Etisalat has signed a memorandum of understanding with HCL Technologies, a leading IT services provider, towards exploring collaborative opportunities for offering innovative ICT services to customers.

As per the agreement, Etisalat and HCL Technologies will work together to explore the possibility of collaboration for offering joint ICT solutions to business customers in the areas of mobility, cloud computing and advanced ICT services.

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Kenyan ISP Access Kenya Group is investing US$60,000 into new data centre capacity for the country,

Access Kenya Group said it hopes that by investing in the storage facility, it will increase overall ICT investment in the region. The company is planning to roll out its network, which stretches from Nairobi to Mombasa

Source: Telecom Paper

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The first phase of Ghana’s US$30 million Data Centre and Wide Area Network project which is over 95% complete will be ready by the end of July 2011, an official of the National Information Technology Agency has said. The project is financed with a loan from China.

The Jumeirah Group has appointed eHosting Data Fort to transform its Data Centre design. The group, which previously had distributed data centres, found that these did not provide the necessary growth and capacity that was planned for Jumeirah beyond 2010, so began a search for a company that could transform IT infrastructure.

Data Centres (DCs) in Singapore can now look forward to a set of standards to help them put in place the necessary policies, systems and processes to improve their energy efficiency and minimise environmental impact. Developed by the IT Standards Committee (ITSC) together with Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and SPRING Singapore, the Singapore Standard for Green Data Centres – Energy and Environmental Management Systems (SS564:2010) – is a certifiable management system that provides DCs with a framework and methodology to achieve energy efficiency.