In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including acquisition, AI, cloud, submarine cables and data centre news.
Here are our highlights:
MONDAY:
Interxion partners pccw global to land peace cable in marseille
Interxion has formed an agreement with PCCW Global to locate the PEACE subsea cable's termination and interconnection equipment in Interxion's MRS2 data centre in Marseille, France.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3oUAlZV
wingu.africa breaks ground on hyperscale data centre in Ethiopia
Pan East African data centre operator wingu.africa broke ground on its hyperscale data centre park located in the ICT Park, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2M54lnu
TUESDAY:
Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate European cloud market
The European cloud market has grown more than threefold since the start of 2017, reaching €5.9 billion ($6.9 billion) in the third quarter of 2020, according to Synergy Research Group.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2LM3jwz
Green allocates $560m to data centre project in Switzerland
Switzerland based data centre provider Green is building its second data centre campus located near Zurich, which will house three high-performance data centres and a business park.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3oZW5n1
WEDNESDAY:
Atos, IBM Collaborate to Develop Industry-specific Automation Solutions using AI and Hybrid Cloud
Atos and IBM on Tuesday announced the expansion of a strategic global alliance to help companies accelerate their digital transformation and optimise business processes.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3iwx8xq
SubOptic Association Launches the SubOptic Foundation
The SubOptic Association , the industry-led, International, non-profit association dedicated to promoting the development and sustainability of global fiber-optic subsea cable and connectivity infrastructure, has announced the launch of the SubOptic Foundation.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2XWA7Wi
THURSDAY:
Digital Fortress acquires colocation business Atmosera Inc.
Colocation solutions provider Digital Fortress has announced its acquisition of the colocation business of Atmosera Inc. This deal will extend the company’s footprint to 10 data centre facilities with colocation, network, and cloud services for large and mid-size enterprises.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3p2RqAQ
Caring by sharing: German operators team up to plug 'grey spots'
The operator has signed a network sharing agreement with both Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, encompassing 1,200 sites.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39Od1qt
FRIDAY:
BT snags a $40M contract to provide services to Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
BT has landed a $40 million contract to provide software-defined network services to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39S34YY
MTS, Vodafone Extend Partnership to Focus on Market Knowledge and Global Expertise
Mobile TeleSystems, Russia’s largest mobile operator and Vodafone Group, a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa, this week announced the extension of the companies’ existing strategic partnership through to 2023.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/396yKuw
