Google expands flood alerts to eight African countries
The new countries added are Burundi, Eswatini, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal, and Zimbabwe.
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Google prepares to mark Africa day
The company is planning multiple programmes that it hopes will provide the world a glimpse of Africa’s mixed cultural heritage.
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Liquid Dataport connects Mombasa to Johannesburg
The new route offers hyper scalers, enterprises, and wholesale carriers direct connectivity to data centres and cloud resources in Johannesburg and Nairobi.
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Seacom goes live on Equiano cable, connects SA to Portugal
The subsea cable is expected to be a massive job creation machine, driven by the expansion of the digital economy and peripheral sectors.
2:40
Africa Data Centres to power facilities in SA with solar energy
DPA SA will supply 12MW of renewable solar energy to ADC facilities, partly from the solar farm it is developing near Bloemfontein.
2:20
MTN GlobalConnect accelerates fibre, mobility services push
MTN GC rolled out 5 157km of new fibre in 2022, bringing its total inventory of proprietary fibre to over 105 157km as at 31 December 2022.
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New demands for data centres in Africa, Teraco, ADC respond
Companies are being urged to take a ‘holistic view’ of the energy consumed by data centres, and ‘how to get a grip on it’.
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Google is looking for black-owned start-ups to support
Upon selection, the startups will receive up to $150,000 equity-free cash awards and up to $200,000 per startup in Google Cloud credits.
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Nairobi now firmly on the digital map
County receives physical address and street naming system and is working closely with Google.
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Hyperscale investment signals golden opportunity for Africa to bolster local datacentre market
Fresh opportunities for cloud services on the continent as global interest grows.
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Google gets in on SA’s cloud act
Multinational tech firm confirms announced investment in Africa’s digital transformation.
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CloudSmiths DotModus merge at the right time
Both have partnership growth in mind behind newly formed customer journey powerhouse.