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Microsoft revealed that it is the first cloud provider that is exploring two-phase immersion cooling technology. The tech giant said this experiment is part of the company’s multi-pronged strategy to make datacentres more sustainable and efficient to build, operate and maintain. The liquid cooling project is similar to Microsoft’s Project Natick, which is exploring the potential of underwater datacenters that are quick to deploy and can operate for years on the seabed sealed inside submarine-like tubes without any onsite maintenance by people. Instead of an engineered fluid, the underwater datacentres is filled with dry nitrogen air. The servers are cooled with…
Rectron, one of South Africa’s leading distributors of IT products, continues to strengthen its enterprise offering with the addition of Newland ID, a manufacturer of barcode scanners, to its portfolio. As part of the agreement, Rectron will be distributing the full Newland ID range, comprising (wireless) handheld scanners, stationary scanners, mobile computers, tablets, micro kiosks, and OEM scan engines, as well as offering pre-sales support and first-line technical support. This includes managing all repairs and RMA-related incidents in house and with third parties where necessary. “Through Rectron, the South African market will now have full access to the Newland ID…
As healthcare organisations scrambled to cope with huge surges in patient numbers in the wake of the pandemic, the past year has seen a major step-change in the adoption of technology and digital services. But on World Health Day, any progress they have made in their digital transformation risks being washed away by the deluge of resulting data. According to research by Aruba, a HPE company, as of last year, the healthcare sector was among the furthest ahead in terms of its adoption of advanced technologies and the sense of urgency it felt around this. Around three-quarters of healthcare IT leaders had started to implement trials or applications…
Vodacom Group and Vodafone Foundation will donate R74 million to support the vaccine roll-out to vulnerable and hard to reach communities across its markets in Africa. The contribution will buy cold-chain technology and provide logistics support to help to ensure the safe delivery of COVID-19 vaccines that need to be stored at extremely cold temperatures. Separately the organisations will donate €0.8 million (R13 million) to Lesotho to purchase vaccines. The Vodacom Group and Vodafone Foundations have already contributed €10 million (R176 million) in cash and in-kind donations in response to the pandemic. “Targeted donations from Vodafone Foundation and Vodacom Group…
General Motors (GM) is building a Silverado electric pickup truck to offer customers an estimated range of more than 643 kilometres on a full charge. The company said in a statement it plans to deliver more than 1 million electric vehicles globally by 2025. The Chevrolet Silverado electric full-size pickup is designed from the ground up to be an EV, harnessing the best of the Ultium Platform and Silverado’s proven capability. It will be built at the company’s Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. “The vehicles coming from Factory ZERO will change the world, and how the…
South Africa’s largest landlord Growthpoint Properties has opened its first specialised surgical hospital. The hospital is known as Cintocare Private Surgical Hospital. Cintocare Hospital in the green Menlyn Main precinct is a tailor-made, high-performance clinical centre of excellence focused exclusively on head, neck, spinal and vascular surgery. Construction of the R470 million specialist surgical hospital began in July 2018 and, despite the COVID-19 lockdown, was completed on time at the end of 2020. The hospital was built by Growthpoint Healthcare, which invests exclusively in and manages healthcare property assets in South Africa, including hospitals, clinics, biotechnology facilities and laboratories. Growthpoint holds…
Africa Data Centres, Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities, has confirmed a significant investment in constructing a new data centre facility in Lagos, Nigeria. Liquid Intelligent Technologies own Africa Data Centres. Nigeria is a key African market, says Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data Centres. “This region is hungry for digitisation and to pave the way for our hyperscale customers to deploy digitisation solutions to West Africa, Africa Data Centres’ construction of a 10-megawatt data centre in Lagos is well underway. The Lagos build marks a significant step forward in its ambitious long-term strategy to…
Vodacom aims to focus on celebrating the human spirit and what it can achieve in partnership with technology. The new brand tagline, ‘Further Together’ it places the emphasis on how – through partnerships and collaboration – it is possible to connect everyone to the digital economy so that no one is left behind, says Balesh Sharma, Managing Director Vodacom South Africa. Vodacom launched “The future is exciting. Ready?” as its previous brand positioning only three-and-a-half years ago in October 2017. As the world transitions to recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vodacom is celebrating what the human spirit…
The Pegasus Vertical Business Jet (VBJ), being developed in South Africa, is entering its next phase with two quarter-scale models to be ready for testing and engineering by May 2021 and a full-scale unmanned hover model by the end of the year. This follows the successful hover demonstration of a 1/8-scale model in July last year and the registration of patent rights in South Africa, Europe, and the US. The aircraft is set to revolutionize business travel globally and free travellers from the burden of the time-consuming drive to the airport. The aircraft, that combines and enhances the characteristics of…
South Africa’s only manufacturer of mobile devices has praised the South African Government’s massive vote of confidence in its decision to recognise Mara Phones as its preferred device brand in all procurements for the next five years. In the recently awarded RT15-2021 contract for ‘the supply and delivery of mobile communication services to the state for the period 01 April 2021 to 31 March 2026’, National Treasury requires preference to be given to local mobile device manufacturers and Mara Phones has been given first preference in the published list of nominated OEMs. “All other device brands supplied by Vodacom, MTN,…