Africa Data Centres is acquiring Standard Bank’s giant data centre facility in Samrand, north of Johannesburg, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is subject to the approval of the competition authorities.
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When Google published revenue from its cloud business for the first time last month, a feeling of bitter vindication swept through IBM.
Teraco will complete work on the first phase of a massive new expansion to its data centre campus in Isando, east of Johannesburg, by the middle of the year and is looking to complete a second phase by year-end.
A US federal judge temporarily blocked Microsoft from working on a $10-billion Pentagon cloud computing contract after Amazon.com asked for the delay, a surprise win for the company.
Amazon.com wants to depose US President Donald Trump over the technology company’s losing bid for a US$10-billion military contract. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October.
In July 2017, IBM executive Arvind Krishna walked into a routine meeting with senior leaders and delivered a surprise pitch that changed the course of the iconic 108-year-old company’s future.
Right now, data centres consume about 2% of the world’s electricity, but that’s expected to reach 8% by 2030. Moreover, only about 6% of all data ever created is in use today, according to research from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Intel gave bullish quarterly and full-year revenue forecasts, driven by a surge in demand for chips that power large cloud computing centres. The shares jumped as much as 7.8% in late trading.
Data centre operator Teraco said on Wednesday that it is now offering VMware Cloud services from its facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The US software maker is pledging to be “carbon negative”, meaning it will remove more carbon than it emits, by the end of the decade.