Africa Data Centres Announced as Latest Partner for LINX Nairobi – The Interconnection Hub for East Africa
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies group, is pleased to announce that the London Internet Exchange (LINX) has brought them on board as a full point of presence (PoP) for the new East African interconnection hub, LINX Nairobi. The announcement follows news of a strategic partnership last month between the two organisations, to […]
Africa Data Centres breaks ground on new Sameer facility in Nairobi
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce it has officially broken ground on an additional data centre facility in Nairobi. The new build will see the existing facility on the adjacent piece of land expanded up to an extra 15MW of IT load. ADC’s expansion at […]
Africa Data Centres to expand Sameer facility in Nairobi by 15MW of IT load
Africa Data Centres is expanding its Sameer facility in Nairobi by up to 15MW of IT load.The facility will be built in the company’s leading-edge modular design. Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce it has secured a piece of land adjacent to its existing data […]
Africa Data Centres to become the first East African, EDGE® certified facility
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce that it is adding 1MW of capacity to its Data Centre facility in Nairobi, Kenya. The build began in mid-June, it will take an estimated 40 weeks to complete and will be the first EDGE® certified data centre in […]
Africa Data Centres announces two further facilities in Nairobi
Africa Data Centres, the continent’s leading carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, is strongly expanding in Nairobi. The company has begun the development of a second data centre of up to 20MW of IT load and is securing land for a third facility. This $200+M investment will double the country’s data centre capacity and serve the […]
Africa Data Centres’ Kenya facility awarded global environmental and safety certifications
Part of the largest, interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre network on the continent, Africa Data Centres’ facility in Kenya is the first in the region to receive both ISO14001 and ISO45001 certifications. Kenya’s leading data centre, operated in Nairobi by Africa Data Centres, has become the first in the region to obtain ISO14001 and […]
Africa’s cloud boom is driving data centre demand
By Dan Kwach, Managing Director of Africa Data Centres East Africa Region. Africa, while enjoying rapid progress in areas like urbanisation and social transformation, has been slow in digitising – which has had deep economic and societal consequences for the continent. Africa’s lagging digitisation can largely be attributed to the continent’s lack of resources – […]
Africa Data Centres Tier III Certification Renewed
Africa Data Centres, Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities, has had its Tier III certification renewed by the Uptime Institute for its Nairobi-based data centre. The certification was renewed in recognition of the facility’s design, which supports “any planned work on the site infrastructure without disrupting operations”. Tier III Concurrently […]
Africa Data Centres readies for growth in East Africa
Africa Data Centres announces the appointment of Vimal Sharma as Africa Data Centres’ new General Manager: Sales for the Eastern Africa region. In his role, Sharma will be tasked with driving a high-performance culture and maintaining top service levels for the organisation’s key customers and stakeholders. Before joining Africa Data Centres, Sharma was the Head […]
Africa Data Centres becomes the first neutral data centre in Nairobi to be PCI DSS compliant
Africa Data Centres Nairobi (formally known as East Africa Data Centre) is pleased to announce that we are officially Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. We are now the first neutral data centre to be certified PCI DSS in Nairobi, and this, together with Uptime Institute Tier III and ISO 27001 certification, […]
