Teraco, Africa’s largest vendor neutral colocation data centre provider further fueled its ambition to expand in fast growing colocation data center African markets. The company will be upgrading its Cape Town facility to offer more services to local organisations and international brands.
According to Teraco, the expansion of Cape Town is strategic to us and in line with the rising demand for power dense environments of today’s cloud-driven businesses. Lex van Wyk, CEO, Teraco said “The African data centre market is still rising and the potential for local growth is immense. The African market grew an estimated 15,8% in 2017, with South Africa being one of the top growth locations.”
The African market is believed to be at the beginning of its cloud-inspired journey, Teraco has already made significant progress in assisting several strategic cloud brands to enter the market: “South Africa is well positioned geographically to service the needs of Sub-Saharan Africa and on a colocation basis, it is larger than the next 20 African markets combined.” said Van Wyk.
Behind this growth trajectory is the story of Teraco. “Teraco has now built four fully operational data centres and launched Africa’s first hyper-scale facility,” said Van Wyk. “Core to our service offering is that all Teraco data centres are truly vendor-neutral, highly connected and content-rich interconnection hubs.”
The planned expansion of the Cape Town data centre will result in a facility five times larger than the original footprint completed in early 2009. Teraco’s Durban data centre, the smallest of its regional facilities, is also on an upgrade path due to increased demand.
“Responding to current and future client demands is of paramount importance. We have created an extremely robust offering and as a result, there is no other data centre in Africa capable of offering access to the same choice of connectivity, vast content or diverse cloud providers that resides in Teraco,” said Van Wyk.
