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Data Centre News
Partnerships & Alliances
BT opens up about Alibaba Cloud ties
Two providers cooperating on international network/cloud services. Alibaba Cloud’s UK cloud service is hosted in a BT data centre.
Partnerships & AlliancesT-Systems puts GAIA-X to work
Planned Franco‑German public cloud offering tagged as ‘Cloud Act‑free’. T‑Sys says US hyperscalers are welcome to join.
- Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica adds data centre capacity for edge services
Ten sites are to be opened in the next two years, focused on enabling edge services across Spain. Telefonica’s data centre partners may be waiting in wings to fuel further investment.
- Network & Infrastructure
Safaricom to put network disaggregation into the wild
Kenyan operator to expand Vodafone’s Africa test-ground for open solutions. Project gearing is more towards core and backhaul than RAN. Scale and efficiency gains highlighted.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica Empresas adds SAP to cloud “dream team”
Madrid data centre is data sovereignty key to partnership with SAP Spain. Agreement bolsters Telefónica Empresas multicloud strategy.
- Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica looks to cash in a dozen more data centres
Telefónica reportedly eyeing up €150m sale of twelve more DCs to Asterion. Also said to be angling for a stake in interrelated DC manager Nabiax. Same VC fund bought eleven Telefónica DCs in 2019, aiding Group efforts to alleviate debt and monetise assets.
- Analysis
Elsewhere in BT Tech: BT puts willingness to tackle legacy in writing
BT signs TM Forum’s Open API and Open Digital Architecture Manifesto.
- Operations
BT Ireland fencing bid denied
BT Ireland was denied permission to construct secure perimeter fencing around its Dublin data centre.
- Enterprise (B2B)
Telefónica Empresas adds BMC Helix to cloud offer
Partnership with IT support management specialist expected to bolster Telefónica’s portfolio of cloud‑based scalable solutions for the enterprise market.
- Enterprise (B2B)
T-Systems will open second Open Telekom Cloud HQ in Amsterdam
T‑Systems intends to open a second European Open Telekom Cloud location in Amsterdam, extending beyond its original regional hub in Biere, Germany.
- Strategy & Change
BT completes Spanish retreat
BT Group exits Spain after selling its ICT services business to Portobello Capital.
- Operations
T-Mobile Poland opens Warsaw data centre
TMPL is to build a new data centre in Warsaw. Permission to construct the new 4,400 square metre facility on the outskirts of the capital has been granted.
- Operations
Telefónica’s Telxius furthers US reach with new Virginia facility
Telxius opens new facility in Virginia to boost commercial presence in the US.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone gives Hadoop the heave-ho, turns to Google
Vodafone nearly half-way through migrating its Hadoop‑based big data analytics platform, serving eleven countries, onto Google Cloud Platform. “Cloud-native” Neuron systems leans on Google’s expertise in AI and ML. Full migration from Hadoop to Neuron slated before 31 March 2020.
- Partnerships & Alliances
McRae talks-up cloud partner capabilities
BT Chief Architect keen on collaboration over competition with more established cloud services giants. CTIO Watson, meanwhile, appears to be weighing value of BT’s exchange estate as a bargaining chip in evolving relationships.
- Venturing & Investments
DTCP joins Guardicore’s latest investment round
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), the Group’s investment management arm, participated in a $60m (€54m) Series C funding round in data centre and cloud security specialist Guardicore.
- Venturing & Investments
Telefónica acquisitions and disposals: May 2019
Telefónica continues trimming its asset base to bolster efficiency and return-on-capital through the sale of physical data sites. Long-term tenancy agreements in place, and Telefónica promises business-as-usual for its cloud services.
