The data explosion sparked by the advancement of digitization in Senegal has made broadband and cloud services a necessity. Large technology groups see business opportunities there. Tough competition is brewing in the data center segment. The company N + ONE Datacenters, specializing in the provision of cloud services, data hosting and outsourcing of information systems, announced on...
Africa Data Centres, the pan-African network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral datacentres and part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has confirmed a significant investment into the construction of a new 10MW datacentre facility in Lagos, Nigeria. In May 2020 Strive Masiyiwa, Executive Chairman of the Liquid Telecom Group, said plans were “at an advanced stage” to enter...
In Africa, the need for data storage and processing services has grown significantly in 2020. Kenya is one of the markets where dynamism will strengthen by 2025. IXAfrica says it is investing in support the country’s technology industry. The builder and operator of data centers IXAfrica announced Monday, March 29, the start of construction work...
The Raxio Group and the asset and fund manager Meridiam have announced a partnership to deploy a network of data centres in Africa. Meridiam will invest USD 48 million in the deployment of data centres in Africa, where both Raxio and Meridiam already have a presence. Meridiam’s investment is made alongside Raxio’s founding equity partner, Roha Group,...
Redfox Solutions Group launched today a project to build Ethiopia’s first private Data Center in Addis Ababa that will go operational in September 2021. The Data Center is believed to expedite efforts being underway to build digital economy in the country. It is also expected to help modernize the overall economy including the agriculture and...
Pan African technology and internet group, Liquid has laid out of 5000Km of digital fibre in the Democratic Republic of Congo and plans to establish a large datacentre in Nigeria in the next few months. Executives from the company said the DRC digital fibre will be launched tomorrow and cements the company’s transition into a...
The Raxio Group (“Raxio”), a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, held a ceremony to formally kick-off the construction of the country’s first private Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre at the ICT Park in Addis Abeba. The event was attended by members of the media, officials from the Industrial Parks Development Corporation,...
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, together with the management team of the new Onix Data Centres Limited (Onix DC) platform, have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana) Ltd, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks),...
Zimbabwe is set to migrate data within government departments to the converged National Data Centre launched in Harare on Wednesday, as part of the country’s ongoing e-government project. With most official departments processing data manually, the datacentre will help President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to digitise operations. Mnangagwa said, “The need to continuously adopt systems that...
Pan-African technology firm ST Digital has established a Tier III datacentre in Douala, Cameroon, operational since end January 2021. The company, a Microsoft Cloud Solution provider with operations in Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon and Togo, says the new datacentre is the first Tier III resource in Central Africa to be owned by an independent player...
