Andrew Baker, Chief technology Officer, Absa, visited Teraco data centre
Andrew Baker, Chief technology Officer, Absa, recently visited Teraco Data Environments’ rapidly expanding 30 MW Cape Town data centre. He was impressed with the facility and recognised that it is purpose built for hyperscalers and boasts world-class resilience, very efficient cooling, ultra-low latency to cloud providers and highly resilient distributed redundant infrastructure. Baker said that “When you look at the depth of thought that has gone into a facility like this, it’s really clear that we should all stick to our businesses purposes. Building data centres isn’t something most corporates should attempt”.
  • Construction on the Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2) 30MW data centre facility commenced in early March 2020 and has a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eight data halls encompassing 8000sqm of usable floor space, doubling the existing data centre capacity in the Cape Town region.
  • Over the past decade, Teraco has focused on growing its ecosystems of carriers, content, financial services, enterprise and service providers. Its offering is underpinned by providing clients with direct access to Africa’s largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP), NAPAfrica, which includes all the benefits of interconnection via the Teraco platform. By deploying NAPAfrica within the new CT2 facility, Teraco expects to see further growth and benefit for the enterprise and content ecosystems in the region.
Andrew Baker, Chief technology Officer, Absa, recently visited Teraco Data Environments’ rapidly expanding 30 MW Cape Town data centre. He was impressed with the facility and recognised that it is purpose built for hyperscalers and boasts world-class resilience, very efficient cooling, ultra-low latency to cloud providers and highly resilient distributed redundant infrastructure. Baker said that “When you look at the depth of thought that has gone into a facility like this, it’s really clear that we should all stick to our businesses purposes. Building data centres isn’t something most corporates should attempt”.  
  • Jan Hnizdo, CEO of Teraco says, “Teraco is committed to growing its capacity footprint across its core hubs, thereby ensuring that clients have certainty and the flexibility of expansion to take part in the digital transformation that is happening across sub-Saharan Africa. Teraco continues to invest significantly into the region’s ICT infrastructure and has built what is now Africa’s largest data centre platform. We take pride in our vendor-neutral offering, with open access to interconnection and world-class resilient data centre infrastructure for all our clients”.