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Capacity caught up with Dr Peter Zhou, president of Huawei Data Storage Product Line to discuss the launch and potential of AI in data storage and beyond. -
Mobile data traffic in Europe will almost triple over the next five years driving pressure on network investment, a report from the GSMA states.
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French fibre and equipment company Celeste has introduced a data-centre-in-a-box for businesses willing to host and protect their data on-site in a dedicated, sovereign and secure space.
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AMS-IX, one of the largest internet exchange operators in the world and Equinix-owned MainData Nigeria have signed an MoU to operate and grow internet exchange services in Africa.
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The French telecoms regulator wants to add information about data centres and consumer devices to its sustainability audit for the digital sector.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence at the iColo data centre in Mombasa, MBA One.
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Quantum Loophole, the company that is building a vast data centre campus in Maryland, has started work on the QLoop fibre network that will connect it to Ashburn, Virginia.
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Qatar’s Ooredoo is reportedly engaged in active conversations to sell its business units in Myanmar.
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Ireland’s privacy regulator has doubled down on its order to stop media service traffic to the US from Facebook and Instagram.
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Virgin Media O2 has launched hyperfast gigabit-speed broadband for small businesses, offering what it claims to be the fastest widely available business broadband in the UK.
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Equinix is to build its third data centre in Mumbai, at a cost of more than US$86 million.
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One year on from its merger, Virgin Media O2 has revealed its customers have smashed previous data usage records – with 39 billion gigabytes of data used across their fixed and mobile networks since June 1, 2021.
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Cloud providers launched 18 new cloud regions last year, well above the average of 15 a year that they have achieved over the past 10 years.
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HGC Global Communications has established an agreement with Digital Realty to boost customers’ edge connectivity.
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Ethiopia’s Amhara Bank has signed an agreement with Ethio Telecom to use the incumbent operator’s data centres to improve service to customers.
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Two-thirds of telecoms companies are interested in non-traditional data sources and open banking.
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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) reports that it exchanged over 26,85 exabytes of data in 2021, up 18% from 2020.
