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Fully automated edge data centre launched for commercial service

Finish-based telecoms company Elisa Oyj has achieved a significant milestone in the field of edge computing with the successful deployment of its first fully automated edge data centre site, which is the second edge site to go into commercial production this year.

This groundbreaking project combines Wind River Studio Cloud Platform as the production-grade distributed Kubernetes solution for managing cloud infrastructure, User Plane Function (UPF) application from Elisa’s...

1 August 2023 | Data Centres

DataBank adds $350m financing to US edge data centre expansion

DataBank Inc., a connectivity and cloud provider, has secured $350 million in financing for an expansion of its US data centre infrastructure.

The financing, led by TD Securities, includes a 5-year loan of $175 million as well as a delayed loan of $125 million and $50 million in revolving credit.

The $350 million package comes weeks after the Dallas, Texas-based company announced a $715 million financing on 1 March.

DataBank will use the new funds to...

12 April 2023 | Applications

Zenlayer and Digital Edge bring edge cloud services to East Asia

Zenlayer, an edge cloud service provider, and Digital Edge, an Asian digital infrastructure firm, are working together to deliver edge cloud services throughout East and Southeast Asia.

The partnership aims to give local cloud and service providers a one-stop digital hub for multiple edge solutions, helping them access global interconnectivity and reduce costs.

Tapping in to Digital Edge’s extended geographic coverage and energy-efficient data centres will support the...

19 January 2023 | Applications

Equinix and Aviatrix partner on encrypted multicloud solution

Data centre provider Equinix has partnered with cloud networking company Aviatrix for a joint solution designed to help enterprises manage multicloud networks.

The move fits in to Equinix’s broader strategy to provide customers with digital services designed to accelerate innovation.

Aviatrix Edge will be available on Equinix’s Network Edge platform across more than 25 of the company’s data centres via a high-performance encrypted connection.

“We are...

12 December 2022 | Cloud

IDrive expands European data centre footprint with 4 new locations

IDrive Compute, a VPS hosting solution from IDrive, has expanded its international network of edge computing locations with a number of new data centres in Europe.

Specialising in cloud storage, online backup, remote access, and compliance technologies, the company's services help more than 4 million customers back up over 500 petabytes of data.

With its growth into Europe, IDrive hopes to help businesses host multiple virtual instances with physical servers and robust...

13 June 2022 | Cloud

DataQube secures €26m from French investment management company

DataQube Global, said to be the developer of the world’s first standalone edge data centre module, has acquired a €26 million funding from RGREEN INVEST, an investment management company focused on green tech projects.

With more than €800m already invested in InfraGreen and renewable energy markets, this is the company’s first venture in the data centre industry.

DataQube’s person-free layout is said to offer a significantly lower carbon footprint...

2 December 2021 | Data Centres

American Tower buys CoreSite for $10bn in mobile edge expansion

American Tower, the Fortune 500 communications infrastructure operator, has announced a $10.1 billion (£7.5bn) deal to buy data centre real estate company CoreSite Realty Corporation.

Through the deal, American Tower hopes to leverage CoreSite’s infrastructure to build on its own mobile edge compute offering.

American Tower CEO Tom Bartlett said: “We are in the early stages of a cloud-based, connected and globally distributed digital transformation that will evolve...

17 November 2021 | 5G

Forced Physics DCT deploys new edge data centre cooling design

Desert and mountains in Phoenix, Arizona.

Data centre cooling startup, Forced Physics DCT, has entered the edge computing market with its outdoor server enclosure that can operate without water or traditional air cooling.

Sun West Engineering is the manufacturer of the unit, as well as Force Physics' first customer. Based in scorching Phoenix, Arizona, the deployment of the first Edgeility System at Sun West’s headquarters will be an excellent test of the module’s ability to operate at temperatures in excess of...

19 August 2021 | Applications

Africa Data Centres taps Zadara for edge cloud services

Data facilities provider Africa Data Centres and IT service provider Global Sense have added Zadara’s edge cloud services to their marketplace in South Africa.

In doing so, the companies plan to expand the services into all of Africa Data Centres’ locations and serve enterprise customers throughout the continent.

With data centres located across Africa’s major regional business and trade hubs, the addition of Zadara’s flexible storage and networking capabilities...

27 July 2021 | Applications

Schneider Electric enhances European micro data centre offering

Schneider Electric, an energy and automation digital solutions provider, has revealed that its EcoStruxure Micro Data Center R-Series for rugged indoor environments will be available in Europe by June 2021.

The new micro data centres are said to offer a resilient and quick-to-deploy solution to help manage edge computing infrastructure within challenging industrial and manufacturing environments.

As more industrial operators deploy Industry 4.0 technologies to...