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NAPAfrica celebrates a new peak at 15Gbps

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NAPAfrica, Africa’s most successful neutral peering exchange has reached a record-breaking peak of 15Gbps, making it the largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Africa. NAPAfrica is housed within each of Teraco’s vendor neutral data centre facilities in sub-Saharan Africa.

IT has growing opportunity to become a strategic provider to the business

IT departments must free themselves from the pressures of tactical necessities before they can be seen as key contributors to business strategy and operational excellence.

There are just three simple rules of engagement for IoT, according to a new white paper from Flexeye

Whatever their size, interest, geography and industry – all businesses will benefit from remembering just three simple rules of engagement when embracing the Internet of Things, says a new report published by technology company Flexeye.

Published in DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd. (VIRTUS), London's flexible and efficient data centre specialist, has announced the public availability of VIRTUS Market Place, enabling customers to showcase their services and make VIRTUS Data Centres’ expanding and vibrant ecosystem more visible and accessible to existing and prospective customers and partners.

Cloud hardware spending breaks $4 billion mark

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures and vendors' strategies. The overall investment in hardware for cloud environments in EMEA is expected to exceed $4 billion in terms of user value by the end of 2014, with a strong 19% YoY growth. 15% of the infrastructure spend in EMEA will be...

Apple and IBM forge global partnership

Apple and IBM have announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad.

Prepare for ‘partial failures’ of IT infrastructure like Visa outage

Visa’s letter to the Treasury Select Committee, documenting details behind the recent outage...

Keysource wins China Telecom contract

China Telecom has awarded Keysource, the data centre and critical environment specialist, a...

Equinix signs new wind PPA in Sweden with Neoen

Equinix’s PPA with Neoen will be the fourth contract signed with the company following similar...

eToro chooses TelecityGroup’s Cloud-IX to drive innovation via the hybrid cloud

Social investment network uses Azure ExpressRoute to achieve flexible cloud deployment while...

Hyperscalers propel data centre CAPEX to new heights

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the US cloud hyperscalers—Amazon,...

iomart confirms plans for Tier 3 Manchester data centre

New facility will meet growing demand in city.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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