Orange Belgium has opened a new highly secure and eco-efficient data centre in Hoboken, Antwerp. The 1,000 m² data centre will help Orange to manage the growing demand for mobile usage of its customers by handling the billions of day-to-day connections Orange customers make to surf, call and SMS. Orange Belgium invested more than €14 […]
Ducab, one of the Middle East’s leading high quality cable manufacturers, will strengthen its global transportation and delivery network with Oracle Cloud Applications, accelerating Ducab’s expansion into new markets within and outside the UAE. The company will leverage Oracle Cloud Applications to bolster its customer deliveries, introduce innovative services and enhance collaboration with its suppliers. […]
Data centre spend in the Middle East and North Africa will reach a record-high of nearly US$5 billion in 2019, industry experts have announced. This comes as organisations drive data centre modernisation as the foundation of their Digital Transformation. In 2019, the Middle East and North Africa’s data centre systems spend will grow by 2% […]
Kingston Digital Europe Co LLP, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, has announced its new Data Center 500 Series Enterprise SSDs. DC500R is optimised for read-intensive applications while DC500M is optimised for mixed-use workloads. Both SSDs in the DC500 series implement Kingston’s strict […]
Timothy Arnold, Head of Colocation at Six Degrees, discusses the best practice approach data centre teams should take to managing outdated equipment. Running outdated equipment in your data centre is a drain on finances and resources and can introduce security risks to your organisation. I’ve personally seen 12-year-old equipment that’s never been patched and never […]
du, a telecom provider from the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), in collaboration with Cisco, has announced the launch of a Unified Cloud Fabric that combines du’s state of the art data centres across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into a single cohesive multi-site, multi-geographical cloud using Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco’s intent-based networking solution […]
Dr Jon Summers, Scientific Leader in Data Centres, Research Institutes of Sweden, SICS North, discusses why gains in reducing the end use energy demand of data centres are best addressed by analysing the full integrated system. Content supplied by the DCA. In the world of data centres, the term facility is commonly used to indicate the […]
Mark Rawlings, Commissioning Project Manager at AESG, discusses the benefits of a commissioning specialist and utilising Building Information Modelling (BIM) for data centres. In a world full of tech giants, Blockchain, cryptocurrencies and cloud computing we are living in the era of the data revolution, where data and information are coined as the new gold […]
R&M, a globally active developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures, based in Wetzikon, Switzerland, has announced the availability of the Data Center Handbook 2019. The handbook, aimed primarily at planners and operators of data centres, is a rich source of information on how to successfully design, build, manage and support a […]
Marvell has announced its LiquidSecurity Network Hardware Security Module (HSM) for the enterprise data centre and private cloud. This purpose-built solution leverages Marvell’s successful deployments of its scalable cloud-focused security offerings in public cloud and extends its technology leadership into enterprise environments. Marvell’s LiquidSecurity solution provides enterprise data centres and private cloud with a robust, […]
