- 'What is a Data Center and Why is Data Center Security so important? - imcgrupo.com 2021-03-31
Modern companies have dedicated themselves to building digital transformation strategies in order to update the teams they employ, reduce costs, have a hyper-connected work scheme and favor the productivity of all areas of the company. Read full information on external site - DC BLOX secures $187m financing for data centre investments - .capacitymedia.com 2021-03-31
DC BLOX has secured $187 million in long-term financing led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit.Read full information on external site - STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Data Centers Receive Management and Operations Stamp of Approval From Uptime Institute - streetinsider.com 2021-03-31
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that its data centers in three major markets have received the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval. Read full information on external site - STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Data Centers Receive Management and Operations Stamp of Approval From Uptime Institute - canadianinsider.com 2021-03-30
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that its data centers in three major markets have received the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval. Read full information on external site - Stack Infrastructure Receives M&O Stamp of Approval From Uptime Institute - missioncriticalmagazine.com 2021-03-30
Stack Infrastructure announced that its data centers in three major markets have received Uptime Institute’s Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval. Read full information on external site - DXN signs two modular data centre orders for $1 million - techinvest.online 2021-03-30
Pre-fabricated modular data centre specialist, DXN Limited (ASX:DXN) has entered into two separate agreements to supply fully prefabricated and engineered factory-built modular data centres to Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) as well as Covalent Lithium Pty Ltd. Read full information on external site - Investors Funding Data Center Projects in Smaller Cities - datacenterfrontier.com 2021-03-29
Investors are increasingly looking to fund data center growth in smaller cities like Chattanooga and Greenville as well as the huge cloud clusters in Northern Virginia and other major markets. Read full information on external site - BoFiNeT targets SADC customers with new datacentre - itweb.africa 2021-03-26
Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNeT) intends to facilitate low latency connectivity for Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe via its 1 000sqm Tier III datacentre. Read full information on external site - Mission-critical considerations for data center UPS deployments - datacenterdynamics.com 2021-03-25
UPS systems are critical to continuity, so plan as if that is true Read full information on external site - Achievement confirms company's continued investment, commitment to its strategy for automating motor insurance services - zawya.com 2021-03-24
The certification was awarded to Najm Main Data Center Riyadh, following a rigorous inspection of the facilities and operations by Uptime Institute experts from the United States and the United Kingdom upon its completion in November 2020 Read full information on external site - "Our current and future datacenters and enterprise cloud fabric are modularly designed keeping dynamic data surge in the formula" - varindia.com 2021-03-24
Data center growth in India: From a Hyperscale datacenter perspective, there are two key elements that matter the most - Availability of on-demand scalable space and power. Read full information on external site - Najm for Insurance Services first insurance entity to receive Uptime Institute Tier III Constructed Facility certification across GCC - eyeofdubai.ae 2021-03-24
Najm for Insurance Services has been awarded the Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) by Uptime Institute, the leading global source for data centers tier certification. Read full information on external site - Najm for Insurance Services first insurance entity to receive Uptime Institute Tier III Constructed Facility certification across GCC - eyeofriyadh.com 2021-03-24
Najm for Insurance Services has been awarded the Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) by Uptime Institute, the leading global source for data centers tier certification. Read full information on external site - Kohler: Celebrating Data Centers, Powering the Future - jsa.net 2021-03-24
Kohler, the data center’s global power partner, celebrates International Data Center Day with a Supporting Sponsorship and other initiatives.Read full information on external site - Najm for Insurance Services first insurance entity to receive Uptime Institute Tier III Constructed Facility certification across GCC - mid-east.info 2021-03-24
Achievement confirms company’s continued investment, commitment to its strategy for automating motor insurance services. Read full information on external site - Citic Networks Becomes Big Data Exchange (Bdx) Connectivity Partner In Nanjing Data Center - techinsideout.co 2021-03-19
BDx and CITIC Networks Will Enable Regional and International Customers to Connect Through One of the Fastest-Growing Areas of China Read full information on external site - CITIC Networks Becomes Big Data Exchange (BDx) Connectivity Partner in Nanjing Data Center - budiputra.com 2021-03-19
BDx and CITIC Networks Will Enable Regional and International Customers to Connect Through One of the Fastest-Growing Areas of China Read full information on external site - CITIC Networks Becomes Big Data Exchange (BDx) Connectivity Partner in Nanjing Data Center - worksmartasia.blogspot.com 2021-03-19
BDx and CITIC Networks Will Enable Regional and International Customers to Connect Through One of the Fastest-Growing Areas of China Read full information on external site - CITIC Networks Becomes Big Data Exchange (BDx) Connectivity Partner in Nanjing Data Center - pr-junction.blogspot.com 2021-03-19
Colt BDx and CITIC Networks Will Enable Regional and International Customers to Connect Through One of the Fastest-Growing Areas of China Read full information on external site - Global Data Centre Spend Will Increase In The Year - .cio.co.ke 2021-02-16
Global data centre spend is expected to reach an impressive total of $208 billion by the end of 2020. Read full information on external site - Softline Has Become the Major IaaS Supplier for Companies on the Level of Enterprise - itnewsonline.com 2021-03-19
The new rankings leader is Softline, which is conspicuous by its large number of cloud data-centers, the largest pool of IT specialists and the lowest cost for services compared to its competitors. Read full information on external site - Hiranandani Group to set up industrial, logistics and data center park in West Bengal - cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com 2021-02-16
The integrated logistics and hyperscale data center park will be set up by Hiranandani group companies GreenBase and Yotta, respectively. Read full information on external site - CITIC Networks Becomes Big Data Exchange (BDx) Connectivity Partner in Nanjing Data Center - prnewswire.com 2021-03-19
BDx and CITIC Networks Will Enable Regional and International Customers to Connect Through One of the Fastest-Growing Areas of China Read full information on external site - Softline has become the major IaaS supplier for companies on the level of Enterprise - viv-media.com 2021-03-18
IT-Marketplace Market CNews updated the ranking of IaaS providers of the Enterprise 2021 level. Several new participants were added to it. Read full information on external site - New iron for old! Why legacy technology is bad for the environment – and your wallet - theregister.com 2021-03-18
How Huawei’s solutions green the data centre and drive operational efficiencies Read full information on external site - Colt DCS' Inzai 1 data centre awarded Stamp of Approval for Management & Operations - australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au 2021-03-17
Aegis9 and Australian Data Centres have entered a strategic partnership to provide customers access to a shared or dedicated cyber security operation centre. Read full information on external site - Data Centers and Fluid Condition Monitoring: Overview - reliabilityweb.com 2021-02-16
We are in a time of duplicity – a part of our life develops in a habitual way in what we consider to be the physical world, but we find another part that, in some cases, consumes much more time and to which many people dedicate more time than to the physical part. Read full information on external site - Gaborone gets ready to welcome Botswana’s largest data centre - developingtelecoms.com 2021-03-16
Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet), a wholesale provider of national and international telecommunication infrastructure, has announced plans to build a data centre at the Science and Technology Park in Gaborone, the country’s capital. Read full information on external site - Climate change: How to make your internet use greener - bbc.co.uk 2021-03-16
Our internet usage has a cost to the climate. Some companies are thinking about how they can store the data that supports our online lifestyles in greener ways. Read full information on external site - West Africa’s Rack Centre secures QMS certification - itweb.africa 2021-03-16
West African carrier neutral datacentre operator Rack Centre has achieved ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) certification. Read full information on external site - Rack Centre gets ISO 9001:2015 certification - thenationonlineng.net 2021-03-16
Tier III Constructed Facility Certified carrier neutral data centre, Rack Centre, has achieved the ISO 9001:2015Read full information on external site - FEPL unveils plans for subsea fibre-optic cable from NT to WA - technologydecisions.com.au 2021-03-16
Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd has unveiled plans to build a 5G-enabled technology ecosystem in WA and NT that will connect the region to Asia Pacific markets.Read full information on external site - NEXTDC brings Australian businesses closer to achieving zero-net carbon emissions - pcworld.co.nz 2021-03-16
SYDNEY, Australia – 15 March 2020. NEXTDC Limited (ASX: NXT) Australia’s leading data centre solutions provider, today announced the launch of NEXTneutral, its new data centre carbon neutrality program. Read full information on external site - NEXTDC brings Australian businesses closer to achieving zero-net carbon emissions - www.pcworld.idg.com.au 2021-03-15
SYDNEY, Australia – 15 March 2020. NEXTDC Limited (ASX: NXT) Australia’s leading data centre solutions provider, today announced the launch of NEXTneutral, its new data centre carbon neutrality program. Read full information on external site - Rack Centre achieves ISO 9001:2015 Certification - techeconomy.ng 2021-03-15
Rack Centre is a leading Carrier Neutral Data Centre in West Africa Read full information on external site - Simon Ngunjiri: Cloud adoption is now a necessity - africabusinesscommunities.com 2021-03-15
As we have previously highlighted, businesses in Africa are increasingly turning to cloud to improve operational efficiency and COVID-19 is accelerating this adoption. Read full information on external site - Plotting the course to next-gen data centers and a new digital infrastructure - bits-chips.nl 2021-03-15
To reach carbon neutrality, it’s going to take an all-hands-on-deck approach. Asperitas is working together with strategic partners like Shell and communities like OCP and SDIA to illustrate the roadmap to the carbon-free data centers of the future. Read full information on external site - FEPL to build $1.5bn infrastructure hub - Project Koete - capacitymedia.com/ 2021-03-15
Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd (FEPL) has unveiled details of Project Koete, its $1.5 billion technology ecosystem in Western Australia and Northern Territory. Read full information on external site - The Need For ‘Reliability’ In A Data Dependent World - publicnow.com 2021-03-15
Data centre outages or breaches cause irreparable damage and costly disruptions that wreak havoc on business operations. Read full information on external site - Fibre Expressway reveals details US$1.5bn Project Koete - voxy.co.nz 2021-03-15
Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd (FEPL) today unveiled the details of Project Koete, a first-of-its-kind US$1.5 billion technology ecosystem in Western Australia and Northern Territory. Read full information on external site - New project to facilitate greater connectivity for WA and NT miners - nationalresourcesreview.com.au 2021-03-15
Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd (FEPL) has unveiled the details of Project Koete, a first-of-its-kind US$1.5 billion technology ecosystem in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Read full information on external site - NEXTDC : The need for ‘reliability' in a data dependent world - marketscreener.com 2021-03-15
Data centre outages or breaches cause irreparable damage and costly disruptions that wreak havoc on business operations. Read full information on external site - The Need For ‘Reliability’ In A Data Dependent World - publicnow.com 2021-03-14
Data centre outages or breaches cause irreparable damage and costly disruptions that wreak havoc on business operations. Read full information on external site - Datacentre Investments – The India Advantage - community.nasscom.in 2021-03-13
India’s datacentre market is well poised to in coming years reaching ~$5 billion by 2025 driven by India’s growing data economy and an increasing focus on data protection and data localisation policies Read full information on external site - Cat electric in Eastern Europe: Poland and Russia - diesel-international.com 2021-03-13
Cat electric in Eastern Europe is a ‘walk’ that starts in Poland and ends in Russia. Read full information on external site - Finding the perfect balance between sustainability and performance - intelligentcio.com 2021-03-12
Andy Connor, Channel Director, EMEA, Subzero Engineering, discusses the need for data centre leaders to become more aware of the environmental consequences of their digital footprint and how best to monitor it as demand for sustainable operations places more pressure upon the industry. Read full information on external site - Finding the perfect balance between sustainability and performance - intelligentdatacentres.com 2021-03-12
Andy Connor, Channel Director, EMEA, Subzero Engineering, discusses the need for data centre leaders to become more aware of the environmental consequences of their digital footprint and how best to monitor it as demand for sustainable operations places more pressure upon the industry. Read full information on external site - Finding the perfect balance between sustainability and performance - intelligenttechchannels.com 2021-03-12
AAndy Connor, Channel Director, EMEA, Subzero Engineering, discusses the need for data centre leaders to become more aware of the environmental consequences of their digital footprint and how best to monitor it as demand for sustainable operations places more pressure upon the industry. Read full information on external site - Delta’s Pod Data Center Solution Enables Vietnam’s First Uptime Tccf Tier Iii-certified Data Center For Hanoi Telecom’s Subsidiary Htc-itc - processindustrymatch.com 2021-03-12
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, has just announced the successful implementation of its energy-saving POD (Point of Delivery) data center solution to enable Vietnam’s first Uptime TCCF (Tier Certification of Constructed Facility) TIER III-certified data center for HTC-ITC, a subsidiary of Hanoi Telecom. Read full information on external site - WA, NT to benefit from $1.5 billion cable and data centre ecosystem - ecdonline.com.au 2021-03-12
Western Australia and the Northern Territory will experience the most significant technological investment the region’s ever seen, with Fibre Expressway (FEPL) unveiling a first-of-its-kind US$1.5 billion technology ecosystem build, deepening the interconnectivity between Perth, Darwin and Asia. Read full information on external site - FEPL reveals details of WA and NT US$1.5bn Project Koete - intelligentcio.com 2021-03-12
Fiber Expressway Pty Ltd has announced Project Koete which includes a high-speed low-latency subsea cable connecting with three data center hubs in Perth, Darwin and Dampier. Read full information on external site - FEPL reveals details of WA and NT US$1.5bn Project Koete - intelligentdatacentres.com 2021-03-12
Fiber Expressway Pty Ltd has announced Project Koete which includes a high-speed low-latency subsea cable connecting with three data center hubs in Perth, Darwin and Dampier. Read full information on external site - IXcellerate Expands to Support Growing Russian Data Center Market - missioncriticalmagazine.com 2021-03-12
Backed by 21.4 MW of standby power from Zeppelin Power Systems and Caterpillar Read full information on external site - FEPL Reveals Details of WA and NT US$1.5bn Project Koete - australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au 2021-03-12
Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd (FEPL) has unveiled the details of Project Koete, a first-of-its-kind US$1.5 billion technology ecosystem in Western Australia and Northern Territory. Read full information on external site - From PUE to ‘GUE’ – Measuring the Continued Evolution of Data Center Sustainability - datacenterfrontier.com 2021-02-08
Sean Farney, Director of Data Center Marketing, Kohler Power Systems, highlights the need for an all-encompassing and standardized way to measure and report on data center sustainability across the entire data center ecosystem. Read full information on external site - The future of work: Coming sooner than you think – CIO - businesstelegraph.co.uk 2021-02-08
Prior the pandemic, you could ask a dozen people what “the future of work” meant and get 13 different answers. Read full information on external site - The future of work: Coming sooner than you think – CIO - businessfast.co.uk 2021-02-08
Prior the pandemic, you could ask a dozen people what “the future of work” meant and get 13 different answers. Read full information on external site - 5 data centre trends that should be on your radar - blog.allstream.com 2021-03-11
2021 could be a ‘standout’ year in which a number of emerging technologies gain traction in data centres, according to the latest trends forecast from the Uptime Institute. Read full information on external site - Bringing Utility-Level Reliability to Data Centers - missioncriticalmagazine.com 2021-03-11
Seemingly overnight, COVID-19 elevated data centers from resources to utilities. While global financial markets have been severely and negatively impacted by the pandemic, that shock would have cut much deeper were it not for workers’ and students’ abilities to carry on from home. Read full information on external site - Chayora Recognized for Data Centre Design - pipelinepub.com 2021-03-10
Chayora first Northern China datacentre to be awarded provisional Uptime Institute Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility Read full information on external site - Video | Data Center Minute With Uptime Institute - missioncriticalmagazine.com 2021-03-10
In this episode of Data Center Minute, Amy Al-Katib, editor-in-chief of Mission Critical, talks with Uptime Institute's vice president of research, Rhonda Ascierto, and executive director of research, Andy Lawrence. Watch the interview to hear what they predict for the data center industry in 2021. Read full information on external site - Essar Selects Yotta Infrastructure as their Digital Transformation Partner - expresscomputer.in 2021-02-08
Winds up captive datacentres and consolidates all IT infrastructure at Yotta’s NM1 Datacenter Read full information on external site - AIIM acquires majority stake in Accra Data Centre - thebftonline.com 2021-03-10
AIIM expands its digital infrastructure footprint with investment in carrier-neutral, co-location data centre via newly-incorporated Onix Data Centre platform Read full information on external site - Chayora first Northern China data centre to receive Uptime Institute award - capacitymedia.com 2021-03-10
Chayora Limited has revealed that it is the first data centre in Northern China to have been awarded both Uptime’s Institute Tier III Certificate of Design Documents and a provisional Tier IIII Certification of Constructed Facility. Read full information on external site - Deep Dive: James Byaruhanga, General Manager of Raxio Data Centre - intelligentdatacentres.com 2021-03-09
Raxio Data Centre has become the First Tier III Design Certified Data Centre in Uganda. In this Deep Dive, James Byaruhanga, General Manager talks about his most memorable achievement in the data centre industry and what he believes are the industry’s major areas of investment. Read full information on external site - 2020 Was a Bright Spot for Women in Cyber, Report Finds - meritalk.com 2021-03-08
While 2020 was certainly a challenging year, a new report found that nearly half of women in the cybersecurity field say COVID-19 positively affected their career, with only 9 percent saying the pandemic negatively impacted their job Read full information on external site - AzInTelecom data centre gets Tier 3 certificate - telecompaper.com 2021-03-08
The reserved data centre of Azerbaijan state-owned operator AzInTelecom received the Tier 3 Facility certificate from the Uptime Institute, reports Trend. All the equipment and systems of the critical infrastructure at the data centre were tested. Read full information on external site - With connectivity on the rise, Africa is a hotspot for datacentre investments - computerweekly.com 2021-03-08
We look at opportunities for datacentre operators in setting up or partnering with local firms in Africa Read full information on external site - Upgrade promised for leading Ghanaian data centre - developingtelecoms.com 2021-03-08
Ghana’s only Tier IV data centre has reportedly been bought by fund management group African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), which now promises to make the former Etix facility the largest data centre in the country. Read full information on external site - Most Texas Data Centers Weathered the Storm, But Things Did Not Go Smoothly - datacenterknowledge.com 2021-03-08
From generator fuel delivery issues to mechanical and electrical systems failing because of the extreme cold, it was one giant corner case of a week. Read full information on external site - Most Texas Data Centers Weathered the Storm, But Things Did Not Go Smoothly - itprotoday.com 2021-03-07
WFrom generator fuel delivery issues to mechanical and electrical systems failing because of the extreme cold, it was one giant corner case of a week. Read full information on external site - Yotta plans 240MW campus in Kolkata - capacitymedia.com 2021-03-05
Yotta Infrastructure has unveiled plans for a US$150 million, 240Mw data centre park in Kolkata, West Bengal. Read full information on external site - AIIM acquires majority stake in Ghana’s Ngoya Etix DC - itweb.africa 2021-03-05
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, together with the management team of the new Onix Data Centres Limited (Onix DC) platform, have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana) Ltd, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks), via AIIM’s flagship pan-African infrastructure fund, AIIF3. Read full information on external site - African Infrastructure Investment Managers acquires majority stake in Ghana-based data centre - africanreview.com 2021-03-05
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, and Onix Data Centres (“Onix DC”), have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks), via AIIM’s flagship pan-African infrastructure fund, AIIF3 Read full information on external site - Analysis: How will China’s internet giants become carbon neutral? - agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net 2021-03-05
China’s big internet firms are lagging their overseas counterparts on reducing emissions in their operations, supply chains and the many businesses they facilitate, writes Ye Ruiqui. Read full information on external site - Prioritising workloads in a hyper-converged infrastructure migration - computerweekly.com 2021-03-04
A cost-effective approach to combining virtualisation and unified management probably means deploying it workload by workload, experts suggest Read full information on external site - Hyper-converged infrastructure: Why software-defined everything might not work for all datacentres - computerweekly.com 2021-03-04
Choosing the right converged infrastructure in the first instance can pivot on a trade-off between security and agility requirements Read full information on external site - Industry Report | Five Data Center Trends for 2021 - missioncriticalmagazine.com 2021-03-04
Sector dynamics, market developments, innovations, challenges, and opportunities Read full information on external site - African Infrastructure Investment Managers acquire majority stake in Ghana-based data centre - businessghana.com 2021-03-04
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (“AIIM”), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, together with the management team of the new Onix Data Centres Limited (“Onix DC”) platform, have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana) Ltd, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks), via AIIM’s flagship pan-African infrastructure fund, AIIF3. Read full information on external site - Cloudlayer8 Launches Its Brand-New And Upgraded Corporate Website - goldnews.com.cy 2021-03-03
CloudLayer8 (CL8), the first independent, carrier neutral, state-of-the-art Tier III Data Center in Cyprus, has announced the launch of its new upgraded corporate website www.cl8.com. Read full information on external site - Cyprus based CL8 launches its brand-new and upgraded corporate website - cyprusshippingnews.com 2021-03-03
CloudLayer8 (CL8), the first independent, carrier neutral, state-of-the-art Tier III Data Center in Cyprus, has announced the launch of its new upgraded corporate website www.cl8.com. Read full information on external site - Safe home for the rising piles of data - dqindia.com 2021-03-03
Rising digitisation has made data centres the cornerstone of ICT landscape. We speak to industry leaders about tech options, challenges, policies, and market prospects Read full information on external site - With New Funding, Salute Tackles the Data Center Staffing Challenge - datacenterfrontier.com 2021-03-02
Salute Inc. co-founder and Chairman Lee Kirby speaks at a recent data center industry conference. (Photo: RIch Miller) Read full information on external site