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Liquid cooling in data centres a turning point for Africa

by Kathy Gibson | December 17, 2025 | Servers Trends | 0 Comments

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in how organisations operate, the infrastructure behind these digital tools is undergoing a profound shift. Data centre capacity to power AI processes must increase, and rapidly, by expanding and upgrading...

Rethinking data to power public sector AI

by Kathy Gibson | November 17, 2025 | Servers Trends | 0 Comments

Across South Africa, public sector agencies are actively testing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. By President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa Early pilots are already delivering tangible benefits, with some organisations reporting notable time...

Laser Light Africa signs up with Digital Parks Africa

by Kathy Gibson | November 16, 2025 | Servers | 0 Comments

Digital Parks Africa (DPA) and Laser Light Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a sovereign edge and network aggregation node. The facility will be located within DPA’s flagship Tier III carrier-neutral data centre campus in Samrand,...

AI-powered maintenance key to data centre efficiency, resiliency, sustainability

by Kathy Gibson | November 5, 2025 | Servers Trends | 0 Comments

The data centre marketplace is facing a conundrum of sorts; on the one hand, operators are now investing heavily in infrastructure to meet AI’s growing demands, on the other hand, it still (often) relies on outdated maintenance methods to manage mission-critical...

Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers boom

by Allan Davison | Feb 1, 2013 | Servers, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Oracle has announced its SPARC T4 servers featuring Oracle Solaris power mission-critical workloads in over 3 000 enterprises worldwide, nearly four times the number announced one year ago. Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers have been adopted globally across all major...

Revolutionising data centre construction

by Allan Davison | Jan 22, 2013 | Servers Trends, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

As a CFO, CEO or CIO with a data centre (or possibly several) in the organisation, users are undoubtedly aware that they devour electricity like small cities and that the up-front capital investment, cost of expansion and re-development is somewhere between painful...

Oracle announces IaaS solution

by Allan Davison | Jan 17, 2013 | Servers, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Adding to its comprehensive and flexible cloud portfolio, Oracle has announced Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (Oracle IaaS) with Capacity on Demand. Oracle IaaS enables organisations to deploy fully integrated engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database...