Companies are aggressively increasing investments in data centre infrastructure in anticipation of increased demand in cloud and hosted services, say analysts.

The company starts the construction of a new hyperscale data centre, with 38MW of critical power load, in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.

The company is delaying the launch of its data centre in South Africa because of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Once the biggest perceived disadvantages are considered and negated, there is no denying that cloud computing is the way of the future.

The data centre design is based on tier three standards, will be constructed in two phases, and will deliver a total of 6 000sqm of IT space and 12MW of IT load.

The systems integrator, in partnership with its parent company NTT, is set to open data centres in Johannesburg.

Keeping servers cool enough to handle heavy modern workloads requires out-of-the-box thinking.

As competition in SA’s telecoms space heats up, Telkom believes its data centre infrastructure will give the company an edge.

US-based tech giant Amazon Web Services has announced the opening of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region.

Today, the discussion around cloud and data centre strategy is tailored around automation, says Robert Graham, technical team lead at open source technology and services provider Obsidian Systems.

Insurers that have been unable or unwilling to make the move to the cloud will struggle to effectively do business during the lockdown, says Lee Kuyper, COO at SilverBridge.

The company opens applications for local SMEs to apply for its multimillion-rand equity equivalent investment programme.