Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

IXcellerate expanding in Moscow; IXAfrica coming to Kenya

January 19, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Guy Willner went on record with details of a new venture in Kenya and expansion plans for IXcellerat...

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Bespin Global working with Google Cloud, Datadog in MEA

January 7, 2021
Philbert Shih

Bespin Global, a South Korean MSP and managed third party cloud provider, expanded into MEA this yea...

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NAPAfrica launches Microsoft Azure Peering Service

November 4, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest internet exchange, is now offering direct access to Microsoft Azure Pe...

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Liquid Telecom raises funds to expand Africa Data Centres

November 4, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Liquid Telecom raised $307m in a rights issue to expand its Africa Data Centres business. ...

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21CTL begins new hyperscale, edge data centres in Nigeria

October 23, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Nigerian telco 21st Century Technologies Limited (21CTL) broke ground on a new 36MW data centre in t...

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Rack Centre increasing data centre capacity in Nigeria; first step in pan-African data centre network

October 21, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Rack Centre will increase the capacity of its data centre in Lagos, Nigeria. ...

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Facebook partners with local telcos for new Africa subsea cable

June 11, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Facebook is investing in the new 2Africa submarine cable that will circle the continent to connect 2...

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Zenlayer expands infrastructure footprint; adds Zoom connections

May 14, 2020
Jabez Tan

Zenlayer shared in a recent update that is now offering direct connections to video conferencing pla...

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Actis buys Nigeria’s Rack Centre; plans pan-African data centre network

April 9, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

London-based emerging markets investor Actis took a controlling stake in Rack Centre. ...

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Rackspace setting up shop in Dubai; get on ground in MEA

March 4, 2020
Philbert Shih

Rackspace confirmed in media reports that it has set up operations in Dubai. ...

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Interxion to take majority control of Kenya’s Icolo; partners with local fund for expansion into Africa

January 3, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Interxion is taking up its option to convert its loan to Kenya’s Icolo into equity. ...

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Leadership transition at South Africa’s Teraco

December 13, 2019
Sacha Kavanagh

Teraco co-founder Lex van Wyk will step down from his role as CEO on January 1, 2o20. ...

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