When you capture data at the edge, you have to be able to analyse the data whenever it is convenient, simply due to its sheer volume. Joe Speed, ADLINK field CTO peels back the layers of edge AI with Abigail Opiah, as attention begins to mount and cloud providers ready themselves for a piece of the action.

As the age of the cloud dawns in Africa, the continent is becoming the next frontier for global, regional and local operators. With data centre capacity set to bring investments in excess of US$3 billion to 2025, Melanie Mingas crunches the numbers from the top markets.

With new data centres and bespoke, industry-specific clouds, IBM Middle East and Africa is shifting its focus for the region. VP of enterprise and commercial, Hossam Seif El-Din, shares the details with Melanie Mingas

Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data Centres (ADC), has a statistic that shows the challenge faced by much of Africa and its data centre and telecoms operators. “Africa represents 15% of the world’s population and half of them are under 20 years of age,” he says. “They are extreme users of digital tools.” Alan Burkitt-Gray finds out more.

The realities of remote connectivity have placed regional providers like Rack Centre on centre stage. Business continuity, cloud services and increased capacity demands are just a few things that are par for the course

What would you do, if you were the CEO of a multinational data centre operator, caught in a once in a century global health crisis that stops the world? You might think the answer is to stop CAPEX and M&A projects, but for CEO Sureel Choksi from Vantage Data Centers, 2020 will go down in the company’s history books as a year of acceleration. João Marques Lima finds out more in this exclusive.

With a billion-dollar investment pot, SAS Institute is leading the pack when it comes to all the good AI is set to bring. However, as CEO James Goodnight sets the record straight with Abigail Opiah, he’s quick to highlight “AI is not going to take over the world, as people sometimes like to think.”

Last we spoke, Aqua Comms chief commercial officer Chris Bayly spoke to us about how the company continues to thrive in this new Covid-19 world.

It should come as no surprise that “no two days are alike” for Joshi. A typical day at work for her involves wearing multiple hats split carefully between business, strategy, and execution.

Throughout the pandemic, questions have been asked about what the post-Covid world could, and should, look like.

How has the market changed since Capacity was founded? Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to major industry figures about today’s changed business.

From the first issue and the first big conferences to the beginning of International Telecoms Week, and beyond, Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at two decades of Capacity.