Unlocking Africa’s data centre potential
Africa's data centre market is booming, ringing in an era of hyperscale for the continent. By Stephen Rose, director of Royal HaskoningDHV's mission-critical facilities Africa unit Industry giants such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are vying to establish new nodes...
Four aspects to consider when designing a green data centre
Organisations across the globe are rapidly embracing sustainability goals and programmes, recognising that going green is not just beneficial to our planet but also good for business. The challenge, however, is to move from goals and promises to progress and action....
HPE adds cloud services, portfolio to HPE GreenLake
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a significant expansion of offerings and innovation across its HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, hybrid cloud services, private cloud portfolio, and partner ecosystem. * HPE closes OpsRamp acquisition; solution is now...
Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers Deliver Greater Energy Efficiency
South Africa’s energy crisis has become a driving force for organisations to optimise the efficiency of their data centres by reducing power consumption as far as possible while maintaining high levels of performance. A new range of Dell PowerEdge servers, powered by...
Creating the path to a modern green data centre
According to a recent Forrester study commissioned by Dell Technologies, businesses overprovision their storage environment by an average of 37%, suggesting a good number of customers could realise benefits through consolidation. By reducing data, increasing drive...
Lenovo launches edge automation at scale
At MWC 2023, Lenovo announced the next generation of ThinkEdge remote automation and orchestration with the introduction of new software solutions to accelerate the deployment of edge solutions. Lenovo's new Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) 2.6 software delivers...
Lenovo, WEKA to accelerate AI and analytics
Lenovo and WEKA have announced a new global agreement focused on offering solutions for next-generation data management architectures and performance-intensive workloads for delivery in more than 160 markets worldwide. These solutions will accelerate artificial...
Lenovo unveils Intel-based smart infrastructure solutions
Lenovo has unveiled 25 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile server and hyperconverged solutions powered by Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processors as part of its recently announced Infrastructure Solutions V3 portfolio. Designed to help accelerate global IT...
Data centres the power behind our everyday necessities
With the help of data centres, we can take advantage of many conveniences in our everyday lives. They are the physical infrastructure behind cloud computing. By Thiani Ramaya, business practice lead for Microsoft at Westcon-Comstor In South Africa, Microsoft data...
Fujitsu announces next-gen Primergy M7 server series
Fujitsu has announced the launch of its next-generation Primergy M7 servers leveraging the new 4th gen of Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Platform technology. Offering best-in-class performance and energy efficiency on industry-standard CPU technology, the Primergy M7...
Data centre predictions for 2023
At the forefront of the digitalisation age and the human need for stronger, faster connections to each other and our communities, data centres occupy a crossroads in today’s interconnected world. By Chris Pennington, director of energy and sustainability at Iron...
Vantage announces second Joburg campus
Vantage Data Centres has announced the construction of a second campus (JNB2) in Johannesburg. The JNB2 Isando campus is strategically located in Ekurhuleni, the greater Johannesburg Metropol’s trade and industry hub, and approximately 17km from Vantage’s growing JNB1...