Why placing all your eggs in one cloud can be a problem
By Press Release 24 April 2017Brendan McAravey, country manager of Citrix South Africa, weighs in on why having all your cloud-based services with one provider may present problems. FULL STORY >
Teraco raises R1.2 billion in debt funding for further investment into South African data centres
By Press Release 15 March 2017Teraco today announced that it has raised a medium term funding facility from Absa amounting to R1.2 billion. FULL STORY >
Anglo American halves data centre floor space, improves power consumption
By Press Release 29 November 2016Anglo American plc has consolidated three separate data rooms into one smaller, more efficient and easier to monitor data centre. This project has allowed the globally diversified mining business to reduce floor space... FULL STORY >
Data centres in the cloud: what’s the risk to your business?
By Press Release 8 November 2016the power of computing is moving to the cloud. You don’t need a powerful, clunky machine anymore because data is being accessed through even more powerful infrastructure built around the incredible processing power that now exists... FULL STORY >
Hurricane Electric marks first expansion into Africa with new PoP in Teraco Johannesburg and peering at NAPAfrica
By Press Release 21 July 2016Housed within Teraco, the new PoP will meet the growing demand for high-speed connectivity in Southern Africa’s emerging economy. FULL STORY >
NetApp ONTAP 9 software simplifies transition to hybrid cloud, next-generation data centre
By Press Release 1 June 2016Data management software integrates the best of traditional and emerging technologies to provide foundation for customers’ next-generation Data Fabric architecture. FULL STORY >
Lenovo and Juniper Networks announce global partnership
By Staff Writer 11 March 2016The new Lenovo and Juniper Networks partnership will focus on the development of next-level data centre infrastructures. FULL STORY >
Teraco: Building Africa’s biggest data centre
By Press Release 29 February 2016In a build comprising 17 500sqm, Teraco, Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, will be adding to its existing colocation facility and creating Africa’s largest data centre. FULL STORY >
Aptronics receives SITA accreditation to provide data centre solutions in the public sector
By Press Release 18 December 2015Aptronics has been reappointed to the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Server and Storage RFB 2003/2014Transversal Contract FULL STORY >
Dell introduces new campus and data centre networking solutions
By Staff Writer 25 September 2015Dell recently announced expansions to its networking portfolio to address growing complexities in campus networking and skyrocketing bandwidth demands in the data centre. FULL STORY >
When does moving to a modern data centre or colocation facility make financial sense?
By Staff Writer 9 September 2015“Data centres are renowned energy guzzlers, consuming 3% of all global energy production and roughly 10 times more energy per square metre than the average office FULL STORY >
VMware unveils the easiest way to deploy and operate the software-defined data centre at scale
By Staff Writer 1 September 2015Designed to dramatically simplify the build out and ongoing operations of software-defined data centre at scale, VMware has announced VMware EVO SDDC and VMware Virtual SAN 6.1. FULL STORY >
Bringing facilities management into data centre design
By Staff Writer 18 August 2015According to the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), facility management (FM) is defined as “a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people,... FULL STORY >
How data centre security can uphold online democracy
By Staff Writer 17 August 2015Government hacking of sensitive data has become a norm. This time it’s allegations that Chinese authorities hacked the Office of Personnel Management network, accessing information belonging to millions of US federal employees in what has... FULL STORY >
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