Lumen expands edge services into Europe

Europe on a globe map.

Edge solutions provider Lumen Technologies is bringing its edge infrastructure and services across the pond from American to European customers.

The expansion is part of Lumen's continued investment in next-generation solutions that transform digital experiences and meet the demands of today's global businesses.

With the update, enterprise and public sector customers in Europe can now deploy applications and workloads at the cloud edge.

Lumen has already begun...

15 July 2022 | Data Centres

Iceotope cooling to help Intel and HPE reach sustainability goals

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Iceotope Technologies, an IT cooling solutions firm, is joining forces with Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to try and reduce edge data centres’ energy usage by 30 percent.

By integrating Iceotope’s precision immersion cooling technology into edge data centres, the three companies hope to faster reach their sustainability goals of net zero operations.

The Ku:I data centre, the product of the companies’ collaboration, reduces energy consumption and...

8 July 2022 | Data Centres

DataBank expands US edge infrastructure in £590m data centre deal

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DataBank, a connectivity and managed services provider, has closed its acquisition of four existing Houston, TX area data centres from CyrusOne for $670 million (£590m). The transaction makes Houston the 28th metro market in DataBank's US portfolio, expanding what is already the largest edge infrastructure footprint in the country.

The four Houston facilities collectively add more than 300,000 square feet of raised-floor data centre capacity, and 42.5 megawatts of power,...

10 March 2022 | Data Centres

One Stop Systems unveils AI transportable server for edge deployments

One Stop Systems Rigel Edge Supercomputer

One Stop Systems, an AI solutions developer at the edge, has unveiled its new flagship AI transportable compute server, the Rigel Edge Supercomputer.

The Rigel is the first edge computer of its kind that utilises the highest-performance NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU platform with the latest NVIDIA NVLink GPU interconnect in place of traditional PCI Express GPUs.

Due to its dense form factor, the Rigel is suited for deployments in tight spaces available at the edge, such as an...

25 November 2021 | AI

Schneider Electric globally releases edge data centre solution

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Schneider Electric, a multinational energy management company, has expanded its edge offering with the global release of data centres designed to support edge computing applications.

Its Easy Micro Data Centre Series is purpose-built to deliver all compute, storage, and necessary infrastructure to support edge applications at an affordable yet reliable speed.

The data centres are also network enabled for web-based remote monitoring and include add-on options for further...

19 October 2021 | Applications

Antin Infrastructure Partners snaps up UK data centres through Pulsant takeover

Wires in a date centre.

Antin Infrastructure Partners has acquired Pulsant, a provider of data centre and cloud infrastructure in the UK.

Pulsant owns and operates a portfolio of 10 data centres across seven cities in the UK. It provides essential data centre and cloud infrastructure, including colocation, private cloud, and network connectivity to more than 1,000 private enterprise and public sector customers.

Demand for UK data centre and cloud infrastructure is expected to continue growing...

3 August 2021 | Applications