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Rack Centre, which claims to be the only carrier neutral Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data centre in Africa, has officially launched its second facility in Lagos Nigeria.

Energy management provider Schneider Electric has partnered with data centres conglomerate Digital Realty to launch its new HER1 data centre in Heraklion, Crete.

Australian listed property giant Goodman Group has completed a fully underwritten ‘pro-rata’ institutional shares placement, raising approximately A$4.0 billion, which the company says will be used to drive its data centres business.

Data centres provider Digital Realty has partnered with fibre optic network infrastructure owner EXA to activate a point of presence (PoP) in Crete to make the Greek island a major connectivity hub.

South Korean telecoms provider SK Telecom (SKT) has launched an on-demand AI cloud service called SKT GPUaaS at its AI Data Center (AIDC) in Seoul.

Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia and Saudi telco STC have concluded what they say is the first-ever 1Tbps long haul field trial in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, using Nokia's Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s) technology .

UK telecoms provider BT has agreed to sell its datacentre business in Ireland to global digital infrastructure provider Equinix in a deal worth US$61 million.

Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia has won a five-year expansion of its existing multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft Azure with data centre routers and switches.

The global data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions market size is estimated to grow by US$13.72 billion from 2024-2028, according to analyst group Technavio.

Car maker Toyota and Japanese telco NTT have agreed to a multi-billion dollar joint initiative in the field of mobility and AI telecommunications that aims to achieve a society with zero traffic accidents.

Communications vendor Cisco has announced new additions to its data centre infrastructure portfolio, including an AI server family with NVIDIA GPUs, and AI PODs plug-and-play systems to simplify AI deployment.

Digital infrastructure asset management group DigitalBridge has inked an agreement to acquire Yondr Group, a global developer and operator of hyperscale data centres, through one of its managed investment funds.

Finnish telecoms equipment vendor Nokia and Chinese PC maker Lenovo have partnered to develop AI/ML data centre solutions for compute-intensive workloads.

 The Vertiv™ EnerSav offering identifies areas for energy saving improvements without the need for a major infrastructure overhaul

COMPANY NEWS: Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today unveiled the Vertiv™ EnerSav, a data center optimisation service that helps operators identify cost saving opportunities within their critical facilities by reducing energy consumption without the need for a major infrastructure overhaul. The service is available throughout Asia, including Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

 The Vertiv™ EnerSav offering identifies areas for energy saving improvements without the need for a major infrastructure overhaul

COMPANY NEWS: Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today unveiled the Vertiv™ EnerSav, a data center optimisation service that helps operators identify cost saving opportunities within their critical facilities by reducing energy consumption without the need for a major infrastructure overhaul. The service is available throughout Asia, including Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

GUEST OPINION Data centres play a critical role in keeping the global economy productive. Demand for data storage and processing has become insatiable worldwide, which makes it more challenging than ever to operate and scale these facilities efficiently. Managers also face mounting pressure to make their operations more energy efficient. Data centres consume about three per cent of the world’s electricity – more than most countries – and produce two per cent of global carbon emissions – about the same as the entire airline industry.

GUEST OPINION: Back in the early years of the twenty-first century, the role of IT teams was very different from what it is today.

Attributed to John Atherton, General Manager Power Quality at Eaton

Australia’s appetite for online content is growing rapidly. According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Australians downloaded more than 3.1 million terabytes of data in June 2017 quarter – a 43 per cent increase on the previous year.

Firmware and hardware security firm Eclypsium (recently funded by Andreessen Horowitz and others) has released new findings, demonstrating that BMC (baseboard management controllers) vulnerabilities can actually be exploited to "brick" servers, rendering entire data centres and cloud applications completely useless.

Fujitsu’s Noble Park Data Centre in Melbourne has achieved a NABERS Energy for data centres rating, which it says makes it the first in Australia to be certified using the National Australian Built Environment Rating System data centres tools.