Don’t forget the data centre

Flexible, efficient data centres are now more vital than ever before, says Huawei’s Lauren Fan, president of Huawei Enterprise Business for East and Southern Africa. A decade ago, enterprise level computing was highly focussed on driving efficiency within the data...

Outsourcing the data centre

Positioning of the core IT infrastructure and related technology integration, upgrade and deployment to bolster the data centre can have far-reaching consequences for business. Experts in the provision of managed ICT and professional services suggest that outsourcing...

Teraco secures R200m debt facility

Teraco Data Environments, the neutral co-location data centre operator and Internet exchange hub, has secured a R200-million medium term funding facility from Absa’s Corporate and Investment Banking division.  “The funds raised are the largest by an independently...

Alexander Forbes rolls out green data centre

Alexander Forbes, an established financial services company specialising in short-term and long-term insurance, health, retirement and multi-manager investment solutions internationally, has demonstrated its commitment to green technologies, with the rollout of a...

Vodacom Mozambique deploys e-centre

Flexenclosure, a specialist developer of intelligent power management systems and pre-fabricated data centres for the ICT industry, has deployed an e-centre – an energy efficient and pre-fabricated data centre – in response to an order from Vodacom Mozambique. The...