Data centre power and cooling challenges

There’s no doubt that the challenges of cooling a data centre are tricky. Global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric, advises focussing on the following four core challenges to get a head start in keeping a company’s data centre power and cooling...

Addressing the data centre in the cloud

Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move, says Roelof Louw, Cloud Expert at T-Systems in South Africa.  For small medium enterprises...

Huawei unveils Cloud Data Centre solution

Huawei Enterprise South Africa, a business group of Huawei Technologies – the world’s largest telecommunications and ICT equipment manufacturer – this week announced the introduction of its Cloud Data Centre solution to the local market. Developed upon an...

West African data centre market grows

The data centre market in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal is still in the nascent stage, with only a handful of market participants. Unlike South Africa, there are no international vendors rendering data centre services to businesses in these three countries. The market is...

Otel relocates to Teraco data centre

In response to growing demand for its VoIP and broadband infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Otel Telecoms has relocated flagship LiTE service, which hosts the 1Cloud Hosted PBX and SIP Trunk product, to the secure and vendor-neutral Teraco data centre. Extending the...