Datacentre operators are under increasing pressure to meet sustainability goals and address their carbon footprint. According to Harvard Business Review, 99% of large company CEOs agree that sustainability forms a vital part of their business’s future success. Furthermore, 75% of…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has partnered with wingu.africa a pioneer provider of carrier-neutral data center services in Tanzania. The company is also the foremost specialist carrier-neutral data center group in East Africa…
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…
With many organisations moving from a centralised approach to data management towards a more distributed model, IoT-generated data is moving closer to the edge and with it the emergence of prefabricated data centres, often modular in design. However, an important…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Telrad, an Israeli-based technology company. The company develops innovative technology solutions across business areas including networking, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, data…
Summary: Datacentre & Cloud Infrastructure Summit 2022 – Africa, a two-day virtual mega-scale summit, focused on Datacentre & Cloud Infrastructure will shed light on Africa’s market dynamics and its valiant effort towards enabling data sovereignty, all the while facilitating collaboration…
On Friday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) South Africa, a multinational technology company, announced two new appointments to the country’s leadership team. Michael Langeveld is appointed as Chief Technology Officer, and Celeste Le Grange assumes the position of Head of Channel,…
Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral data centre and interconnection solutions provider, announced today that Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a…
Africa Data Centres, the continent’s leading carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, is strongly expanding in Nairobi. The company has begun the development of a second data centre of up to 20MW of IT load and is securing land for a…
The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced a new partnership with South African tech group Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) to expand data center capacity and the rollout of fiber-optic cable across the continent. IFC’s equity and debt…