Frost & Sullivan has recognized Siemens with the 2022 Company of the Year Award for its innovative and leading approach in the data center industry. By tracking, analyzing, and understanding market mega trends, Siemens capitalizes on market opportunities and keeps innovating to influence future developments in the data center industry. This forward-thinking spirit has led […]
Managing consumption and carbon footprint driving trends toward regulation, standardization, and the search for generator alternatives, according to Vertiv Data centers will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world continues to grapple with the industry’s rising energy and water consumption against the backdrop of ongoing climate change. The intensified focus on […]
Equinix has announced plans to enter the South African market with a US$160 million data center investment in Johannesburg that augments its current footprint on the African continent in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The new data center is expected to open mid-2024. With its South Africa expansion, Equinix is entering one of the largest […]
Cloud4C has unveiled a new in-country cloud data center in the Arab Republic of Egypt in collaboration with Telecom Egypt, the country’s primary telecom provider.
DigitalOcean has announced it is expanding its global presence with a new data center in Sydney, Australia (SYD1). This new facility will better support DigitalOcean’s current and prospective customers who are based in or have end-users in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney is the ninth global region to house a DigitalOcean data center and the […]
In 2021, the unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform for modern enterprises roughly doubled its presence in the MEA region, with the UAE at the forefront of the company’s growth Sprinklr has announced its expanded presence in the Middle East with a data hosting solution in the UAE, giving customers the option to host their […]
Volkswagen AG has announced its goal of making its data center operations net carbon-neutral by 2027. To achieve this goal, the Group has expanded its computing capacities at Green Mountain, a Norwegian operator of CO₂-neutral data centers. With this expansion, one quarter of Volkswagen’s global data center operations will run carbon-neutrally. This corresponds to annual […]
neutrality.one, a cloud networking company, delivering software-defined infrastructure, has expanded its global network to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia with the launch of a Point of Presence (PoP) in stc’s Jeddah Center3 data center. The PoP will provide direct low-latency connectivity between Jeddah and Marseille, France.
Vertiv has released its Guide to Data Center Sustainability, an online resource for data center owners and operators seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their facilities. According to a report by the International Energy Agency, data centers account for about 1% of global electricity demand. The report notes that the industry was able to […]
Schneider Electric commissioned reports by three independent research firms which focused on sustainability in IT and data center operations and the results reveal a disconnect between intent and action, indicating most of the industry is still at the beginning stage of its sustainability journey. The three commissioned studies were conducted, separately, by industry-leading analysts at […]
