megawatts, a notable acceleration from [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - OVHcloud US Expands Cloud Network with Local Zone in Seattle - OVHcloud US has expanded its cloud infrastructure with the launch of a new Local Zone in Seattle, reinforcing its commitment to providing low-latency, secure, and scalable cloud services to businesses on the U.S. West Coast. This latest addition strengthens OVHclouds regional presence, complementing its existing Local Zones in major metropolitan areas, including Dallas, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Palo Alto, Miami, and Atlanta.
By bringing cloud resources closer to end users, OVHcloud's Local Zones aim to enhance performance, data sovereignty, and compliance while meeting the increasing demand for cloud services in business and industrial hubs. This expansion reflects the [...]
More than 1,000 businesses worldwide rely on Spinnaker to support third-party software for Oracle, SAP, and VMware. The company's new Cloud Managed Services offering meets a crucial need for businesses wishing to migrate to the cloud, and with Spinnaker, they can do so at their own speed without being constrained by vendor requirements.
By using Spinnaker's Cloud Managed Services, businesses can: Without having to give up on old products, go to the cloudTake charge: Instead of imposing a vendor's roadmap on businesses, [...]
📅 - Xen 4.20 Released: Improved Security, Performance, Architecture Support - With the release of Xen 4.20, the Linux Foundation-hosted open-source hypervisor Xen Project has improved security, optimized speed, and increased architectural support for x86, Arm, and early-stage support for RISC-V and PPC. The latest version would further solidify Xen's position as a top open-source hypervisor for cloud computing, dedicated hosting, and corporate applications by introducing security upgrades, better virtualization performance, and other key improvements.
"Security and performance remain at the heart of Xen's development," said Kelly Choi, the Xen Project's Community Manager. "Xen 4.20 represents a significant milestone in virtualization technology and empowers [...]
📅 - Lonestar Advances Lunar Data Storage with In-Space Operations - In a landmark achievement for space-based data infrastructure, Lonestar Data Holdings has completed a successful commercial test of its first-ever lunar data center while en route to the Moon. This milestone would mark a significant step toward establishing resilient off-Earth data storage, offering an additional layer of security and redundancy for critical information.
The Freedom data center payload, developed by Lonestar, has already entered lunar orbit and is now approaching its final destination aboard Intuitive Machines' **Athena** Lunar Lander. Launched on February 26, the payload has traveled over 300,000 kilometers and undergone extensive testing in CisLunar orbit - an [...]
📅 - Lumos Expands to Georgia with 5,000-Mile Fiber Network - Lumos, a provider of 100% fiber-optic Internet, has announced its expansion into Georgia with a significant infrastructure investment. The company will construct 5,000 miles of fiber-optic network across the state, marking its entry into its ninth operational territory. This development aims to provide high-speed Internet access to more than 320,000 businesses and homes across several Georgia towns, bridging the digital divide in underserved communities.
Lumos CEO Brian Stading emphasized the broader impact of this expansion, highlighting the role of high-speed connectivity in economic growth, education, and innovation. He stated that Lumos' fully fiber-optic technology, which offers [...]
📅 - GlobalConnect Completes Phase 1 of Nordic Wave Subsea Cable - GlobalConnect has successfully completed the first phase of the Nordic Wave project, an EU-backed initiative aimed at strengthening the digital infrastructure of the Nordic region. By upgrading existing fiber networks, the project enhances high-capacity data transmission and resilience between Northern and Central Europe, supporting economic growth, innovation, and security.
The first phase of the project, spanning the route from Stockholm to Lule, leverages the existing subsea fiber backbone to deliver up to 27 terabits per second of data capacity. This upgrade would significantly improve connectivity, supporting millions of simultaneous high-definition video streams or large-scale [...]
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