Teraco seals R31.69-billion deal
Teraco is officially Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, the South African data centre powerhouse announced on Monday.
New York-based Digital Realty has completed its acquisition of approximately 55% of Teraco.
Growth of data centres in South Africa
South Africa's data centre market is growing rapidly, with industry players building bigger and more advanced data centres.
The list of companies with facilities in the country continues to grow after Teraco kicked off South Africa's carrier-neutral data...
alphabet
amazon
amazon web services (aws)
google
huawei
microsoft
microsoft azure
nippon telegraph and telephone (ntt)
oracle
teraco
vantage data centres
west indian ocean cable company (wiocc)
South African neighbourhoods with the fastest broadband speeds
New research by Analytico reveals that Fairland in Randburg has the highest average mobile broadband speed while Wilro Park in Roodepoort has the highest fixed broadband speed.
The research used speed test results collected through...
South African Internet traffic surged 442000% in 10 years
Internet traffic flowing through NAPAfrica peaked at around 2.35 Tbps on Friday, 20 May 2022, a surge of over 441,911% since South Africa's biggest Internet exchange launched.
South African data centre company Teraco launched NAPAfrica...
Big Teraco takeover deal gets thumbs up from Competition Commission
The Competition Commission of South Africa has recommended that its Tribunal approve Digital Realty Trust's acquisition of Teraco, with conditions.
Reports of the planned acquisition first surfaced in early January 2022...
Billions flowing into South Africa's tech scene
While many segments of South Africa's economy have been struggling to keep heads above water amid the Covid-19 pandemic, one has been flourishing — tech.
Across the world, technology firms have generally benefitted from the disruption that came...
Where to get the fastest broadband speeds in South Africa
Randjiespark in Johannesburg has the highest average mobile broadband speed, while Garsfontein in Pretoria has the highest average fixed broadband speed.
These findings were revealed in an analysis of 400,000 speed tests done during the...
ISPs with the highest speeds in South Africa
Research by MyBroadband Insights revealed that Cybersmart, Webafrica, and Cool Ideas have the highest average performance on their networks.
The research is based on 1.9 million speed tests performed on MyBroadband’s speed test website and its speed...
Teraco opens multi-million rand data centre in Cape Town
Teraco Data Environments has announced the completion of Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
The multi-million rand facility is the largest data centre in the Western Cape, the vendor-neutral data...
Teraco spending R6 billion on new data centres in South Africa
Teraco Data Environments announced that it has completed its JB3 data centre facility located within its Isando campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.
While the company could not disclose the size of its investment into JB3...
South African neighbourhoods with the highest mobile speeds
New research by MyBroadband Insights revealed that Bryanston, Universitas, and Dan Pienaar are the South African neighbourhoods with the highest average mobile speeds.
MyBroadband Insights uses crowdsourced data from the MyBroadband...
Africa Coast to Europe cable launched in South Africa
The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable has gone live and is available for interconnection at all three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa, the company has announced.
This comes after the ACE cable put the last segment of...
South Africa's Internet traffic - 2014 to 2021
Internet traffic in South Africa has increased rapidly over the last few years, with the country’s biggest exchange now closing in on a peering throughput of 2Tbps.
This is according to feedback from data centre company Teraco, which operates...
Teraco secures R2.5 billion to construct Africa's largest data centre
Teraco has secured R2.5 billion in financing for the construction of its new 38MW data centre in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
The facility is called JB4 and will be the largest data centre in Africa once it is built.
The...
In conversation with Teraco's Michele McCann - Cloud 2020
Michele McCann is the Head of Interconnection and Peering at Teraco.
She previously served as a Business Development Manager at NAPAfrica, the largest Internet exchange in Africa.
Hi all,
Hope this is ok to post here - mods, please delete if not.
Busy working with a new company that's setting up hosting clusters in JHB & DBN.
The servers will be hosted in Teraco and provide excellent connectivity options.
As part of the final set of tests, I'm looking for anyone who...
Teraco building new Cape Town data centre
Teraco is building a second data centre facility in Cape Town, the company has announced.
Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), is a new 30MW data centre facility - and follows the company’s recent announcement of a 60MW expansion of its Johannesburg data centre...
South Africa will be the cloud centre for Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa will grow to become the cloud infrastructure hub for the entirety of Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Teraco MD Jan Hnizdo.
Speaking at the 2019 MyBroadband Cloud Conference, Hnizdo said that public cloud infrastructure...
How Teraco was started, and how long it took to make its first R10 million
Teraco is one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From its humble beginnings in 2008, it has now become the cornerstone of South Africa’s hosting and Internet market.
Teraco was started by Tim Parsonson and Lex...
Berkshire buys major stake in Teraco
Berkshire Partners LLC acquired a stake in Teraco Data Environments Pty Ltd., becoming the biggest shareholder in Africa’s largest data-center to capitalize on growing demand for internet and cloud-based services on the continent.
The Boston-based...