September 1, 2023
Keeping Up With the Pace of Innovation in West Africa
In recent years, West Africa has emerged as one of the world’s biggest digital success stories. For instance, Nigeria met a key digital maturity milestone in 2020, when the Internet Society confirmed that about 70% of the country’s traffic was exchanged locally rather than in…
September 1, 2023
4 Ways Equinix Is Helping Communities and the Environment
Organizations throughout the world now see their sustainability strategy and practices as critical factors in the longevity of their business, and for good reason. These organizations face pressure from customers and regulators alike to make progress toward their sustainability…
July 28, 2023
The Future of Digital Infrastructure
In an era where digitalization is reshaping industries, the future of digital infrastructure holds immense potential for businesses seeking to thrive in the digital age. At the celebration of Equinix at 25, the company shared her vision for the next 25 years about the future of…
July 28, 2023
What are Modular Data Centers and How Can They Help?
Modular data centers are a type of data center that is built in modules. These modules can be stacked together to create a larger data center, or they can be used to create smaller data centers that can be deployed quickly and easily. Modular data centers offer a number of…
June 2, 2023
How Financial Service Providers Can Modernize Their Data Strategies
To remain competitive, financial services providers are undergoing a significant digital transformation. Recently, we have witnessed a growing trend among financial institutions and payment companies, who are adopting hybrid multi-cloud architectures as part of their digital…
May 12, 2023
Knowing your Business Interconnection Bandwidth
As businesses continue to rely more heavily on digital infrastructure and cloud-based services, understanding the bandwidth needs of your business's interconnection has become important. Interconnection bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transferred between your…
April 14, 2023
What Businesses need to know about Interconnection
You probably have heard the term, Interconnection used severally, but what does it mean for your business to be interconnected to a global ecosystem? Let’s find out. Interconnection is the private exchange of data between businesses. More specifically, it is the deployment of IT…
March 17, 2023
Best Practices for Data Center Risk Mitigation in 2023
With the increasing rate of cyberattacks, many IT executives and Data Center operators spend a significant amount of time and money trying to mitigate risks and stay secure. While cybersecurity is crucial, it is equally expedient not to ignore the dangers posed by your data…
February 23, 2023
Why Africa Should Be Part of Your Digital Infrastructure Strategy in 2023
Digital transformation is increasing in Africa at an ever-accelerating rate. There are specific challenges and opportunities that are entirely unique to the continent. One example is the digital divide in Africa, a gap that both African and multinational tech companies are…
February 17, 2023
4 Future-Proofing Priorities for EMEA Businesses in 2023
Research from the Equinix Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS) shows that 81% of EMEA IT leaders see future-proofing their business as a top priority for their technology strategy, but the question remains - how future ready is your business considering the imminent economical…
December 20, 2022
7 Things You Need to Know When Choosing a Data Center Partner
There are already over 7,000 providers of data centres across the globe. It is difficult to make an accurate comparison between these businesses because many of them, including some of the top players, concentrate on diverse market strategies, such as hyperscale, wholesale,…
December 8, 2022
The Future of Banking Will be Open and Interconnected
The banking industry as a whole is undergoing a digital transformation, challenging the supremacy of established banks that have been at the heart of the global financial system for decades. To stay relevant, those established banks must start thinking and acting more like…
November 8, 2022
What Companies Need to Know About Interconnection to Succeed in Digital Business
Interconnection is the deployment of IT traffic exchange points that integrate direct, private connections between counterparties. In an age when reams of information race around the world with the click of a finger and massive transactions routinely occur several times faster…
September 7, 2022
What is DCIM?
In recent decades, demands for scalability, performance, security, and operations have compelled IT to make frequent modifications to the underlying infrastructure. As technology evolves to meet the expanding demands of the modern enterprise, new hardware progressively replaces…
July 21, 2022
State of African Data Centre Market 2021
The Africa Data Centres Association is honoured and delighted to produce the “State of the African Data Centre Market 2021” report, following the first edition's success in 2020. This report underscores the crucial role of private investment in data centre infrastructure…
July 21, 2022
Common Cloud Management Challenges and How to Fix Them
Cloud infrastructure management is key to driving organisations’ goals and this explains the increasing quest to secure complete control of organisations’ cloud environment. Organizations leverage cloud computing services ultimately for the value of cost-efficiency and to save…
July 20, 2022
Understanding Compliance Standards for Data Centers
Data compliance and regulation should be viewed as standards that establish best practices for handling, storing, and securing data. Yes, there may be consequences for noncompliance or failure to satisfy the specified requirements, but even without those consequences, all…
April 26, 2022
The Cost Benefits of Cloud Utilization
The introduction of technological solutions like cloud services enables businesses to stay efficient and effective whilst cutting down operational costs to improve productivity and increase profitability. Since the cloud computing concept was introduced and technically launched…
March 23, 2022
Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Computing
Despite being introduced several years ago, Cloud Computing or Cloud Technology has continued to be the buzzword among IT experts and businesses. Though invented way back in 1996, Cloud Computing just started to gain attention in recent years. 2012 was the time when Cloud…
March 7, 2022
Understanding the Business Benefits of Data Center Outsourcing
As more companies become digital and shift from individual servers to networked systems, numerous businesses are realizing that the benefits of running server rooms in-house are being outweighed by the advantages of an outsourced solution. Many companies are yet to realize the…
March 7, 2022
Cloud Computing: Saving Money For African Businesses
Given the current pandemic across the globe, internet use and technology in Africa is unsurprisingly on the rise. Fortunately, within the past decade, there’s been a ‘boom’ in technological infrastructure and its use by both businesses and their patrons. Cloud computing remains…
February 21, 2022
The Financial Benefits of Data Center Outsourcing
The increased adoption of digital services fueled by the proliferation of smart devices, remote work and increased cloud computing is making it compelling for enterprises across the globe to invest in larger data applications and servers. Where to host these applications is…
February 4, 2022
Benefits of Data Colocation
Colocation is the act of renting out rack spaces to house servers and other IT hardware within a data center owned by a third party. Typically, a data center facility provides the building/space, power distribution, cooling, internet connectivity, cabling, fire suppression and…
January 20, 2022
Understanding Data Center Costs Breakdown – A Look at the Pricing Models
To avoid the expense of owning and operating their own data centers, many enterprises outsource the management of their IT infrastructure to third party data center service providers whose services entails the day-to-day provisioning and management of servers or hosting…
November 20, 2021
How MDXi Became the Most Environmental-friendly Data Center in Nigeria – Gbenga Adegbiji
Gbenga Adegbiji, the Chief Operating Officer at MDXi, West Africa's leading data center company has reavealed how MDXi became the most environmental friendly data center in Nigeria. In an interview with TechEconomy.NG, Adegbiji spoke candidly about MDXi's vast impact on Digital…