Powering Kenya's Digital Future. The red carpet was rolled out, and the room was full. IXAfrica Data Centre Limited hosted an incredible gathering of guests from across the industry under the theme "Powering Kenya's digital future through secure Cloud innovation." iXAfrica hosted a gathering of Kenya's technology and telecommunications leaders on "Powering Kenya's Digital Future through Secure Cloud Innovation," in partnership with Paratus Kenya, Zadara, and Touchnet. Senior leaders including Snehar Shah; Martin Cox, Group Chief Commercial Officer at Paratus; Joseph Kibiwot, Managing Director of Paratus Kenya; and Abiyda Aziz, Head of Operations at Touchnet, discussed the business value of digital transformation and the growing importance of sovereign cloud. The shared conclusion: data sovereignty, security, and resilience are becoming fundamental requirements across both enterprise and public-sector environments, and Kenya is moving beyond ambition toward deployed capability. Thank you to everyone who joined IXAfrica Data Centre Limited, and to its Host partners Paratus Kenya, Zadara, Touchnet, Abyda Aziz, for a day packed with sharp insight and meaningful conversation - from the value of digital transformation to sovereign cloud and the infrastructure quietly powering Kenya's next chapter. The energy in the room said it all: the future of secure, locally-hosted cloud is being built right here.

Cloud Solution of the Year. ZaveIT's win as Cloud Solution of the Year highlights the power of partner-led service growth. Together with StonesThro, Zadara and Lupovis, ZaveIT shows how MSPs can package, deliver and scale complex managed services through a trusted ecosystem and a smarter commercial platform. IT Business ZaveIT and its partners win Cloud Solution of the Year. Proves new model for MSP service growth. ZaveIT win at the Storage Awards follows a UK collaboration with StonesThro, Zadara and Lupovis, showing how MSPs can bring complex managed services to market through trusted partner ecosystems. ZaveIT has been named Cloud Solution of the Year at the Storage Awards in London, one of the industry's established awards programmes for cloud, storage and managed IT services. The award recognises more than a standalone technology platform. For ZaveIT, it validates a partner-led model that has already been put into practice in the UK market through its collaboration with StonesThro, Zadara and Lupovis. Together, the companies have supported a managed cyber deception service that combines StonesThro's UK MSP expertise, Zadara's edge cloud and storage infrastructure, Lupovis' deception technology, and ZaveIT's commercial platform layer. The service creates realistic decoy targets for cyber threats and was recently covered editorially by Storage Magazine. This award belongs to the team and the partnerships behind it, says Lars Olav Habberstad, CEO at ZaveIT. ZaveIT AS would not be telling this story without the work done with StonesThro, Zadara and Lupovis. It is a strong example of what happens when a trusted MSP, proven infrastructure, specialist technology and a scalable commerce platform come together. A partnership-led proof point in the UK market. The StonesThro collaboration matters because it shows how MSPs are increasingly bringing new services to market. Rather than one company building and delivering everything alone, successful service models are being formed through specialist ecosystems. In this case, StonesThro brings local customer relationships and understanding of the UK market. Zadara provides enterprise-grade edge cloud and storage infrastructure. Lupovis contributes cyber deception technology. ZaveIT provides the commercial layer that helps structure, automate and scale the service offering across partners and customers. ZaveIT AS needed a SaaS billing and provisioning system out of the box, integrated with Zadara, says Andy Bates at StonesThro. But to build the ecosystem ZaveIT AS want to build, ZaveIT AS also needed a marketplace. ZaveIT provides all this. Alasdair Hill, Sales Director at Zadara, says the collaboration illustrates the potential of edge cloud infrastructure in new managed service models. This is a hugely exciting project, illustrating the power og the edge cloud or microscaler. Collectively, ZaveIT AS is driving a truly innovative new market. For MSPs, this kind of model is becoming more important. Customers want access to advanced services, but they also expect clarity, speed, accountability and a professional buying and management experience. That requires more than technical capability. It requires the commercial structure to package, distribute, deliver and manage services consistently. The future og managed services will be shaped by collaboration, says Habberstad. MSPs need to combine specialist technologies, infrastructure partners and their own customer relationships in ways that are repeatable and commercially sustainable. Why this reflects a wider MSP market shift. Across the UK and Europe, MSPs are facing a more complex service environment. Many already have strong systems in place for service execution, finance, support and customer relationships, from PSA and CRM platforms to billing systems, distributor portals and vendor marketplaces. The issue often sits between those systems. As service portfolios expand, MSPs need a clearer way to turn products, subscriptions, partner services and their own expertise into managed offerings that can be sold, delivered, billed and renewed at scale. The pressure is not simply to deliver more. The real challenge is to make complex services easier to buy, easier to manage and easier to scale across customers, partners and resellers, without adding the same level of manual administration behind the scenes. The ZaveIT, StonesThro, Zadara and Lupovis collaboration is one example of that shift in practice: a service built through a trusted partner ecosystem, supported by infrastructure, specialist cyber capability and a commercial platform layer. From award win to partner ecosystem model. ZaveIT was also shortlisted for As a Service Platform of the Year and SaaS Provider of the Year at the Storage Awards, underlining the company's role in the changing market for cloud, managed services and service delivery models. Founded in Norway, ZaveIT is already active in Norway, the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, with further expansion planned across the Nordics, Benelux and continental Europe. The company also holds the Made in Norway label from Innovation Norway. For ZaveIT, the award is not only a recognition of its own software. It is recognition of a model where MSPs, vendors and technology specialists can work together to bring advanced services to market faster and more effectively. Technology is still important, but it is no longer enough on its own, says Habberstad. The next winners in the MSP market will be those who can connect strong services with effective partner channels, a better customer experience and clearer proof of value.

DDN and Zadara power sovereign, Multi-Tenant AI Factories built on NVIDIA Reference architecture. March 19, 2026 Press play to listen to this content SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2026 - DDN and Zadara have announced a strategic technology partnership to deliver high-performance AI infrastructure for sovereign clouds and multi-tenant AI factories, built on NVIDIA Reference Designs for multi-tenant clouds. This partnership is a key component of DDN's enterprise AI strategy, which is built around two pillars: * Enterprise AI at scale * A growing ecosystem of partners committed to making AI infrastructure easier to deploy, faster to operationalize, and more affordable to run. By partnering with innovators like Zadara, DDN is accelerating its mission to make enterprise AI accessible, affordable, and fast - not just for hyperscalers, but for service providers, telcos, regulated industries, and global enterprises that need sovereign control, predictable performance, and secure multi-tenant operations. As NVIDIA accelerates the global evolution of AI infrastructure through standardized reference architectures, enterprises, service providers, and telcos are increasingly focused on deploying software-defined AI factories that deliver predictable performance, rapid time-to-value, and secure multi-tenant operations across sovereign, private, and hybrid environments. The DDN-Zadara partnership directly addresses these requirements by combining Zadara's AI-optimized, cloud-native orchestration and GPU-aware infrastructure platform, built-on NVIDIA Reference Designs for Multi-Tenant Clouds, with DDN EXAScaler's proven performance for large-scale AI training and inference. Together, the two companies will enable service providers, telcos, and enterprises to deploy NVIDIA-powered, AI infrastructure quickly, securely, and efficiently - while maintaining full control over compliance, cost, tenant isolation, and performance SLAs. A Unified Foundation for Sovereign AI and Multi-Tenant AI Factories Zadara's platform is designed to abstract the operational complexity of AI infrastructure while preserving the performance and governance requirements demanded by sovereign and multi-tenant environments. The company supports secure GPU networking, policy-based orchestration, and strong and secure tenant segmentation with native alignment to NVIDIA guidance on best practices for GPU virtualization and allocation. Through this partnership, DDN EXAScaler will serve as the high-performance AI data layer for Zadara's AI Factory and sovereign cloud deployments - enabling consistent throughput, massive concurrency, and predictable scaling for GPU-intensive workloads. Making Enterprise AI Practical: Accessible, Affordable, and Fast Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating - but many organizations still face the same core blockers: * High infrastructure complexity * Unpredictable GPU performance * Data locality and compliance requirements * Multi-tenant governance and operational control * Cost and time-to-value constraints This partnership directly addresses those barriers by delivering an integrated, production-ready foundation for real-world AI factories- where the AI stack is not only powerful, but also operationally scalable. While many AI factory strategies remain theoretical, Zadara and DDN are focused on delivering real-world deployments that customers can operationalize immediately, including containerized AI stacks, high-performance GPU networking, and multi-tenant controls required by regulated industries and national AI initiatives. NVIDIA GTC Launch + Go-To-Market "AI factories are the new operating model for modern enterprises and service providers - but they only succeed when the data layer can keep GPUs productive at scale," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder at DDN. "Partnering with Zadara is part of DDN's broader enterprise AI strategy and ecosystem commitment - making AI infrastructure more accessible, affordable, and fast for enterprises that need sovereign control and multi-tenant performance. Together, we're delivering a proven path to deploy NVIDIA-powered AI factories with performance, security, and operational confidence." "NVIDIA reference designs are accelerating the broad adoption of AI factories. Yet organizations need a cloud-native platform that can operationalize them simply and efficiently in real-world, multi-tenant environments while complying with data sovereignty regulations," said Yoram Novick, CEO at Zadara. "DDN EXAScaler brings the high-performance AI data foundation needed to meet demanding sovereign and enterprise requirements while Zadara delivers the orchestration, isolation, and policy control required to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, securely, and efficiently." Why This Partnership Matters * AI Factories are becoming the default infrastructure model for enterprises, telcos, and cloud service providers. * Sovereign and multi-tenant deployments require tenant isolation, compliance, and predictable SLAs - not just raw performance. * Tenant isolation spans across storage, compute and networking in tight integration. * AI infrastructure must be delivered as an integrated system - GPU + networking + data, with orchestration and policy built in. * Enterprise AI must be practical, with faster time-to-value and a clear path to production - not months of integration work. Together, DDN and Zadara deliver a production-ready foundation for sovereign, multi-tenant AI factories - combining the high-performance AI data layer required to keep GPUs fully utilized with the cloud-native orchestration, policy control, and tenant isolation required to operate AI infrastructure securely at scale. The joint solution enables customers to deploy AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA to: * DDN EXAScaler performance at scale, delivering high throughput and massive concurrency for training, inference, checkpointing, and large dataset pipelines * Cloud-native multi-tenant orchestration, including GPU-performance-aware scheduling and automation * Policy-based segmentation and sovereign controls, supporting compliance, tenant isolation, and data locality requirements * Integration with NVIDIA networking and DPU technologies, enabling secure, high-performance AI factory architectures * Predictable performance SLAs and faster time-to-value, reducing operational complexity while accelerating AI deployment across enterprise and service provider environments DDN is the world's leading provider of AI data storage and data management platforms, powering over 20 years of innovation across HPC, enterprise, and the largest AI deployments on Earth. With its EXA, Infinia, and intelligent data management platforms, DDN delivers unmatched performance, scale, and business value for customers building next-generation AI factories, hyperscale clouds, and Sovereign AI initiatives. DDN is the trusted partner for thousands of the world's most data-intensive organizations, including the leading national labs, research institutions, enterprises, hyperscalers, financial firms, and autonomous vehicle innovators. For more information, visit www.ddn.com. About Zadara Zadara is a leading provider of sovereign AI edge clouds offering a revolutionary distributed cloud platform that simplifies operational complexity and enables seamless multi-tenancy through automated end-to-end provisioning of compute, storage, and networking. With over 500 edge cloud locations worldwide and with the ability to deploy a cloud in any location, Zadara's clouds are uniquely positioned to meet the unique demands of various cloud-based use cases, including sovereign cloud and AI inference at the edge for service providers and the modern enterprise. Zadara clouds are AWS compatible and feature consumption-based pricing with zero data egress fees. Zadara's fully-managed clouds are designed to accommodate any workload, anywhere - whether on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud or at the edge. Zadara operates worldwide with a highly skilled team that provides 24/7 follow-the-sun support and services. Zadara is headquartered in Irvine, California. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, March 19, 2026 - The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the... March 18, 2026 - Smaller than the full-size system, the EAS gives NERSC staff and... SEOUL and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 18, 2026 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced... 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