{"id":35062,"date":"2011-10-01T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35062"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:57:10","slug":"teraco-durban-data-centre-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/35062-teraco-durban-data-centre-opened.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco Durban data centre opened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teraco<\/a> Data Environments on Thursday 29 September 2011 opened the doors of its third vendor neutral colocation facility in River Horse Valley. Dark fibre Africa<\/a>, MWeb<\/a>, Telkom<\/a>, Neotel<\/a>, Bitco<\/a>, Continuity Solutions<\/a>, Vox Telecom<\/a> and Broadband Infraco<\/a> are current tenants, with several other businesses in negotiation stage.<\/p>\n

This facility forms a core part of Teraco\u2019s national expansion plans, creating another strategic regional presence for the company to complement its facilities in Isando, Johannesburg (JB1) and in Rondebosch, Cape Town (CT1). Collectively, Teraco\u2019s portfolio of three data centres now delivers 3000 sqm of floor space across South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cKwaZulu Natal has a robust economy with an established industrial base, a strong commercial sector and excellent services, especially in the telecoms space. We are seeing rapid growth in office park developments catering to high-tech companies, and expansions to the ports and airports will be catalysts for a local economic boom,\u201d says Lex van Wyk<\/a>, managing director of Teraco.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe communications infrastructure growth here with Durban\u2019s progressive fibre broadband strategy and the landing of the SEACOM<\/a> and EASSy<\/a> cables makes the city an important new operational hub for Teraco.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening of the 600 square meter (sqm) facility is Phase 1. Future growth potential exceeds 1000 sqm.<\/p>\n

Critical power of 1MVA is provided via resilient municipal power feeds into the data centre. The data centre is built according to international best practice. With efficient cooling allowing for 5kVA per cabinet and more, the Data center is designed to a 99.999% uptime resiliency.<\/p>\n

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Lex van Wyk<\/p><\/div>\n

Van Wyk explains that DB1 offers local businesses easy access to their \u2018own\u2019 data centre and lower latency through its regional presence for Internet connectivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn theory, it\u2019s possible to have a data centre in any location. In practice, companies want to stay close to their data \u2013 both for the occasional need to physical access their servers, as well as to minimise latency to ensure online applications are responsive. Teraco\u2019s total neutrality gives companies access to world-class infrastructure for their data centre requirements as the trend towards outsourcing grows, especially with cloud computing. DB1\u2019s location on the fibre rings of major licensed local carriers and our unrestricted choice of providers will reduce interconnection costs for Durban companies,\u201d says Van Wyk.<\/p>\n

According to Van Wyk, data centre construction today has become more complex, as accurately forecasting future growth requirements\u00a0 and managing practical restrictions such as access to power, security and land use regulations can be moving targets.<\/p>\n

Van Wyk believes \u201cColocation offers companies best practice facilities with reduced complexity and predictable costs. DB1\u2019s high quality, high availability IT infrastructure will support Internet infrastructure expansion in Durban, raising business competitiveness in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Balancingact-Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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