Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a pan-African technology group, and Angola Telecom, a leading fixed network operator in Angola, have announced a new terrestrial fibre route between Luanda, Angola to Johannesburg, South Africa, via DRC, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The addition of this route to Liquid’s regional fibre backbone is a significant addition […]

A 5MW, state-of-the-art testing laboratory was recently commissioned at the Modine Rockbridge facility in Virginia, further expanding the services that Airedale by Modine can offer data centre customers and meet increasing demand from the data centre industry for validated, sustainable cooling solutions. Airedale, the critical cooling specialists, is a trusted brand of Modine, a diversified […]

BNP Paribas, atNorth and Dell Technologies have collaborated in order to deploy HPC with 50% less energy usage, 85% less CO2 output and lower TCO. To deliver more value to its customers and fuel emerging HPC needs, BNP Paribas CIB required exponential infrastructure growth. Ricardo Jantarada, Global Head of Telecom & Datacenter at BNP Paribas […]

According to Gartner, 75% of organisations will have implemented a data centre infrastructure sustainability programme driven by cost optimisation and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5% in 2022.   “Responsibilities for sustainability are increasingly being passed down from CIOs to infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to improve IT’s environmental performance, particularly around data […]

DE-CIX, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operators and home to the largest carrier- and data centre-neutral interconnection ecosystem globally has announced its newest Internet Exchange in Helsinki, Finland, is ready for service.  The new DE-CIX IX is available in Equinix’s data centres in Helsinki (HE-CIX) with more enabled sites to be announced. In […]

Telehouse, a leading data centre service provider, has officially opened its first Thai data centre at the prime location of Rama 9 in Bangkok – with an investment of US$74 million (THB2.5 billion) – aiming to create a connectivity ecosystem and becoming the first purpose-built data centre to achieve 100% power supply by renewable energy […]

In order to prevent data loss as much as possible, it is crucial for the premises of a data centre to be secure. Sienna Dzanic, Global Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager at Axis Communications, discusses the use of smart technology to physically secure server rooms, buildings, or data centres and ultimately, protect data assets. In today’s digital information era, protecting […]

Major data centre players are investing in the Digital Transformation of Africa. Khazna Data Centers is enhancing Egypt’s digital infrastructure by building the country’s first hyperscale data centre, while elsewhere on the continent, Africa Data Centres has formed a strategic partnership with LINX to explore digital growth opportunities. Khazna Data Centers plans to set up […]

A Stonepeak-owned company has announced its plans to expand its data center capacity by 6MW across Chile, Brazil and Peru. Cirion, a Latin American digital infrastructure firm, intends to establish three new data centers in the region. The company unveiled its intentions to construct a data center in the Quilicura region of Santiago, Chile, another […]

DDN, a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, has announced a major breakthrough for its all-flash and hybrid storage solutions. DDN’s parallel file system technology, combined with AI and data centre specific data compression, delivers the highest performance efficiency straight into generative AI, Machine Learning and other enterprise high-performance applications. […]