Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its first cloud data centres in Africa – one in Cape Town, another in Johannesburg – has been a cause for celebration among South Africa’s business sector. And as Mikey Molfessis, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast South Africa explains, as we hurtle into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, access to cloud […]

Ian Jansen van Rensburg, VMware EMEA Senior Systems Engineer, looks at the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the birth of the next generation data centre. Artificial Intelligence has rapidly become a leading driver of innovation, creating competitive advantages and new business opportunities. The proliferation of data is enabling breakthroughs across disparate industries, from transportation and […]

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 […]

Justin Jenkins was appointed CEO of UK data centre operator NGD in 2018. He brings a wealth of IT and data centre industry experience including the past ten years at NGD where as part of the senior management team he previously served as Data Centre Director, CTO and latterly COO. Prior to joining NGD, Justin […]

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 […]

Ian Jansen van Rensburg, VMware EMEA Senior Systems Engineer, says you need to avoid four common problems in order to have a successful AIOps integration. The explosion in operational data and Machine Learning compute capacity is finally enabling AIOps – Artificial Intelligence for Operations. But like many other technologies, AIOps fits within a larger organisational […]

Schneider Electric, a leader in Digital Transformation of energy management and automation, has announced the new APC NetBotz Monitoring and Management System to bring enhanced monitoring, management and control to IT environments. The new NetBotz appliance lineup features NetBotz Rack Monitor 750 and the NetBotz Camera Pod 165. Continuing 20 years of innovation in data […]

Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting more than 500 million systems worldwide, has announced interoperability between Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) and VMware NSX-T Data Center. With this support, Bitdefender delivers an agentless security solution for customers that works with VMware NSX-T Data Center. As organisations embrace new technologies, data centre environments […]

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, […]

NetNordic, a fast-growing Nordic system integrator with a broad customer portfolio and nearly 300 employees in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, has selected DigiPlex to cater for all of the company’s data centre needs. The company currently uses five different data centres in Norway and DigiPlex will deliver a dual-site solution using the data centres at Ulven and Rosenholm in […]