{"id":417350,"date":"2021-10-07T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=417350"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:29:08","slug":"teraco-opens-multi-million-rand-data-centre-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/417350-teraco-opens-multi-million-rand-data-centre-in-cape-town.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco opens multi-billion rand data centre in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teraco Data Environments has announced the completion of Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town.<\/p>\n

The multi-billion rand facility is the largest data centre in the Western Cape, the vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services provider stated.<\/p>\n

Teraco said the new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity.<\/p>\n

The first phase of CT2 comprises 25,000 square meters of building structure, 8,000sqm of data hall space, and 18 megawatts of critical power load.<\/p>\n

CT2 is connected to all the other Teraco data centres through the diverse ecosystem of network operators in the facility that forms part of \u201cPlatform Teraco\u201d.<\/p>\n

This includes 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, access to over 50 managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica \u2014 Africa\u2019s largest Internet exchange point.<\/p>\n

The subsea cables available in Teraco\u2019s facilities include ACE, WACS, SAT\u20133, and SAFE.<\/p>\n

Teraco said that the abundance of subsea cable connectivity is set to continue with Google\u2019s Equiano and the 2Africa cable system developments.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Jan Hnizdo, Teraco CEO<\/p><\/div>\n

The data centre provider has secured land and power adjacent to the CT2 facility that will allow it to double the capacity provided by CT2 in a future CT3 expansion.<\/p>\n

Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo told MyBroadband that they expect to build CT3 within the next five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo develop a facility from planning to ready-for-service is normally a two-year cycle,\u201d Hnizdo said.<\/p>\n

He explained that they would gauge their capacity and the utilisation rates of CT2, and then decide on a final timeline for CT3.<\/p>\n

Hnizdo said that CT2 was developed in anticipation of the needs of enterprises moving their systems into the cloud and needing a presence in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Teraco\u2019s CT1 facility was close to sold out, and Cape Town is home to thriving enterprises including telecommunications, financial services, e-commerce, logistics, and retail, he said.<\/p>\n

Hnizdo explained that a lot of these businesses\u2019 own data centre facilities are reaching their end-of-life.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of [them] are going to migrate to the cloud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While Teraco doesn\u2019t expect this migration to happen all at once, its facility will be ready for a steady stream of migrating enterprises over the next five years.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Teraco CT2<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cEnterprises are looking for the ability to scale as network strategies evolve,\u201d said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n

He added that most enterprise organisations are accelerating their digital transformation strategies and placing a greater focus on cloud adoption strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnterprises are starting to think more like content providers,\u201d said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow they think is that they must be in a highly available facility with a lot of freedom of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hnizdo said that over the last few years, Teraco has taken its expanding ecosystems and network-dense interconnection hubs, and moved beyond simple colocation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeraco is the enterprise infrastructure platform for growth and innovation,\u201d said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Now read: Africa Data Centres\u2019 R7.2 billion project includes South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teraco has launched a huge 18MW IT power data centre in Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":417356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35,29400,441],"class_list":["post-417350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-jan-hnizdo","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417350"}],"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=417350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}