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Namibian financial holdings company improves infrastructure thanks to Nutanix

A Namibian financial holdings company that has seen its number of employees rise from 50 to 900 in a decade turned to Nutanix to improve its infrastructure model. Trustco Holdings is a dual listed diversified Namibian financial services group that invests and operates in sustainable high growth assets in emerging markets. Employing 900 people, the company […]


ICT infrastructure a barrier to data centre adoption in Africa

To help Africa realise the benefits of the data economy, more data centres in the region are urgently needed. However, building data centres starts with enabling access to the ICT infrastructure and ecosystems, and there are several barriers Africa faces.  “All of the big trends that are shaping economies today, from cloud data centres,  smart […]


A new South African cloud market emerging

Thanks to the arrival of Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa, it is expected that more born-in-the-cloud organisations will start taking root here. And with smaller companies now finding it easier to migrate to an online environment, Dana Cinman, Product Specialist at Obsidian Systems, says these are exciting times for solution providers. Previously, businesses […]


South Africa ‘is well on its way to becoming a cloud-first market’

Globally, 85% of enterprises are operating in a multi-cloud environment with most of the balance planning on embracing this methodology by 2021. Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager, Africa, at Veeam, says that, in South Africa, the recent arrival of multinational data centres, as well as carrier and cloud neutral data centres, means that expectations […]


Netshield adds intelligence directly into data centre cabinets

Netshield SA has announced that it has integrated its range of intelligent handles into its Smart Zero U Power Distribution Units (PDUs) as well as added additional IoT features to its PDU units. This integration enables a customer to better track and monitor activity in a data centre, while at the same time providing a […]


First Brick Holdings announces plans to build Ethiopia’s first privately owned data centre

First Brick Holdings has announced that it is establishing and investing in ‘Raxio Ethiopia’, which will build and operate the first state-of-the-art, privately owned data centre in the east African country. In line with First Brick’s first data centre facility in Uganda, Raxio Uganda, the new data centre will be constructed and operated as a […]


Corent Technology and eHosting DataFort announce partnership on cloud services

Migration-as-a-Service platform, enables rapid data centre and software application migration and optimisation to the target cloud. Corent Technology, a leader in cloud migration and modernisation technologies, and eHosting Datafort (eHDF),  one of the leading hosting providers of cloud infrastructure, managed hosting and security services in the Gulf region, have announced the signing of a co-operation […]


Africa Data Centres becomes first neutral data centre in Nairobi to be PCI DSS compliant

Africa Data Centres Nairobi (formally known as East Africa Data Centre) has announced that it is officially Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. The company is now the first neutral data centre to be certified PCI DSS in Nairobi, and this, together with Uptime Institute Tier III and ISO 27001 certification, is […]


Lenovo partners with Jangala to connect education centres for refugees

Lenovo Foundation is partnering with Jangala to provide Wi-Fi access and hardware donations in education centres for refugees across Africa. Jangala, a charitable non-government organisation (NGO) is working to meet refugees’ needs with its ‘Big Box’ connectivity solution. It creates Wi-Fi that is ‘easy to manage and scale’, to support thousands of users in a […]


Teraco achieves global top three data centre ranking

In Cloudscene’s seventh publication of the Data Centre Ecosystem Leaderboard, Teraco’s JB1 East and West data centre has been ranked third globally in terms of service providers available at the facility. Cloudscene’s rankings are derived from the data published in the directory, which is sourced from the service providers and data centre operators and verified […]


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