Teraco is the Amazon Cloud on-ramp for sub-Saharan Africa

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is now live in South Africa and located at Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, Teraco. AWS Direct Connect enables clients to directly connect to their AWS resources in an AWS region. The service is accessible via a direct cross-connect within Teraco or from the Teraco Cloud Exchange platform in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Construction of data centre prototype starts in Boden

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2017. The prototype facility will accomodate 500 kW of IT load and is expected to be up and running by the end of the year.

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NGD promotes Justin Jenkins to Managing Director

Next Generation Data (NGD), operator of Europe’s largest data centre, has appointed Justin Jenkins as Managing Director.

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Equinix and Omantel to build Oman data centre

New interconnection hub will support content traffic growth in MENA region.

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Teraco to invest R1bn in SA ICT infrastructure with expansion of JB1 Campus

In its largest infrastructure build project to date, Africa’s only neutral data centre provider will be expanding the Teraco Isando Campus (JB1). Increased demand for additional data centre capacity is being driven by cloud uptake and enterprise organisations wanting to access the Teraco platform.

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Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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