Issue 13, Dec 10/Jan 11
FOCUS NEWS MEA
SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNET PROVIDER BUYS DATA CENTER
South African internet service provider RSAWEB has bought its second data center facility, which will come online in December this year, allowing it to take advantage of cloud hosting models.
RSAWEB’s data center in Cape Town will provide dual redundancy and, like its first data center in South Africa, will be directly connected to fiber links, including Telkom, Neotel and RSAWEB’s own fiber network. Both DCs operate on separate Eskom power grids connected via separate Telkom exchanges.
ANGOLA
Angola and Luxembourg have said they will be looking at ways in which to work together for satellite
and data center
management as Angola kicks off its first data center build and plans its second one in the Camama outskirts, Luanda.
Pedro Teta, Angola Deputy Telecommunications Minister, and Jeannot Krecké, Minister of the Economy and External Trade of Luxembourg, said Luxembourg could help Angola with training.
According to RSAWEB managing director Rob Gilmour, demand for cloud services has been growing in South Africa, along with technological innovation, shown by a growth in the number of startups.
“South African businesses are starting to take note of the advantages of cloud hosting as opposed to traditional hosting models such as in-sourced data centers and dedicated servers,” Gilmour said.
Gilmour said RSAWEB is looking to expand
The western European country has 40 satellites and 16 data centers.
KENYA/TANZANIA A delegation
from Korea’s
Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency assess
(KOTRA) will
Africa’s readiness for e-government, which includes looking at data center solutions.
According to Korean TV station Arirang, the team will embark on a market survey, looking first at software systems by
End solutions will likely focus on integrated data center offerings, as well as e-trading, e-office systems and authentication.
DUBAI
APC by Schneider Electric has set up a new free-zone company that will carry out work in the Middle East and Africa for the data center sector, from Jebel Ali, Dubai.
RSAWEB has bought a new data center in Cape Town
further, and is currently looking for suitable data center acquisitions in Johannesburg.
bringing together vendors and government officials from Kenya and Tanzania to examine various e-models.
Schneider Electric DC MEA FZCO will allow for seamless transactions between channel partners, according to APC by Schneider Electric VP for MEA Christian Bertrand.
“EMEA is one of the emerging markets in the world economy, and this gives us the opportunity to be close to our customers in the region,” Bertrand said.
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