Diversified Computing Centres, Enabling a Green and Smart Africa
The 2024 Pan-African DataCentres Exhibition and Conference took place this week at the Sandton Convention Centre. At this gathering nearly 3,000 global data centre energy customers, as well as 120 integrators, consulting firms, and industry associations shared...
Vertiv premiers TimberMod and AI-focused portfolio
Vertiv is participating in the forthcoming Pan African DataCentres Exhibition and Conference 2024, being held in Sandton (16 and 17 July 2024). The event addresses the needs of those involved in the creation of data centres and critical digital infrastructure across...
Inq enables Mimecase peering
Inq is providing Mimecast with the services needed to peer at NAPAfrica in Teraco Isando, enabling reliable routing and the free exchange of traffic with Africa's largest Internet exchange community. Inq connects more than 1 200 of the continent's largest corporations...
Vertiv adds direct expansion cooling unit
Vertiv has introduced the Vertiv Liebert PDX-PAM direct expansion perimeter units with low global warming potential (GWP) and non-flammable R513A refrigerant. Available now in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the system is designed to operate with an...
Vertiv debuts end-to-end AI power and cooling solutions
As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance compute (HPC) continue to disrupt the data centre landscape, Vertiv has announced a new portfolio of high-density data centre infrastructure solutions to support the higher power and cooling requirements of AI. Now...
Vertiv launches pre-integrated IT rack for demanding edge applications
The proliferation of edge computing use cases has shifted critical equipment and data from the protected confines of the data centre to more demanding environments where heat, humidity, air quality, and physical security are significant challenges. Recognising this...
NAPAfrica debuts network time protocol (NTP) service
NAPAfrica will offer clients a network time protocol (NTP) service using Adtran's Oscilloquartz synchronisation technology to offer enterprise clients highly accurate, secure, and reliable time-as-a-service (TaaS), enabling organisations to meet stringent timing...
AI, scarcity, power all key datacentre trends
It's easy to say that 2023 was the year of AI, or generative AI to be more specific. Adjusting to its demands - and exploiting its potential - will continue to be a big ask for the datacentre industry this year, compounded by the need for stable energy supply, cooling...
Innovative solutions for sustainable high-performance computing
High performance computing (HPC) is revolutionising the problem-solving capabilities of engineers, data scientists and other IT specialists across a range of industries, worldwide. By Tony Bartlett, director of data centre compute at Dell Technologies South Africa It...
Will data centres be able to keep up with future digitalisation?
As we look towards the digital future of 2030 and beyond, the global landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. At Vertiv's recent Accelerate 2.0 event in Durban and Cape Town, Jon Abbott, technologies director and industry advisory for strategic clients in EMEA...
AI is driving data centres to the edge
The data centre has become the cornerstone that links our digitally interconnected world. At the same time, the rapid growth and application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is shaping the design and operation of data centres. By Ben Selier,...
IT, is that you?
More than $460-billion. That's the combined revenue of IT outsourcing across the key segments of administration, application, web hosting, SaaS and adjacent services in 2023. This vast, sprawling market designed to lift and shift the burdens from organisational...