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Vertiv Issues Recommendations for Data Center Operators to Withstand Global Heat Waves
Record-breaking heat waves are making headlines and straining economies around the globe, with no signs of cooling down in the immediate future. Beyond the impact on human lives, extreme heat is taking a major toll on data center operations and infrastructure, from outages and disruptions at data centers in the United Kingdom, to reduced production at power plants in France, to concerns over water...
Vertiv Recognized for Micro Data Center Solutions in 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports
Vertiv has been recognized as a sample vendor for micro data center solutions in Gartner Hype Cycle reports for both Edge Computing and Midsize Enterprises. Each year, Gartner creates more than 90 Hype Cycles in various domains as a way for clients to track technology maturity and future potential. On the topic of micro data centers, the Gartner reports state that creating micro data centers is so...
Qatar launches first hyperscale datacentre region
The Microsoft cloud datacentre region in Qatar will drive growth and scale for the more than 100 Microsoft partners in the country, as well as global partners looking to establish themselves in the country. Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has partnered with Microsoft to launch the first hyperscale cloud datacentre region. The Microsoft cloud datacentre region i...
Scala Data Centers launches the largest vertical data center in Latin America
Scala Data Centers, a Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the hyperscale market, launches the largest vertical data center in Latin America, SGRUTB04, with a total capacity of 18MW. Located in the Tamboré Campus, the company’s complex in Greater São Paulo, Brazil, SGRUTB04 goes into service dedicated to a single hyperscale client, with a commitment to full capacity for mor...
Africa Data Centres to expand Samrand facility in Johannesburg
Africa Data Centre’s entire platform capacity is expected to exceed 100MW on completion of the Samrand Facility. Africa Data Centres has broken ground on the expansion of its Samrand facility in Johannesburg, from 10MW to 40MW of IT load. “The expansion,” says Tesh Durvasula, CEO of Africa Data Centres, “will happen in multiple phases. The construction of the first phase is starting today and will...
AWS Launches Region in the United Arab Emirates
AWS is planning to invest an estimated $5 billion (AED 20 billion) in the UAE over the next 15 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second Region in the Middle East, the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations will have even greater choice for running...
Rackspace achieves Qualified Security Assessor status for Payment Card Industry in EMEA
Rackspace Technology has announced it has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC) status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) across EMEA (referred to as Europe and CEMEA by the PCI SSC).
Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip-development platform
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its latest chip development platform, named Wujian 600. It has been created to help global developers in the design of high-performance Systems-on-Chip for edge-AI computing leveraging the RISC-V instruction-set architecture in an efficient and cost-effective way.
Commvault receives from Gartner highest product scores in datacentre, cloud, edge
Commvault has announced that Gartner has given it the highest Product Score across all three use cases in the 2022 Critical Capabilities report: Data Center Environments (4.23/5), cloud environments (4.18/5), and edge environments (4.22/5).
NTT DATA Launches Innovation Center in Six Countries
NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, has launched Innovation Center in six locations worldwide in August 2022. These local centers, situated in countries where customers have high sensitivity to the latest trend, will focus on leading-edge technologies with the potential to become mainstream within five to ten years, aiming to generate new business through joint R&D with...
Vertiv Names Cheryl Lim Chief Human Resources Officer
Vertiv has named Cheryl Lim the company’s new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Lim will report directly to CEO Rob Johnson and lead the development and execution of HR strategy in support of Vertiv’s business goals. Lim brings more than two decades of experience leading human resources teams, supporting organizational transformation, and supplying data-driven insights for global HR operations...
Arab Financial Services relocates its UAE data centre to Equinix Dubai IBX
Arab Financial Services (AFS), a digital payment solutions provider and fintech enabler in the Middle East and Africa, has relocated its UAE data center operations to Equinix Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX) facilities in Dubai, known as DX1. AFS currently has data centers in Bahrain and UAE. Through connecting to one of the prime commercial hubs for international business in the MENA r...