{"id":350729,"date":"2020-05-06T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=350729"},"modified":"2020-05-10T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T09:21:26","slug":"teraco-building-new-cape-town-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/350729-teraco-building-new-cape-town-data-centre.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco building new Cape Town data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teraco is building a second data centre facility in Cape Town, the company has announced.<\/p>\n

Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2) is a new 30MW data centre facility – and follows the company\u2019s recent announcement of a 60MW expansion of its Johannesburg data centre campus in Isando.<\/p>\n

Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo said the investment in the facility is driven by the growth of cloud in the region – resulting in increased demand from cloud providers, enterprises, and sub-sea cable operators.<\/p>\n

“Proximity to the cloud, ecosystems, and the consumer market is vital in new digital architecture as enterprises move their applications into the cloud and transform their businesses,\u201d said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n

He added that with the\u00a0recent announcements of direct interconnection availability to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and AWS Direct Connect, Teraco has seen a growing uptake by the enterprise market.<\/p>\n

“Platform Teraco allows enterprises to have direct private connections to all the leading cloud providers in the most latency efficient, secure, and resilient manner possible,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Enterprises can deploy their public, private and hybrid cloud strategies on Platform Teraco, which allows for complete freedom of choice from a cloud provider perspective.”<\/p>\n

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Render of Cape Town facility<\/p><\/div>\n

Construction has started<\/h3>\n

Teraco said construction on the site started in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

A targeted completion date of Q3 2021 has been set.<\/p>\n

“The completed facility will comprise of eight data halls encompassing 8,000 square metres of usable floor space, doubling the existing data centre capacity in the Cape Town region.”<\/p>\n

“This new investment in the Mother City is special for us,” said Hnizdo, “as Teraco launched its first data centre facility in Rondebosch Cape Town, 11 years ago.”<\/p>\n

NAPAfrica<\/h3>\n

Internet exchange point NAPAfrica will also be deployed in the new CT2 facility, said Teraco.<\/p>\n

“Teraco expects to see further growth and benefit for the enterprise and content ecosystems in the region,” it said.<\/p>\n

NAPAfrica is Africa\u2019s largest Internet exchange and offers direct access to over 300 unique networks servicing over 20 countries in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n

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Jan Hnizdo<\/p><\/div>\n

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