Again in July, we touched on how UK knowledge facilities had been struggling to remain cool by unseasonably heat temperatures.
5 months later, our telecom studying listing begins off with a really completely different story: Equinix is contemplating a multi-year undertaking to increase its knowledge middle temperatures.
Equinix’s repair for top energy payments? Hotter knowledge facilities
With a purpose to cut back electrical payments and preserve vitality, Equinix could quickly flip the temperature up on its knowledge facilities. This undertaking would increase knowledge middle temperatures from 73°F to 80°F over the span of a number of years.
In response to Jon Lin, Govt Vice President and Normal Supervisor of Information Middle Providers for Equinix, “The gear that is at present in our knowledge facilities has been effectively designed and effectively examined below greater working temperatures.”
(Jim Poole, Equinix Vice President of Enterprise Improvement, was lately on our podcast to debate NaaS, Equinix’s function available in the market as an information middle supplier, and extra. Catch that episode right here.)
Turkcell Unsuccessful With Iran Lawsuit
South Africa’s MTN Group has introduced the top of a decade-long authorized battle centered on its Iranian subsidiary, MTN Irancell.
The case was centered on allegations of impropriety associated to the Iranian authorities’s 2005 determination to oust Turkcell as a shareholder in Iran’s first non-public sector cellular licensee, Irancell, and set up MTN as a substitute.
Analysis Analyst Pete Bell revisits the background of this case in his newest tendencies piece.
Google, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft awarded Pentagon cloud deal of as much as $9 billion mixed
The U.S. Division of Protection has awarded its revamped cloud-computing contract to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle.
“All 4 of the know-how firms have received indefinite supply, indefinite amount, or IDIQ, contracts, that means that they will contain an indefinite quantity of companies for a particular time frame.”
Take a look at this CNBC article to be taught extra about this contract—and why the award is especially notable for Oracle.
Latin American Market Developments: Brazil and Mexico
Our analysts have been busy attending conferences and gathering market intelligence from most of the most outstanding telecom firms all over the world.
In a brand new weblog, Senior Analysis Analyst Peter Wooden recaps the dialogue themes that stood out on the Futurecom and Mexico Join 2022 conferences.
Hypothetical Community Sequence #5: Let’s Throw Bandwidth on the Drawback
We simply wrapped up our five-part hypothetical community sequence.
This weblog sequence dives into a few of the approaches that WAN managers would possibly take to stability efficiency and value issues. It combines our enterprise port and SD-WAN overlay pricing knowledge and applies it to situations we’ve seen WAN managers contemplate as an instance how these methods can impression community prices.
You’ll be able to learn the primary installment right here.
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