South Africa-based colocation data centres and interconnection platforms provider for Africa, Teraco Data Environments announced yesterday that it has been acquired by California cloud computing and data centre firm Digital Realty.
Digital Realty is one of the largest providers of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions in...
Netskope, a leading company in Security Service Edge (SSE) and Zero Trust, has announced its continued global expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network with an additional data centre now launched and taking traffic in South Africa.
The new Cape Town deployment complements the existing Johannesburg infrastructure to address growing customer demand,...
Liquid Cloud, the cloud computing arm of pan-African Cassava Technologies, has announced today that it will now offer its customers connectivity to Oracle Cloud products through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect.
This new cross-organisation connectivity will come to South Africa within the Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region, to other organisations...
International hyperscale data centre firm Vantage has opened its first data center facility in Africa with its new Johannesburg campus after breaking ground in 2021.
The two-story facility offers 16MW of critical IT capacity across 130,000 square feet (12,000 square meters). The project was delivered in 10 months, 10 days...
We've come a long way since Thomas Edison and General Electric created the first substantial power grids in the 1880s. But one thing hasn't changed much: work stops when the power goes out.
South Africans have endured front-row seats to this reality as load shedding causes real damage and consequences...
Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, has announced Rubrik Security Cloud to secure customers’ data, wherever it lives, across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS.
Despite investments in infrastructure security tools, cybercriminals are still getting through to the data. ‘It’s time for a new approach,’ says Rubrik, clarifying that ‘The next...
Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand says that in 2020 in response to South Africa's strict lockdown measures, it managed to move its entire learning management system (LMS), Sakai, to the cloud in just two months leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). This allowed the University to quickly continue classes online.
Even in...
While the cloud has been with us for about a decade and a half, in many ways it feels like we are still in the early stages of this journey. It could be said that the foundations for cloud computing were laid some time ago, but the technology only...
Huawei South Africa has announced that its third data centre availability zone is set to go live three years ahead of schedule, as well as its $5.8-million (R100-million) Cloud Spark programme, which is set to provide support to more than 1000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the next...
Cloud computing was first introduced commercially in the 2000s, but since the Covid pandemic in 2020, it has become an essential tool for businesses to improve administrative processes, employee productivity and the customer experience.
However, businesses cannot fully experience the benefits of cloud computing services without higher-bandwidth connectivity, according to...
Telesmart.io, an expert in global number and messaging services, has been selected by Liquid Cloud, a business of pan-African technology service provider Cassava Technologies, as its number inventory management solution provider, according to an announcement from the company.
Liquid Cloud will leverage Telesmart.io’s platform to remove the complexity of storing number inventory and...
Paratus has announced that it is officially ready to open the new Paratus Namibia Armada DC (Data Center) in Windhoek in August 2022. The company says that this will be Namibia's first carrier-neutral data centre.
It opens its doors to both network operators and individual colocation tenants so they will...
US-based Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has announced that it has assisted South African ISP CipherWave with an upgrade to the infrastructure of CipherWave's private cloud environment.
According to the announcement from Nutanix CipherWave selected the company on the merit of its product roadmap, view of the future...
Africa Data Centres, a pan-African technology firm which forms part of the Cassava Technologies Group, has announced the building of a second data centre in Cape Town, South Africa.
The new 20MW facility will cover 15,000 square meters in eight data halls and is situated on the northern periphery of...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have undergone significant evolutions and revolutions over the past few years. From increased capacity, scale, and agility to refined business functionality, ERP is changing how companies manage disruption, business continuity, growth, and long-term success.
This capability is reflected in its current growth statistics with its...
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, announced on Tuesday that the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure.
Supported by Red Hat and Microsoft, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure enables IT organisations to quickly automate and scale in the cloud, with...
