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 […]
Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers Khazna Data Centers has broken ground on two data center facilities in Dubai, providing existing businesses with increased opportunities for innovation and improved connectivity. Adding to its existing presence in the United Arab Emirates, the two facilities currently in development – to be known as DXB2 and DXB3, […]
ABB has provided electrical switchgear and control equipment to China Mobile International (CMI), an international telecommunications company located in 36 countries and regions, for its new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The solution was delivered via electrical power distribution supplier E+I Engineering, with the package including four medium-voltage (MV) switchgear panels equipped with ABB’s Relion […]
