Uptime Institute has announced the release of its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey. The findings show an industry that is growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient, but still working to address increasing pressure for sustainability progress and reporting, continuing staffing shortages, supply chain delays, costly outages and other complex challenges. “The global digital infrastructure sector […]
The Raxio Group has broken ground for the construction of Raxio Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Raxio Group held a ground-breaking ceremony that formally kicks off the construction of the first Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre in the DRC, located at 12eme, Limete, Kinshasa. During the event, Raxio presented its […]
As the number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to over 800 at the end of the second quarter, new data from Synergy Research Group shows that the United States accounts for 53% of the capacity of those data centers, measured by critical IT load. While the US accounts for over half […]
Google has announced intentions to build a data center in South Africa that will host data from all around the continent and assist Google Cloud users. According to the research by the law firm DLA Piper in South Africa, the number of data centers in Africa has grown rapidly in recent years, with SA having […]
Subsea Cloud, the company proposing to put commercial data centers in deep ocean waters, has moved closer to a physical launch. The company plans to install a pod near Port Angeles, Washington State. The “Jules Verne” pod will start with of a 6m (20ft) shipping container around nine meters underwater, holding 800 servers, eventually scaling […]
Vertiv has been recognized as a sample vendor for micro data center solutions in Gartner Hype Cycle reports for both Edge Computing and Midsize Enterprises. Each year, Gartner creates more than 90 Hype Cycles in various domains as a way for clients to track technology maturity and future potential. On the topic of micro data […]
Arab Financial Services (AFS), a digital payment solutions provider and fintech enabler in the Middle East and Africa, has relocated its UAE data center operations to Equinix Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX) facilities in Dubai, known as DX1. AFS currently has data centers in Bahrain and UAE. Through connecting to one of the prime commercial […]
Infinidat, a provider of enterprise storage solutions, has announced an expansion of its guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA) program. Infinidat is making available the industry’s first cyber storage guarantee for recovery on primary storage – the InfiniSafe Cyber Storage guarantee. This ensures that enterprises and service providers recover and restore their data at near-instantaneous speed […]
Newest NewEdge data centre in South Africa delivers fast, single-digit millisecond latency for on-ramping traffic, combined with extensive peering for a superior user experience Netskope, a leader in Security Service Edge (SSE) and Zero Trust, has announced its continued global expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network with an additional data centre now launched and taking […]
Western Digital announced the shipping of its new 22TB WD Gold Enterprise-Class HDDs for Data Center Storage Systems. These new drives are loaded with industry-firsts, including OptiNAND technology, energy-assisted PMR (ePMR), triple-stage actuator (TSA)
