Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced the delivery of the first facility on its Johannesburg campus. Positioned within the continent’s largest data centre market, Vantage has opened its first data centre (JNB11) in Africa after breaking ground in 2021. The two-storey facility offers 16MW of critical IT […]

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 traffic in South Africa. The new Cape Town deployment complements the existing Johannesburg infrastructure to address growing customer demand and provide more in-region capacity […]

Vantage Data Centers – a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses – has announced it has entered into a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, a pioneer in South Africa’s solar energy financing. This agreement will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid that powers the company’s Johannesburg (JNB1) data centre campus […]

Rack Centre, an Actis majority-owned data centre and a leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in West Africa, has become one of the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE certified data centres in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  This prestigious green building certification recognises the significant savings the centre will achieve in energy and […]

In line with Egypt’s Vision 2030 and Egypt’s digital transformation strategy, both private and public sectors come together with a vision and plan to establish the foundations for the transformation of Egypt into a digital society. Hence, the Digital Transformation Summit is coming to Egypt to tackle a wide range of topics that are fundamental […]

Building on its strengths in construction, MEP, logistics, fitout and technology integration and looking to cater to growing demand for regional data centres, ALEC has announced the establishment of its newest subsidiary, ALEC Data Centre Solutions. In addition to designing, implementing and commissioning turn-key data centres that conform to the highest international standards, the company […]

Khazna Data Centers, one of the largest wholesale data centre providers in the Middle East and North Africa, has kicked off construction of its second data centre in Masdar, Abu Dhabi and is set to be completed by Q3 2023. To be named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), the new 31.8 megawatts (MW) of […]

The Raxio Group, a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, has announced it is investing and establishing ‘Raxio Tanzania’, one of the first state-of-the-art, carrier-neutral, Tier III data centres in the country. Raxio Tanzania is the latest facility to be part of Raxio’s fast-expanding network of interconnected carrier-neutral, Tier III data centres across the African continent. As the […]

The Huawei Middle East IT Day 2022, held under the theme of ‘Green Data, Super Power’, recently brought together Huawei experts, independent analysts and customers to discuss the role of modern data centre and storage technology in helping businesses innovate faster. Digitalisation is accelerating in the region, putting pressure on existing IT systems. This has […]

Acronis, a global leader in cyberprotection, has announced the availability of a new Acronis Cyber Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The new data centre, one of the 111 new data centres being deployed by the company, gives service provider partners access to a full range of cyberprotection solutions upon which they can build new […]