Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by global outage
by Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring the services …
Huawei to Build 100MW Solar-Powered Data Centre in MEA
Moro Hub, or Data Hub Integrated Solutions — a subsidiary of Digital Dewa, the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has signed an agreement …
AWS to open 3 datacenters in UAE
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced that it plans to open an infrastructure region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first half of 2022. The new AWS Middle …
EPI Data Centre Competence Framework (EPI-DCCF) Free Download
The EPI Data Centre Competence Framework© (EPI-DCCF©) provides a reference of 40 competences as required and applied at the data centre workplace, using a common language …
New Equinix ML5 Data Centre Awarded the TIA-942 Rated 4 Design Certification by EPI
Certification Body, EPI, announced that Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, has achieved the ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 Design certification for the first phase of its recently announced …
Telecom Egypt is building country’s largest colocation data center in Egypt
Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, announces that it is building Egypt’s largest …
Ripple20: Security vulnerabilities revealed exposing datacenters & IOT devices to attacks
The JSOF research lab has discovered a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in a widely used low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck, Inc. The 19 …
(2Africa) Telecom giants are partnering to build one of the longest sub-sea cables in the world
(May 14th, 2020) – China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Telecom Egypt, Orange, stc, Vodafone and WIOCC announced today that they will partner to build …
The importance of pressure control in cold aisle containment (CAC)
A cold aisle containment system (CAC) encloses the cold aisle, allowing the rest of the data center to become a large hot-air return plenum. Why cold aisle containment ? Below thermal image …
DC Heidi And EPI Sign Partnership To Provide The Global Benchmark, ANSI/TIA-942, Design And Audit Certification Services To Australia Data Centres
Sydney (11 May 2020) – DC Heidi and EPI have teamed up to offer ANSI/TIA-942 design, audit and certification services to Australian data centres. Australia …