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- 17 Jan 2024
The Case for Prefabricated Modular Datacentres has been Made
By Faith Waithaka, Cloud and Service Provider Segment Sales Lead: Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric The prefabricated modular datacentre is not a new concept by any means, offering a fast and…
- 28 Oct 2020
Liquid Telecom Commences Construction of $100M Datacentre in Lagos
Liquid Telecom’s Africa Data Centres, pan-African network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral datacentres, has embarked on the construction of what it describes as one of the largest…
- 15 Oct 2021
Nigeria, Ethiopia Ripe for Datacentre Development
COVID-19 has fast-tracked digital transformation and will drive utilisation and the case for increased investment in datacentres across Africa, with countries like Ethiopia and Nigeria identified as…
- 14 Mar 2024
Women in Datacentres must be Prioritised
By Faith Waithaka, Cloud and Service Provider Segment Sales Lead: Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric As the African datacentre sector emerges as an important global player gender diversity must…
- 26 May 2020
Liquid Telecom Eyes Datacentre Expansion in Nigeria, Ghana
Strive Masiyiwa, Executive Chairman of the Liquid Telecom Group, confirmed that plans are at an advanced stage to enter West Africa and said: “We have secured land to build the largest datacentres in…
- 6 Apr 2021
Africa Data Centres Commits to West African Hub with Lagos Datacentre
Africa Data Centres, the pan-African network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral datacentres and part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has confirmed a significant investment into the…
- 7 Mar 2019
Microsoft Opens First Datacentres in Africa with General Availability of Azure
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the opening of its first datacentres in Africa, with the general availability of Azure from the new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. This…
- 24 Jun 2020
African Datacentre Operators Back Free Hosting
Datacentre operators in Africa have highlighted the rationale behind their decision last month to start offering free cloud hosting for applications in an effort to curb COVID-19. In a statement,…
- 7 Mar 2019
Microsoft Unveils First Datacentres in Africa
Microsoft announced the opening of its first datacentres in Africa, with the general availability of Azure from the new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. This makes Microsoft…
- 19 May 2017
Microsoft to Deliver Cloud Services from Datacentres in Africa
Last Night, Microsoft revealed plans to deliver the complete, intelligent Microsoft Cloud for the first time from datacentres located in Africa. This new investment is a major milestone in the…
- 9 Feb 2021
Uneven Datacentre Distribution Widens Digital Gap in Africa
The lack of infrastructure has made digital services across Africa inaccessible for many on the continent. According to a recent white paper by Xalam Analytics and Africa Data Centre Association,…
- 29 Aug 2017
Schneider Electric Innovates with EcoStruxure Solutions for Datacentres
Schneider Electric has further reaffirmed its position as one of the most innovative global specialists in energy management and automation with the introduction of EcoStruxure platform. The new…
- 15 Aug 2016
Layer3, Juniper Networks Host Evolution of Datacentre Workshop
ICT Industry stakeholders comprising participants from service providers, the public sector, oil and gas companies, energy companies, military and security agencies amongst others were recently…
- 26 Jan 2009
ChamsAccess Invests N350m in Datacentre
Professor Adebayo Akinde, chairman, Chams Nigeria Plc, has said that ChamsAccess Limted, a newly created subsidiary of Chams Nigeria Plc one of the e- solutions company in Nigeria has invested about…
- 22 Aug 2022
Africa Data Centres Draws $83m of DFC Investment to Drive Expansion Plan
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, is executing an ambitious plan to build datacentres in ten of Africa’s largest economic capitals – and has drawn US$83-million, the first…
- 7 Feb 2020
Africa Data Centres Association Seeks Greater Investment in 2020
Africa's datacentre market features 85 competitors from 54 countries within a continent that is home to 1.3billion people, and with an overall geographic area similar to Paris or Amsterdam, it is…
- 20 May 2026
Nigeria gets AI-ready Lagos data centre
Kasi Cloud Datacentres has launched an AI-ready hyperscale data centre in Lagos, marking a significant step in Nigeria’s digital infrastructure expansion and cloud localisation ambitions. The company…
- 31 Mar 2020
ADC Ranks Africa Data Centres, As Nigeria Shows Growth Potentials
Africa Data Centres, the pan-African network of vendor-and carrier-neutral datacentres, has ranked Kenya in second place just behind South Africa in terms of the growth and development of its…
- 29 Aug 2022
Galaxy Backbone to Launch Tier 1V Data Center
As part of efforts to boost digital infrastructure, the Galaxy Backbone (GBB) will tomorrow launch its Tier IV Datacentre into the public and private sector space. According to the agency, the Tier…
- 7 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Expands West Africa Presence with New Ghana Facility
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, said it has commenced with the construction of a 30MW datacentre facility in Accra, Ghana. According to a statement released to the media,…
- 12 Mar 2019
Microsoft to Launch Cognition Africa team in Lagos
Microsoft has confirmed plans to establish a Cognition Africa engineering team in Lagos Nigeria having recently launched its first datacentre in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the…
- 9 Mar 2014
Business Connexion Attains 2nd Tier Data Centre Certification
The Uptime Institute, The Global Data Centre Authority, has recently awarded Business Connexion its 2nd Tier IV datacentre certification for the New Road Data Centre 2 (NDC2), based on the design of…
- 12 Jun 2017
Telcos Must Innovate, Stop Fighting OTTs - Nnamani
Engineer Ikechukwu Nnamani is the President/Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited. With over 15 years of core telecom experience, Engr. Nnamani is very active in promoting…
- 22 Apr 2019
Data Centres Connecting to IXPN will Assist to Localise Traffic - Coker
Ayotunde Coker is the managing director of Rack Centre a Data centre operator. He spoke to Chike Onwuegbuchi on the importance of data centres interconnecting through Internet exchange point of…
- 1 Dec 2018
Galaxy Backbone Organizes Customer Appreciation Week
Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has just concluded its first annual Customer Appreciation Week. A series of events held to thank their Customers for the continued patronage of Galaxy’s services over the years.…
- 1 Oct 2020
Cloud Market Poised for Adoption in Nigeria
COVID-19 has exposed Nigeria’s market to the advantages that cloud can offer a business, and there is a shift in mindset to embrace the cloud operating model (including from on-premise to…
- 17 Apr 2020
Galaxy Backbone Continues To Strengthen Unified Digital Communications In Government
In the last two weeks of the Federal Government shut down of business and social operations in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos & Ogun States due to the global pandemic of the Corona Virus…
- 11 Jun 2019
Galaxy Backbone Provides Infrastructure to Implement E-government Master Plan
The E-government master plan initially approved by the previous Federal Executive Council was launched and published for the consumption of the entire nation. The official launch was carried out by…
- 21 Nov 2021
Cameroun Seeks to Model Nigeria’s E-Government Success Story
A delegation from the Ministry of Public Service &Administration Reforms in Cameroun recently visited Nigeria to inspect the depth of the E-government implementation in Nigeria developed and…
- 12 Oct 2020
Orange Seeks Collaboration to Drive One Africa Network Project
Telecommunications firm Orange, a platinum member of the Smart Africa Alliance, supports the One Africa Network (OAN) project, established to help reduce the cost of communication and keep the…