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Vantage Data Centers opens Hong Kong office

New location supports investment and expansion across Asia Pacific.

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South Lanarkshire Council slashes carbon emissions with IT upgrades

Move to DataVita data centre helps cut energy use by 94%.

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MainOne, an Equinix Company’s MDXi Appolonia achieves Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF)

With this new milestone, MDXi Appolonia becomes the leading data center provider in Ghana with the top 4 certifications in the industry.

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Africa Data Centres to build its first data centre in Kigali, Rwanda

The data centre will have 2MW of IT load and will be purpose-built to meet growing demand in the region.

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Africa Data Centres provides colocation for the first ICANN Managed Root Server in Africa

IMRS cluster deployment is intended by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to assist Internet users in Africa to have faster access to services on the Internet; Africa Data Centres (https://www.AfricaDataCentres.com/) has been selected as the host of the IMRS cluster at their class-leading Kenya data centre facility.

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Data centre investment and Covid-19 - catalysts for accelerated cloud adoption in Africa

Console Connect has launched the second edition of its Africa Interconnection Report, researched by analyst firm Balancing Act, to understand the drivers and barriers to cloud adoption in the region.

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Improving sustainability in data centres

Nutanix sponsored report examines potential impact of datacentre models on energy efficiency and carbon footprint.

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MEEZA deploys 4.9 MW data centre capacity in Qatar

Vertiv helped MEEZA add 4.9 MW of data centre capacity in just 14 months from design to installation.

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Node4 upgrades second data centre

Node4 has expanded its country-wide Managed Azure Hybrid Cloud solution.

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atNorth and Parallel Works partner

atNorth HPCaaS computing resources are now available through Parallel Works as a single pane of glass solution, democratizing HPC and enabling hybrid workflows with cloud resources.

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Huawei Data Center Facility unveils Global Ecosystem Policy and Product Innovations

Under the theme "Fairness, Trust, Growth, and Win-Win", Huawei Data Center Facility Global Ecosystem Policy and Product Launch Event was held on November 11 at Huawei's Sanyapo Park in China. During the event, new partner policies and product innovations, including FusionModule2000 6.0, a small/medium-sized modular data center solution, and Small SmartLi UPS, were introduced to partners from across the world. This event demonstrated Huawei's commitment to building a fair and strong partner ecosystem based on mutual trust for shared success.

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African data centre market in the midst of an 'unprecedented growth surge'

African commercial hosting capacity expected to triple over the next five years, to support explosive data traffic flows and accelerated adoption of cloud services.

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Energy efficiency looms large for data centre industry

Managing consumption and carbon footprint driving trends toward regulation, standardisation, and the search for generator alternatives.

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Africa Data Centres extends edge cloud capability through Unitellas partnership

Expansion into West Africa builds on South African implementation.

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Africa Data Centres to become the first East African, EDGE® certified facility

EDGE® certification is a green building certification system for emerging markets created by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.

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Videos

DCS talks to DCBYTE at Data Centre Transformation 2023 - Part 2
In this video we talk to Lily Tozer from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund at the 2023 Data Centre Transformation Event.
Chris Coward, Director of Project Management and heading up the BCS Apprenticeship Programme and Ben Chappell, BCS Assistant Consultant and apprentice, discuss the company’s Apprenticeship Programme in terms of the benefits it delivers for both the business and the participants.
Nick Stapleton, Managing Director at ETB Technologies, explains how refurbished IT has a significant role to play in helping organisations meet’s their sustainability goals, whilst also providing the kind of cost-savings which can mean the difference between an IT project getting the greenlight or being written off as too expensive to provision.

Expert Opinions

By Rhonda Doyle, Senior Director of Field Services Operations at Schneider Electric.
By Federica Monsone, founder and CEO of A3 Communications, the data storage industry PR agency.
By Amit Dhingra, Executive Vice President at NTT Ltd. Network Services.