First Brick Holdings, a Roha Group company, has announced plans for multiple investments to boost the digitalisation of East and Southern Africa with the funding and development of several data centres across the region. These data centres will open up new opportunities for financial services, governments and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) by addressing their […]
Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has announced that it will build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre at its London Slough campus. The data centre – called LD7 – will provide interconnection and colocation to businesses to support their IT transformation initiatives and adoption of the cloud while supporting the […]
Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, has announced it is expanding its delivery footprint for access management-as-a-service solutions across the European Union with additional data centres in the region. These newly added facilities will help the company respond to rising demand for its cloud-based authentication and access management solutions while also helping EU customers […]
Intelligent CIO finds out what makes Samer Saber, Regional Director, Kuwait, Dell EMC, tick inside and outside the office. What would you describe as your most memorable achievement? My most memorable achievement was in the first year post the historic merger of Dell and EMC, as we doubled the business and grew our market share significantly […]
Teraco, Africa’s largest vendor neutral colocation data centre provider, has said that clients currently making use of its data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg are set to benefit from the cross connection to the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) – Africa’s first transatlantic link connecting the continent to the Americas. Owned by Angola Cables, […]
Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, has announced the launch of its end-to-end TERA Category 8.2 copper cabling system, delivering transmission performance up to 2 GHz to support emerging high-speed 25 and 40 Gigabit (25/40GBASE-T) applications in data centre switch-to-server applications. Siemon’s TERA Category 8.2 system includes cable, patch cords, connectors and pre-terminated cable […]
DigiPlex, the Nordic region’s leading data centre specialist has recruited two experienced operations managers – Per Lähdet in Sweden and Mark Kjeldstrøm in Denmark – to be responsible for the operations of DigiPlex data centre in their respective markets. Continued high expectations from customers on security and innovative sustainability solutions demand a constant development and […]
Schneider Electric, a leader in Digital Transformation of energy management and automation, has announced the continued rollout of EcoStruxure IT Expert, its cloud-based data centre infrastructure management solution, with its release in Europe. With IT Expert, Schneider Electric brings secure, vendor-agnostic, wherever-you-go monitoring and visibility of all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets. As part of Schneider […]
With SAP investing heavily in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the country’s Digital Transformation is set on the road to success. Intelligent CIO talks to Khaled Alsaleh, Managing Director, SAP KSA, about the importance of cloud, SAP’s investment in a local data centre in KSA, and the futuristic Smart City of NEOM. Is cloud a […]
An IDG Connect survey of 300 senior decision makers across Sweden and Norway has revealed DigiPlex as the most recognised brand in one of the world’s most active and attractive markets for data centre investment and development. The survey, which gathered the opinions of a range of CEOs, CFOs and CIOs, revealed the company as […]
