The cross-continent support of the global tech community has culminated in a sold-out GITEX Africa 2023, with an expansion phase now underway as construction ramps up of a purpose-built venue in Marrakech, Morocco, for Africa’s largest tech and start-up event. The inaugural GITEX Africa will make its debut from 31 May-2 June 2023, welcoming more […]

Digital Edge (Singapore) has announced it has entered into a partnership with Hulic, a leading Japanese real estate developer, to develop a carrier-neutral data centre facility in downtown Tokyo, Japan. The project, known as TYO7, is designed to provide much-needed interconnect focused colocation capacity to one of the world’s largest data centre markets as Digital […]

What would you describe as your most memorable achievement in the data centre industry? Clinching the contract for an entire and sizeable data centre with a single customer for the first time, when all we had was a chunk of land and a promise of power and then to see it come up out of […]

Describe your current job role and a summary of the business model of your organisation? Prem Rodrigues is the Director for the India, SAARC, Middle East, Africa region at Siemon, which is a global network infrastructure specialist. Prem’s role involves a close focus on profitability across the region and he is instrumental in spawning new […]

Vodafone Qatar has announced that, in collaboration with Nokia, it has powered Msheireb Smart City with cutting-edge fibre technology that delivers hyper speeds of up to 25 Gbps and will extend the collaboration to demonstrate speeds of up to 100 Gbps, using a Nokia Bell Labs prototype in the near future. With the roll-out of […]

Regional design-build contractor AMANA is consolidating its leadership in modular construction with a new factory in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The factory is a response to the surging demand in the Saudi Arabia for offsite manufacturing technologies enabled by DuBox and is vital to successful project delivery for the Saudi Arabia’s raft of ambitious hospitality and […]

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure, a wholesale data centre developer, owner and operator, has announced the expansion of its presence in Northern Virginia through the establishment of a partnership with Penzance, a Washington, DC-based real estate developer, to co-develop 7.6 acres centrally located in the heart of the largest data centre market in the world. The site […]

InMotion Hosting, an industry leader in premium web hosting, has announced the opening of its first international data centre in Europe. This significant milestone marks the company’s expansion of its Shared Hosting plans to new European customers and those looking for a European presence. All of InMotion Hosting’s product lines will be available in the […]

KIO, I Squared Capital’s data centre and digital infrastructure platform for Latin America, has announced the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of a new data centre Campus in Colombia. With the new KIO BOG1, located in Bogota, Colombia becomes KIO’s sixth country of operations, fifth in the Americas and first in South America. […]

Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is increasing connectivity capabilities for the data centre-rich San Francisco Bay Area with the expansion of its dark fibre network. The addition of a third fully diverse route provides critical fibre infrastructure from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Great Oaks area of San Jose. The […]