Flexenclosure, Virtutel partner in Australia
Swedish designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centre buildings Flexenclosure has entered in to a strategic partnership with Australian telecommunications provider Virtutel, with the intent to build up to 20 data centres across Australia. The new facilities...
Fujitsu in liquid cooling breakthrough
With trends like high performance computing and high quality client virtualisation the server density reach new heights in data centres worldwide. The increasing density often leads to power and cooling challenges for traditional air-cooled facilities. Fujitsu's new...
IS joins Nexcenter network
Internet Solutions' Parklands data centre has joined the Nexcenter network. Parklands is the first data centre in Africa to meet the stringent technology and service standards defined by the NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international...
Video surveillance demand set to increase
Mimicking global trends, South Africa can expect an increased demand for cloud storage on the back of several trends including Microsoft's recent Azure announcement. It is estimated that more than 50% of global information is now housed in a cloud and according to...
Turn server-room cabinets into secure-contained units
Traditional datacentre facilities are made up of cabinets and a jumble of cables, hardware and other equipment with very little cohesion. Yes, they work, but the environments are noisy, expensive to run, and don't live up to their potential in terms of efficiency....
SDN enables today’s business cases
Computer networks are the heart of modern communication, and software-defined networking (SDN) is considered revolutionary in terms of how today's networks are designed, built and operated. "SDNs are far more agile than the LANs and WANs of the past. Their elasticity...
Fujitsu servers for the digital era
Fujitsu has announces the availability of a series of new, fully refreshed Primergy and PrimeQuest servers designed for the business demands of the digital era. Featuring the latest Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family, Fujitsu's updated server range introduces new,...
Fujitsu debuts PrimeFlex data analytics reference models
Fujitsu today launches a new reference model for its Fujitsu Integrated System PrimeFlex for High Performance Computing (HPC) solution, enabling customers to run accelerated computing on growing amounts of unstructured data by leveraging HPC infrastructures to provide...
Fujitsu adds deep learning to nVidia GPUs
Fujitsu today announces the addition of nVidia Volta Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence and support deep learning processing on its latest Primergy x86 servers. Available to customers in Europe, the Middle East, India...
EcoStruxure offers IoT-enabled plug-and-play
Schneider Electric's new EcoStruxure Industrial Software Platform offers IoT-enabled, plug-and-play, open architecture, which delivers end-to-end solutions in six domains of expertise -- power, IT, building, machine, plant and grid -- for four end markets, building,...
Energy Vision deploys hybrid power system
African telecom ESCO Energy Vision has ordered more than 100 units of Flexenclosure's eSite x10, ahybrid power system purpose-built for outdoor telecom sites and to outdoor telecom standards, for a large rollout of cell site power systems in Burkina Faso, for use by a...
Mellanox InfiniBand central to CHPC growth
Almost two years have passed since the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chose Mellanox FDR InfiniBand to assist it in its goal of providing high-end computing resources to the South African...