Data Centers

Hackers have gained access to login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world’s biggest businesses, including Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Alibaba, Huawei, and BMW AG. A cybersecurity firm and executives at four major US-based companies that were affected said the stolen credentials represented an unusual and serious danger.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the government will bring a National Data Governance policy, which will simplify the KYC process while anonymising individual data. The finance minister also said to enhance ease of doing business, more than 39,000 compliances have been reduced and over 3,400 legal provisions decriminalise...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it plans to invest an additional $35 billion (roughly Rs. 2,83,400 crore) to expand data centres in Virginia. The firm said it had invested the same amount in data centres in the state from 2011 to 2020, adding that the new investment would create 1,000 jobs at the company.

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new variants, the agency told Reuters.

Reliance Jio on Monday said that major parts of the city will be brought under the telecom major's 5G service by December of this year and the work will be completed by June 2023. The high speed data services will be launched in Siliguri soon and the north Bengal city will be second in the state after Kolkata where the company will offer its 5G ser...

Pushwoosh, a software firm based in Russia, presented itself as based in the US but is actually Russian, as per an investigation. The company's software was used by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US' main agency for fighting major health threats, and the US Army. Pushwoosh says the company stores data in the US and in ...

In a further sign that large companies may be girding against an imminent recession, US tech giants Amazon.com, Microsoft and Intel said this week that customers were taking an axe to cloud and data center spending.

The monkeypox vaccine is highly effective, protecting people as early as two weeks after the first dose, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

The Indian Navy on Friday inked a pact with ISRO's Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad on data sharing and cooperation on satellite-based naval applications.

Crypto mining firm Bitzero will purchase an old US anti-ballistic missile site abandoned in the 1970s and redevelop it into a data centre to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum. The firm intends to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota and is working on a joint venture for assembly a...

The most important concern for any individual or a huge datacentre holding thousands of gigabytes of data is security. But one security expert has found a unique "leak" in one of the datacentres, which allowed him to gain access to precious data.

Intel India has opened a new center in Bengaluru in an effort to expand its design and engineering footprint in India. The new 4.53 lakh square feet facility across two towers can accommodate 2,000 employees. It is claimed to help advance Intel India's "cutting-edge" design and engineering work in client, data centre, IoT, graphics, artificial inte...

The Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) signed the agreement with the Center for Developing Intelligent Systems (CDIS) of IIT Kanpur for advanced drone data analytics.

The Dutch Senate passed a motion calling on the government to "use its powers" to temporarily block the construction of Facebook-owner Meta's planned giant data centre in the Netherlands.

A wastewater network that monitors for Covid-19 trends is warning that cases are once again rising in many parts of the U.S., according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by Bloomberg.

Hackers have gained access to login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world’s biggest businesses, including Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Alibaba, Huawei, and BMW AG. A cybersecurity firm and executives at four major US-based companies that were affected said the stolen credentials represented an unusual and serious danger.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the government will bring a National Data Governance policy, which will simplify the KYC process while anonymising individual data. The finance minister also said to enhance ease of doing business, more than 39,000 compliances have been reduced and over 3,400 legal provisions decriminalise...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it plans to invest an additional $35 billion (roughly Rs. 2,83,400 crore) to expand data centres in Virginia. The firm said it had invested the same amount in data centres in the state from 2011 to 2020, adding that the new investment would create 1,000 jobs at the company.

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new variants, the agency told Reuters.

Reliance Jio on Monday said that major parts of the city will be brought under the telecom major's 5G service by December of this year and the work will be completed by June 2023. The high speed data services will be launched in Siliguri soon and the north Bengal city will be second in the state after Kolkata where the company will offer its 5G ser...

Pushwoosh, a software firm based in Russia, presented itself as based in the US but is actually Russian, as per an investigation. The company's software was used by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US' main agency for fighting major health threats, and the US Army. Pushwoosh says the company stores data in the US and in ...

In a further sign that large companies may be girding against an imminent recession, US tech giants Amazon.com, Microsoft and Intel said this week that customers were taking an axe to cloud and data center spending.

The monkeypox vaccine is highly effective, protecting people as early as two weeks after the first dose, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

The Indian Navy on Friday inked a pact with ISRO's Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad on data sharing and cooperation on satellite-based naval applications.

Crypto mining firm Bitzero will purchase an old US anti-ballistic missile site abandoned in the 1970s and redevelop it into a data centre to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum. The firm intends to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota and is working on a joint venture for assembly a...

The most important concern for any individual or a huge datacentre holding thousands of gigabytes of data is security. But one security expert has found a unique "leak" in one of the datacentres, which allowed him to gain access to precious data.

Intel India has opened a new center in Bengaluru in an effort to expand its design and engineering footprint in India. The new 4.53 lakh square feet facility across two towers can accommodate 2,000 employees. It is claimed to help advance Intel India's "cutting-edge" design and engineering work in client, data centre, IoT, graphics, artificial inte...

The Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) signed the agreement with the Center for Developing Intelligent Systems (CDIS) of IIT Kanpur for advanced drone data analytics.

The Dutch Senate passed a motion calling on the government to "use its powers" to temporarily block the construction of Facebook-owner Meta's planned giant data centre in the Netherlands.

A wastewater network that monitors for Covid-19 trends is warning that cases are once again rising in many parts of the U.S., according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by Bloomberg.