Equinix, a global interconnection and data centre company, has announced the signing of a greater than US$1 billion initial joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, to develop and operate xScale data centres in Japan. The three initial facilities in the joint venture – one in Osaka and two in Tokyo – will serve the unique core workload […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of AWS Outposts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). AWS Outposts delivers fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’s broad […]
The global data centre services market is expected to register a compound annual growth rate of 13.69% during the 2019 to 2024 period, reflecting their importance in a digitally-driven business environment. As part of this, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will provide further impetus as more companies shift towards a multi-cloud approach. The focus on HCI reflects […]
Microsoft has announced plans to establish its first data centre region in New Zealand, a major milestone toward delivering enterprise-grade cloud services in the country. The New Zealand data centre region will be the latest addition to Microsoft’s global data centre footprint, which totals more than any other cloud provider at 60 regions announced, with Microsoft Azure available in over 140 countries around the world. With the development of this new data centre region, Microsoft aims to fuel new […]
Research from F5 Networks revealed earlier this year that the EMEA region leads the way for multi-cloud adoption, although security and skill gap challenges remain. According to the sixth annual State of Application Services (SOAS) report, 88% of surveyed EMEA organisations were leveraging multi-cloud environments, compared to 87% in the Americas and 86% in the APCJ region. […]
Research from F5 Networks revealed earlier this year that the EMEA region leads the way for multi-cloud adoption, although security and skill gap challenges remain. According to the sixth annual State of Application Services (SOAS) report, 88% of surveyed EMEA organisations were leveraging multi-cloud environments, compared to 87% in the Americas and 86% in the APCJ region. […]
As Digital Transformation takes hold, Edge Computing is fast becoming one of the most popular IT services in the industry. Rolf Vanden Eynde, Manager, Network, Strategic Infrastructure Planning, and Innovation at Ahold Delhaize, tells us why the company required a hyperconverged solution for its current demands, and how this helped to pave the way for […]
Nokia has announced its collaboration with Microsoft as part of the SONiC initiative, an open source network operating system based on Linux that has been production-hardened in the data centres of some of the largest cloud service providers. Leveraging over 20 years of experience building some of the world’s largest IP networks, Nokia has developed a robust […]
Rackspace has been positioned by Gartner as a leader in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide. This is the fourth consecutive year that Rackspace has been named a leader in this report. Gartner’s assessment is performed by the firm’s IT industry analysts and evaluates service providers based on […]
Teraco has formally confirmed the construction of Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), a new 30MW data centre facility. This follows the company’s recent 60MW expansion announcement of its Johannesburg data centre campus in Isando and makes the Cape Town facility the second largest on the continent. Jan Hnizdo, CEO, Teraco, said that the company is […]
