Bryan Hill, Director, Platforms at Interxion: A Digital Realty Company, discusses the steps to building a strong IT infrastructure in order to generate user interest and long-term subscribers in the OTT media services market, and why colocating IT in a dense connectivity hub is beneficial. In response to COVID-19 related quarantining and lockdowns, the hunger […]

Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has announced it will join European cloud infrastructure and data centre providers and European trade associations to form the Climate Neutral Data Centre Operator Pact and Self-Regulatory Initiative. The pact marks the first time the industry has come together to solidify its commitment to ensure that European data centres are […]

DigiPlex, a Nordic leader for sustainable, innovative and secure data centres, has acquired a plot of 60,000 m2, with an option to purchase an additional 100,000 m2 in Treklyngen industrial park in Ringerike municipality outside of Oslo. The seller is Follum Eiendom AS. The site has been prepared for the establishment of a data centre […]

Third annual Nutanix survey finds UAE companies ahead of the global curve on private cloud adoption which is a key component of the emerging, highly flexible hybrid cloud model. Nutanix, a leader in private cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud computing has released an analysis of its third global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, showing […]

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. As we witness a rise in the number of data centre facilities globally, how […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced it will open an infrastructure region in Switzerland in the second half of 2022. The AWS Europe (Zurich) Region will comprise three Availability Zones and join existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the UK. Currently, AWS provides 77 Availability Zones across 24 geographic regions globally, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more […]

The pandemic has highlighted the fact that business leaders should take the current situation as an opportunity to improve and invest in their business models. Jackson Lee, VP Corporate Development from Colt Data Centre Services, says FinTech companies must be proactive when investing in their IT infrastructure and particularly in their data storage and connectivity, […]

As remote work becomes the new, smarter normal, businessesneed to adapt their hybrid cloud strategy and modernise theirdata centre infrastructure. Dr Christopher Cooper – DCG Director,Lenovo MEA, tells Intelligent CIO Middle East, how Lenovo isdelivering supreme hyperconverged infrastructure solutions thatbest fit an organisation’s IT strategy. Lenovo is addressing the hybrid cloud strategy and modernisation of […]

As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centres and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis. This reality will manifest in new ways in 2021 as the data centre and the information ecosystem orbiting […]

Infinera has announced that BroadBand Tower, a Tokyo-based data centre and cloud services provider, deployed Infinera’s GX Series Compact Modular Platform to expand high-capacity, ultra-low-latency connectivity between its data centres across the Tokyo metropolitan area. The Infinera GX solution enables BroadBand Tower to meet increasing customer demand for cloud-based services connectivity in Japan and enhance […]