Intelligent Data Centres

Driving Digital Transformation in Africa through data centres

Demand for data centre services in Africa is on the rise, driven by improving connectivity levels and rising data traffic volumes amongst its large ‘digital native’ market. Robert Mullins, Executive Director of First Brick Holdings, tells us how this rise in data centre developments is providing...

Scale Computing expert on VDI and Edge Computing as the IT dream team

Alan Conboy, Office of the CTO at Scale Computing, discusses why Edge Computing and VDI have emerged as a perfect pairing, and what this could mean for businesses. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has peaked and troughed in popularity since it came into existence in 2006. But it is a...

AMD announces launch of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors

AMD has introduced its 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family of processors that deliver across a broad number of enterprise, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors feature up to 64 “Zen 2” cores in leading-edge 7nm process technology to deliver record-setting...

Opportunities abound in South African cloud market

The recent launch of multinational data centres in South Africa and the pipeline of new ones arriving in the next few years will fundamentally change the cloud market in the country. Ralph Berndt, Sales and Marketing Director at Syrex, believes organisations who have been previously undecided...