Teraco Data Environments, one of Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre providers, has announced that construction has commenced on a new hyperscale data centre with 38 megawatts (MW) of critical power load in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The facility, known as JB4, is scheduled for completion in Q1 2022 and as a […]
RETN, an international network service provider, recently deployed Ciena’s solutions to accommodate recent rapid increases in network traffic. Ciena’s 800G technology supports important paths in the RETN Eurasian network, connecting key points in Central Europe between Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Hamburg, where high availability of services and low latency are essential for applications such as content […]
Jackson Lee, VP of Corporate Development, Colt DCS, says hyperscale offers businesses the flexibility and scalability to deal with any situation that comes their way and investment in this area enables the running of efficient operations in the face of uncertainty. 2020 has changed everything we once knew about business, including where best to run […]
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has announced the launch of its Inzai 3 hyperscale data centre – its largest facility in Japan. The 27MW facility has already achieved over 90% pre-letting and comes at a time of increased demand in the Japanese market. The launch of Inzai 3 represents an expansion of Colt DCS’ Inzai campus, […]
Secure I.T. Environments, one of the UK’s leading design and build companies for modular, containerised and micro data centres, has announced that it has completed a data centre migration project for the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), moving equipment and assets across a carefully choreographed weekend between sites 80 miles apart in Bedford and […]
Proximity Data Centres, a regional Edge colocation data centre provider, announced the immediate availability of three more high quality facilities. The new sites in Liverpool, Chester and Coventry add a further 8 megawatts (MW) of IT load capacity and more than 80,000 square feet of net technical space to the company’s growing UK network of […]
Alkira, a network cloud pioneer, has announced the expansion of its on-demand Cloud Network-as-a-Service (CNaaS) to extend cloud connectivity to any network. The industry’s first Cloud Backbone-as-a-Service (CBaaS) connects core data centres to edge or remote sites worldwide and to any multi-cloud, in minutes and hours compared to six to 18 months. The Alkira Cloud […]
Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced that it has raised US$1.25 billion in incremental equity capital from its existing investors, led by Digital Colony. This funding will be used to fuel ongoing expansion and development across North America and Europe. “Hyperscale data centre market demand remains strong, […]
As an increase in data volume and new services dominates data centre growth and development, Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) needed to update its data centre setup in order to meet future requirements. It therefore embarked on a digitalisation journey with Huawei. The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) chose to partner with Huawei, a company […]
IT solutions specialist, TechBuyer, prides itself on raising awareness on the importance of reusing technology to make for a more sustainable world. Charlie Collett, Sustainable IT Communications / Marketing – TechBuyer, explores some of the benefits of using remanufactured equipment and discusses why it is the way forward. With long manufacturing delays on supplies of […]
