Vertiv announced the Clean Hydrogen Partnership will provide EUR 2.5 million to help fund a project to develop low-carbon fuel cells to power data centres. It is hoped this could reduce carbon emissions from operations by up to 100%.
The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable is now live and available for interconnection at all three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa, expanding access to broadband connectivity and digital services in Africa.
Thomas Leys, Investment Manager, Fixed Income at Aberdeen Standard Investments, explains how today’s energy-hungry data centers are proving to be a challenge in the fight against climate change.
Etisalat today announced the expansion of its SmartHub in UAE with a state-of-the-art Tier 3 data centre facility at two new locations growing its presence in the region. The opening of the new facilities in Fujairah and Dubai is in line with UAE’s vision to become an ICT and data hub for the region.
Equinix announced one of its largest expansions of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric) in seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses simplify hybrid and multicloud infrastructures.
As, we keep on generating more and even more data every passing moment and may and reach the limit of our current storage technologies the Senior Global Technologist at Veeam Michael Cade gives a sneak-peek into the future of data backup.
Asia’s leading communications group, Singtel has announced a new solar energy installation at Bedok Data Centre, will generate some 2,059 MWh of clean energy per year and account for 10% of the data centre’s energy needs, the equivalent of powering 462 four-room flats per month.
Digitization can be part of the solution to climate change but storing digital data that is never used can also consume an enormous amount of energy and, as a result, produce CO2 that need never have been wasted.
Vertiv announced the launch of prefabricated modular (PFM) data centres which have been awarded Uptime Institute’s TIER-Ready designation of performance resiliency.
Infoblox announced an 21-city tour across EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions with the Middle East and Africa leg of the kicked off on February 11, 2019 in Cairo, Egypt and it will conclude in Muscat, Oman on February 27. The tour with the theme ‘Take Network Security to the Next Level’ focuses on security and next generation data centres.
