Digital Realty has announced the deployment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at the company’s Westin building exchange in Seattle and on its Interxion Dublin campus in Ireland, bringing one of the fastest AWS Direct Connect capabilities to PlatformDIGITAL. Digital Realty’s platform connects 290 centres of data exchange with over 4,000 participants around the world, […]

Proximity Data Centres has announced two new connectivity services to accelerate the choice of high speed, low latency connectivity solutions available to enterprise customers using its rapidly growing portfolio of UK-wide Edge colocation data centres. These initiatives will be delivered in tandem with Next Connex, a specialist provider of integrated data networking infrastructure, hosting and […]

Kalaam Telecom, Bahrain’s technology solutions provider, has announced the acquisition of Zajil International Telecom Co. (KSCC), one of Kuwait’s longest-established ISP and ICT services companies, with the aim of creating a regional powerhouse which will drive Digital Transformation in the GCC region and beyond. The acquisition will create a combined entity with revenue of US$100 […]

With more and more people working from home as a result of the pandemic, business leaders have been faced with Edge complexities as the scale of Edge Computing use has increased. Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam, and Rick Vanover, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam, discuss how Edge Computing will […]

Schneider Electric, a Digital Transformation of energy management and automation solutions provider, has announced the launch of its Easy Rack Series available exclusively in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Available in a variety of sizes, the Easy Rack series is designed to be quick and easy to install, while simple to scale, […]

Netskope, the SASE leader, announced expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network across Europe and the Middle East, with new data centres brought online in Manchester, UK, Marseilles, France, Zurich, Switzerland and Fujairah, UAE. All of the additional presence and capacity has been activated in direct response to customer demand, as enterprises worldwide embrace a SASE […]

Africa’s technology capabilities are rapidly progressing and it is largely down to the efforts of companies such as Teraco and Africa Data Centres. We hear how both data centre companies are working to ensure Africa can keep up with Digital Transformation demands in the data centre space and how they are enhancing connectivity across the […]

The warehouse of the future must have a fast, efficient communications network connecting everything and everyone. This is the view of George Verdes, Head of Sales for Transportation and Logistics in MEA at Nokia, who tells us here how Nokia’s Optical LAN is enabling this vision.  Global lockdown in 2020 and beyond has resulted in […]

Proximity Data Centres, one of the UK’s fastest growing regional Edge colocation data centre providers, has announced a strategic marketing partnership with ITS, a leading UK wholesale provider of full fibre infrastructure.   The partnership follows the announcement of a joint venture between ITS, the Liverpool City Region (LCRCA) and construction partner, NGE, in February. […]

Nokia has announced that its Nokia AirFrame data centre solutions will be upgraded with the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to increase their compute capacity, faster data lanes and higher memory capacity. As a result of Nokia and Intel’s close working partnership, the AirFrame products will be upgraded immediately following the availability of the […]