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Teraco aims for 50-megawatt data centre offering in South Africa

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Africa’s largest colocation data centre provider, Teraco Data Environments, has kicked off construction on a new data centre in River Fields Bredell, 20km north of the current Isando campus. While Teraco finalises the expansion of its Isando campus to 20 megawatts, it has commenced with the new 24 megawatt Bredell build.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Infrastructure Platform

Missguided is a ‘rapid fashion’ multi-channel brand, aimed at the 16-25 female market. Started from scratch in 2008 by Nitin Passi, who still owns 100 per cent of the business, it now has turnover in the hundreds of millions. It has enjoyed rapid growth in the UK and has subsequently expanded its operations into Australia, France, USA, Germany, and Spain. The company’s long-term mission is to transform the successful medium-sized business into a global fashion brand.

Published in Cloud + MS Software Defined DC & Storage Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Nutanix has achieved SAP certification for SAP® Business Suite powered by SAP NetWeaver® on Linux on the company’s Enterprise Cloud Platform with AHV virtualisation. Nutanix customers can now simplify their complete infrastructure and virtualisation stack when delivering business-critical SAP applications on the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

Published in BC/DR Cloud + MS Storage Storage + Servers

Initiating a ‘cloud-first’ strategy, UK public sector housing association simplifies testing, improves reliability and drastically reduces recovery times using iland DRaaS.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Energy Management Infrastructure Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Platform Power & Cooling Security Storage

In the unveiling of the sixth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020. This rapid growth of cloud traffic is attributed to increased migration to cloud architectures due to their ability to scale quickly and efficiently support more workloads than traditional data centers.