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EUROPE
Microsoft has announced plans to establish the
company’s first cloud region in Israel to deliver its
intelligent, trusted cloud services through a local
data centre region.
This investment expands the Microsoft global cloud
infrastructure to 56 cloud regions in 21 countries, with
the new Israel region anticipated to be available starting
with Microsoft Azure in 2021, with Office 365 to
follow. The new region will become part of one of
the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.
EUROPE
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting,
an alliance of academia and industry representatives
announced the Swiss Data Center Efficiency Label with
the initial goal to decarbonise data centres in Switzerland
and significantly reduce their overall energy consumption.
Initiated by industry association, digitalswitzerland, and
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the alliance has
founded the Swiss Datacenter Efficiency Association
(SDEA), which will own the assessment and award
process for the label.
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