data centres

  1. Luis

    Amazon looking for data centre engineers in South Africa

    Amazon looking for data centre engineers in South Africa Amazon currently has 40 permanent job openings in South Africa, predominantly in software development, operations, IT, and support engineering for its cloud business, Amazon Web Services. The US tech giant has retrenched over 30,000...
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  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA

    Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA American data storage firm Seagate aims to be the market leader in supplying memory to South Africa's booming data centre industry, expected to be valued at R16.15 billion by 2031. The company is focusing on providing HDD technologies to boost...
  4. Luis

    Power-hungry enterprise hardware holding South African businesses back

    Power-hungry enterprise hardware holding South African businesses back Many South African businesses are still running critical workloads on outdated, power-hungry hardware that struggles to support modern applications and lacks protection against firmware-level threats. This is according to...
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  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    New Microsoft solution could save data centres millions in electricity spending

    New Microsoft solution could save data centres millions in electricity spending A new innovation at Microsoft is expected to save data centres worldwide millions in electricity bills, researchers from the tech giant have said. Microsoft Research Lab developed a method to rapidly transmit...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Three Amazon data centres damaged in Middle East drone strikes

    Three Amazon data centres damaged in Middle East drone strikes Amazon’s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centres in the Middle East in recent days. Amazon Web Services said for the first time that drones had...
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    Amazon data centre in UAE struck by "objects"

    Amazon data centre in UAE struck by "objects" Amazon Web Services suffered a disruption to its services after unidentified objects struck one of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates, causing a fire. While it is unclear if the incident is related to the conflict between the US and Iran...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    NTT Data selling 7 data centres

    NTT Data selling 7 data centres The Competition Commission has conditionally approved Mauritius-based Open Access Data Centres (OADC) buying seven data centres from NTT Data in South Africa. The commission's view is that the proposed transaction was unlikely to substantially lessen or prevent...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    AMD share price rallies after OpenAI deal announcement

    AMD share price rallies after OpenAI deal announcement Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) landed a blockbuster deal with OpenAI to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, giving the chipmaker a chance to show it can mount a challenge to Nvidia in the AI computing industry. AMD shares soared...
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    Google rolling out four new infrastructure hubs in Africa

    Google rolling out four new infrastructure hubs in Africa Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning four new infrastructure hubs in Africa to connect its latest underwater fibre-optic cables for the continent, the company’s Africa managing director Alex Okosi said in an interview with Bloomberg TV...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    MTN planning big cloud data centre expansion

    MTN planning big cloud data centre expansion Africa’s largest wireless carrier, MTN, is in talks with US and European firms to build out data centres on the continent to power artificial intelligence services, said chief executive officer Ralph Mupita in an interview. The Johannesburg-based...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africa's oldest Internet exchange getting a big upgrade

    South Africa's oldest Internet exchange getting a big upgrade INX-ZA, the Internet Exchange Point division of the Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA), has selected Nokia to modernise its exchange infrastructure. It will deploy Nokia’s high-performance IP routing portfolio to offer new...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
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    Microsoft splurging $80 billion on data centres this year

    Microsoft splurging $80 billion on data centres this year Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion (R1.5 trillion) this fiscal year building out data centres, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence. More than half of this projected spending through June 2025 will...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    SA data centres must reduce Eskom reliance — Communications department

    SA data centres must reduce Eskom reliance — Communications department South Africa's Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) wants data centre providers to reduce their dependency on the national power grid. This was revealed in its National Policy on Cloud and Data...
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  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Leading cloud providers in South Africa

    Leading cloud providers in South Africa MyBroadband’s business IT decision-maker survey revealed that Google is the preferred cloud provider in South Africa. The survey further showed that Teraco tops the data centre list, and Afrihost reigns supreme in the hosting sector.
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    Challenges for data centres in South Africa

    Challenges for data centres in South Africa The South African data centre market is growing, with the country home to approximately 60% of the installed data centre capacity on the continent. However, growth rates are reducing, and data centre companies face a challenging environment to keep...
  17. Jan

    Teraco finishes first phase of new hyperscale data centre

    Teraco finishes first phase of new hyperscale data centre South Africa's biggest data centre provider Teraco has completed the first phase of its new hyperscale data centre dubbed JB4 at its Bredell Campus in Ekurhuleni, the company announced in a statement on Wednesday. Teraco said the new...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Three critically injured after electrical incident at Google data centre

    Three critically injured after electrical incident at Google data centre Alphabet Inc.’s Google search and website temporarily stopped working for some users, setting off confusion and a torrent of memes about what to do without the world’s most popular online engine. User reports of issues...
  19. Jan

    OADC announces 9 new edge data centres in South African towns

    These towns and small cities are getting edge data centres Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the deployment of nine new edge data centres in South Africa. The 0.5MW data centres offer colocation, rooftop access, and high-speed network interconnectivity between facilities at up to...
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  20. Jan

    Oracle confirms launch date for Johannesburg cloud region

    Oracle Cloud launch date for South African region announced Cloud services provider Oracle has opened up its new Johannesburg region for registration and confirmed that it will go live on 19 January 2022. Several MyBroadband forum members who are existing Oracle customers discovered that the...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    Nvidia data centre growth boosts forecast

    Nvidia data centre growth boosts forecast Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker by market value, jumped in late trading after an expansion into data-center semiconductors helped bolster its sales forecast. Revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter will be about $7.4 billion, the company said...
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