Posts Tagged ‘TikTok’

TikTok building out more data centre locations in Europe

February 20, 2023
Philbert Shih

TikTok confirmed plans to open two additional data centres in Europe and shared data points about gr...

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Echelon challenges Dublin ban on new data centres

August 26, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Ireland’s Echelon Data Centres is challenging the recent decision by South Dublin County Council t...

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TikTok making changes to US end user data location and storage; going big on Oracle Cloud, global hyperscale impact

June 20, 2022
Philbert Shih

TikTok confirmed some changes as to how it stores data belonging to US-based end users. The move end...

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ByteDance’s Volcano Engine moves into public cloud infrastructure game

December 27, 2021
Philbert Shih

ByteDance launched a cloud infrastructure service under the new Volcano Engine brand. ...

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ByteDance reported to be re-financing debt in advance of expansion initiatives; infrastructure implications

September 9, 2021
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate ByteDance, parent of popular social media platform TikTok, is looking to re-f...

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Echelon to host TikTok at Dublin data centre campus

July 13, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports Echelon Data Centres signed up TikTok as a tenant for the DUB01 campus it is bui...

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ByteDance launches division to sell TikTok’s algorithm as platform service; infrastructure implications

July 12, 2021
Jabez Tan

ByteDance (TikTok) launched a new division called BytePlus to sell platform services based on TikTok...

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ByteDance said to have left Alibaba Cloud; implications across hyperscale ecosystem

May 25, 2021
Philbert Shih

Alibaba Cloud recently reported its 1Q21 results and growth rates were down given the departure of a...

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TikTok likely to remain owned by ByteDance

February 23, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

The Biden administration is postponing – potentially indefinitely – the forced sale of TikTok’...

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ByteDance leases 53MW in Northern Virginia in 1H20, media reports say

November 12, 2020
Jabez Tan

TikTok’s owner ByteDance leased 53MW of data centre capacity in Northern Virginia during 1H20,...

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Oracle, Walmart agree to take minority stake in TikTok Global; Oracle Cloud infrastructure win

September 28, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

The TikTok/ByteDance saga has taken some strange turns as the deadline for a sale given by President...

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TikTok selects Ireland for first European data centre; data protection angle

August 20, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

TikTok (currently owned by China’s ByteDance but in discussions to sell to Microsoft) will built i...

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