India is on the cusp of a data centre (DC) revolution. Once a small, fragmented industry, colocation DCs are fast transitioning into a large, potentially consolidated industry. Buoyed by the growing demand, plans have been drawn up for over 45 DCs spanning 13 mn sq ft and 1,015 Mw of IT capacity that will come up in India by end-2025.
Nigeria’s Anchor, a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform making it possible to seamlessly build financial products in Africa, has raised over US$1 million in pre-seed funding and announced its public beta launch.
The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has signed a partnership agreement with Adobe to accelerate digital creativity skills across the country. Under the agreement, Adobe will offer courses and expertise for upskilling educators, and integrate digital creativity into the curriculum, to prepare students with the essential creative and digital literacy skills.
Mobile marketing platform Attentive joins the martech throng putting together a complete solution featuring data cloud Snowflake. Based on Snowflake Marketplace, the feature will allow joint customers to create a data loop, activating first-party data from Snowflake in the Attentive platform and sending performance data back to Snowflake for analysis. Attentive will also be able to feed customer interactions, including conversations, back to Snowflake.