Month: October 2018

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Solar Farms to Power Facebook Data Centers

Facebook to be Powered by Solar Energy Facebook announced on their newsroom blog that they are committing to lower emissions and to be 100% powered by renewable energy.  “Today (August 28, 2018), we are committing to reducing our greenhouse gas…

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AWS – To Launch Cloud Data Centers in Africa after 14 Years

AWS – To Launch Cloud Data Centers in South Africa after 14 Years! It actually started in South Africa: The powerful Amazon’s cloud-computing platform and web services (AWS) was originally built in 2006 at the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)…

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Colo-D building a 150MW data center campus near Montreal, Canada

Colo-D plans a 150 MW Facility in Montreal The IT solutions company, COLO-D, has just announced plans to open up a new location in Quebec. COLO-D operates several major data centers which focus on providing colocation and cloud services to…

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China Tell Trump to Buy Huawei To Avoid Spying

China’s Advice to President Trump On October 25 the New York Times reported that there are Chinese and Russian spies that are listening to president Trump’s calls when he is calling his friends on one of his iPhones.  Apparently, Mr…

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IBM Acquisition of Red Hat

IBM to buy Red Hat for $34bn IBM is intended to acquire Linux’s Red Hat for $34bn. It was announced by both companies on October 28. The offer presented by IBM was of $190 per Red Hat share, and increase…

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Upbeat 2019 Profit Forecast

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Upbeat 2019 Profit Forecast Betting on Edge Tech Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, the multinational enterprise information technology company based in Palo Alto, California, has given an earnings forecast for fiscal 2019 that went above some analysts’ estimates.…

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Microsoft finalizes the acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion

Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub for $7.5BN Microsoft on their official blog announced that in October 26, 2018 they completed their acquisition of GitHub.  They said “the two companies will work together to empower developers to achieve more at every stage…

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Alibaba Building Two UK Data Centres

ALIBABA CLOUD BUILDING TWO DATA CENTRES IN THE UK Alibaba Cloud is a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. In the last three years, it has become one of the most used cloud services globally and is expanding its cloud data…

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AWS the Continuous Cloud Market Leader / AWS on Top

AWS remain #1 Amazon Web Services (AWS) kept their position as the world’s biggest cloud provider and the supplier to beat during the third quarter of 2018. The result came on October 25th  when the company posted its financial performance,…

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Supermicro to review hardware for malicious chips, “despite the lack of any proof”

Supermicro to Review Hardware Bloomberg’s extensive report on October 4 claims that the Chinese Government had a plan to infiltrate data of companies like the CIA, Amazon, Apple, just to name a few of the almost 30 companies targeted. They…

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