Internet Solutions expects massive growth in South Africa\u2019s data centre space, and foresees content distribution moving further to the edge of the network.<\/p>\n
This according to Saki Missaikos, CEO at IS.<\/p>\n
Missaikos made the comments after detailing their plans to use VAST<\/strong><\/a> to support faster 4G networks.<\/p>\n He said it is going to get exciting for them when the wireless access point becomes an \u201cedge cloud\u201d.<\/p>\n This will be more than a content delivery network (CDN) as they will have an understanding of how content must be delivered to devices at certain times – delivering to the end user intelligently.<\/p>\n This will help reduce one of the biggest costs for network providers – the backhaul.<\/p>\n As content moves closer to consumers, Missaikos said Johannesburg may end up hosting 16 or 17 data centres in Sandton alone.<\/p>\n Microsoft recently confirmed it will\u00a0launch Azure servers in South Africa<\/a><\/strong>, and Missaikos said they have partnered with the company to deliver its services through their data centres.<\/p>\n However, IS will not host the servers at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have nine data centres across the country. The problem we\u2019ve got is that they\u2019re 99% full, but we are busy with our next build,” he said.<\/p>\n Instead of providing hardware, Missaikos said they support Azure and other cloud providers through their cloud platform Skylight.<\/p>\n IS loves the fact that the \u201cbig boys\u201d in cloud like Microsoft are finally coming into the country. \u201cWe think it\u2019s the reason they came here,\u201d said Missaikos.<\/p>\n He said in the beginning, they were worried about being cloud agnostic. They wondered whether all they were doing was getting their clients to move onto Azure and Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what happened? The opposite,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Reasons for this included latency and speed, but they also found their clients enjoyed having the flexibility to move between cloud platforms.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of our clients are doubling and tripling their workloads in our environments.”<\/p>\n Internet Solutions expects massive growth in South Africa\u2019s data centre space, and foresees content distribution moving further to the edge of the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":200090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35,391,11285],"class_list":["post-216622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-saki-missaikos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216928,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216622\/revisions\/216928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Data centre boom<\/h3>\n
Now read: Internet Solutions\u2019 plan to support blazingly-fast 4G and 5G networks in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"