Tag: Data Centre
Microsoft, Google’s AI Data Centres Are Too Thirsty
Microsoft's data centres in West Des Moines, Iowa, have come under scrutiny for their substantial water consumption. According to a report by the Associated...
Green Data Centres Take Centre Stage at Africa Climate Summit 2023
In a pivotal moment at the Africa Climate Summit 2023, the conversation shifted to green data centres. A panel discussion on Green Data centres...
Geothermal Powered Ecocloud Data Centre Launched in Olkaria
Today KenGen and Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) joined forces with local investors in breaking ground for an Ecocloud Data Centre at the KenGen...
Interconnection Provider Teraco To Set Up New 30MW Data Centre
Data centre and interconnection provider Teraco has revealed that construction has commenced on a new data centre facility with 30 megawatts (MW) of critical power...
Safaricom is Building a $100 Million Data Centre in Ethiopia
Safaricom operations in Ethiopia have since started following years of lobbying and waiting for approvals from various state agencies in the country.
It makes sense...
Phase II of Konza Data Centre Nears Completion, Will Be East Africa’s Largest Facility
Konza City is far from taking off, but the ultramodern city is taking key steps towards achieving its goals, although we are not certain...
Data Centre Firm iColo Announces Nairobi Internet Exchange Point Under Asteroid Administration
Data Centre firm iColo and global interconnection platform innovator Asteroid have extended their partnership in a new development that will see the latter expand...
iColo Kicks Off Construction of Third Data Centre in Kenya
Data centre firm iColo has announced that it has started constructing its third data centre in Kenya.
Located in Nyali, Mombasa, the infrastructure is named...
Data Centre Firm icolo.io Launches Hybrid Solar Power System for Nairobi and Mombasa Stations
Solar Power and Data Centres – Are They Practical?
Renewable energy has been catching up over the last couple of years. It is a hot...
Microsoft’s First Africa Data Centres Are Live in South Africa
Exactly one year ago today, Microsoft staged a local meet with media reps to discuss the importance of cloud services for local businesses. At...
Telkom Kenya Launches Nairobi Data Centre with Three Diverse Fibre Routes
At the moment, one cannot fail to see the competition staged by local tech corporations that cut through a number of frontiers. Both commercial...
icolo.io Opens Mombasa One (‘MB1’) Data Centre, Plans to Launch a Nairobi Subsidiary in November 2018
It is an open secret that technology grows at an alarming rate and in a world where several business functions leverage its offerings in...
East Africa Data Centre (EADC) Wins Tier III Certification from Uptime Institute
Liquid Telecom’s subsidiary, East Africa Data Centre (EADC) has received Tier III Certification, thanks to its efforts in delivering 100% uptime in IT and...
A Cloud Server vs Data Centre Servers
Getting online is one of the fastest ways of reaching the masses and growing one’s business. This necessitates the need for having dedicated or...
SaaS: Rent Software or Own?
Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors offer common software over the internet for use in your own office. Web-based applications such as Hotmail are...
Types of Cloud Storage As a Service (SaaS)
Ask any a CIO to explain SaaS today and he or she will have a lot in mind to talk about. What if you...
What is your cloud provider transparency?
There are some components that make the cloud. They include SaaS, AaS PaS, Storage As a service and these days I here unconfirmed forgotten...
Windows Server 8 beta released on Leap Day
Microsoft made the most of this year’s “extra day,” releasing the long-awaited beta of Windows Server 8 on Leap Day. The company also made the...
Occupy HTML Movement pleading to its users
This could be the Web uprising that may define the future web standards. After the creation of the Occupy Flash, here come ups the...
Corporate Smartphone device management
Corporate IT device management isn’t what it used to be.
Desktops and laptops aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but they are no longer the only...
KDN Data Centre now complete and open
Kenya Data Networks has announced the opening of the Data Centre to be used for hosting data and software applications. KDN targets corporate clients...
Cloud based data backup recovery best practice 1
Hoping you have done your homework in interest to my previous article on cloud based data backup recovery. Which process can you use to...
Cloud-Based data back up Recovery
There may be no market paradigm more prominent in today’s IT community than cloud computing. IT executives polled by Gartner Inc a US Based...
How Social Networking is affecting storage
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the use of social networking technologies, from Facebook and Twitter to blogs and wikis....
Ringing the changes within the data centre
While businesses need to tackle issues such as compliance, growing levels of competition, reducing costs and improving agility, IT demands are escalating with the...
Why you should use Green IT, green is clean
Opinion Article By Neil Rasmussen, senior vice president: APC by Schneider Electric
As an increasing number of companies make reducing carbon emissions a key part...
