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The paint has barely dried on phase 1 of Teraco’s huge new expansion of its Isando data centre but the company is already embarking on its next big build: a massive, R4-billion facility north of OR Tambo International Airport.
Microsoft’s cloud computing business slightly re-accelerated and its Teams collaboration software won new users, as a pandemic-driven shift to working from home drove quarterly results ahead of investor targets.
Semiconductor designer AMD said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx in a US$35-billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel in the data centre chip market.
SAP said on Monday it was going all in on its shift to cloud computing as it abandoned medium-term profitability targets and cautioned that its business would take longer than expected to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Huawei Technologies, already getting squeezed out of Europe’s vast market for the next generation of telecommunications equipment, is under siege in another fast-growing business: cloud computing.
AMD is in advanced discussions to buy Xilinx in a takeover that could be valued at US$30-billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nvidia on Monday laid out a multi-year plan to create a new kind of chip for data centres aimed at siphoning off more functions from its chief rival Intel.
Dimension Data and its parent, Japan’s NTT, on Monday announced plans to build new data centre facilities in Johannesburg offering 12MW of IT load.
Snowflake soared as much as 130% in its trading debut on Wednesday after raising $3.4-billion in an initial public offering, giving it a market value of more than $70-billion.