Africa Data Centres is building its first data centre in Kigali, Rwanda; The facility will have 2MW of IT load and will break ground in the first quarter of 2023. Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced that it is building its firstRead More…
Nutanix has announced that, in response to the global climate crisis and the recent energy crisis, it has sponsored an in-depth report to help business decision makers not only minimise energy costs but radically cut the carbon footprint of their datacentre assets. “Datacentres and digital infrastructures as a whole accountRead More…
Economic benefits of cloud computing to UAE’s startups and SMEs equivalent to 4% of country’s 2021 GDP, says new report commissioned by AWS in partnership with Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. Hyperscale cloud computing is expected to provide SMEs and start-ups in the UAE with $17.1 billion (AED 62.6 billion)Read More…
Vertiv has announced that it has supported MEEZA to design, build and install its new data centres in Qatar. Vertiv was selected as MEEZA’s vendor of choice due to the company’s expertise in providing end-to-end data centre solutions that adhere to the highest industry guidelines.Read More…
The event also hosted the 2nd edition of the SDS+ Data Awards The Smart Data Summit Plus & the Future Datacentres and Cloud Infrastructure Summit 2022 took place on the 16th & 17th November 2022 at the Mövenpick Grand Al Bustan in Dubai, UAE. The summit brought together senior ITRead More…
In the last year, 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,Read More…
ZainTech has selected Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer to introduce new technology services to create business advantages for its customers across the Middle East. With Exadata Cloud@Customer, ZainTech will now provide in-country cloud hosting services for an organisation’s Oracle Database across its operating countries, starting with Jordan. This will be a firstRead More…
Data centres 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 the overall environmental and community impact of the data centre is one of fiveRead More…
E-finance has partnered with IBM to expand its digital payment services and give clients access to hybrid cloud environments to make secure payments. Under this partnership, e-finance is leveraging the latest IBM Power servers to upgrade its current infrastructure as a service (IaaS). E-finance has partnered with IBM to expandRead More…
At the “together we advance_data centers” event, AMD announced the general availability of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with unmatched performance for critical workloads across cloud, enterprise and high performance computing. The 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors bring next-generation architecture, technology, and features to the modern data center. BuiltRead More…
Teraco, Africa’s largest provider of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable. Equiano starts in Europe and runs along the West Coast of Africa, between Lisbon in Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa, with branching units along the wayRead More…
Confluent has announced that Confluent Cloud is now available to customers in the United Arab Emirates through Microsoft’s local Azure data centres in the country. “Data sovereignty and residency is increasingly important to modern digital projects in the region, forcing enterprises to look to their cloud providers to support theirRead More…
