{"id":5970,"date":"2008-11-13T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-13T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T08:11:00","slug":"best-data-centre-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/5970-best-data-centre-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Best data centre in SA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business recently launched its new tier four hosting facility in Midrand (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php?photo=7829\" target=\"_blank\">hosting centre image<\/a><\/strong>).&nbsp; The R100 million facility boasts various impressive facilities, including biometric security systems, video surveillance, on-site security officers and surplus power.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 000 square metre datacentre is fully redundant and built and designed on an N+N principle.&nbsp; According to Vodacom business the security and robustness of the facility is top notch, being able to withstand natural disasters such as tornados while the glass in the facility is fully bullet proof.<\/p>\n<p>Cabling to all secure cabinets allow for 10Gig copper, 10Gig multimode optic fibre and 10Gig single mode fiber, enabling exceptional user experience free from bandwidth bottlenecks. <\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business executive director Wally Beelders says that he is confident that the datacentre is the most advanced of its kind in South Africa and possibly the southern hemisphere. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A tier four datacentre refers to a facility which is designed to host mission critical computer systems with &quot;fully redundant subsystems and compartmentalised security zones controlled by biometric access&quot;. The datacentre should be fault tolerant and provide 99.995% availability.<\/p>\n<p>The new Vodacom hosting facility qualifies as a tier four datacentre and is certainly world class in every respect. It is quite clear that Vodacom was prepared to invest heavily in this project to ensure that it is the best money can buy.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom Business plans to offer a full spectrum of hosting services, including basic web hosting, dedicated hosting, server co-location, managed storage and managed backups.<\/p>\n<p>The company&rsquo;s initial focus will be on the enterprise sector but Beelders said that more consumer related offerings will follow soon.<\/p>\n<p>Beelders is confident that the new datacentre will be fully utilised by September 2009 and he says there are already plans to invest in a larger facility for future needs. Vodacom Business is also planning to invest in similar facilities in Cape Town and Kwazulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=145405\">Vodacom Business DC discussion<\/a><\/strong> || <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/7828\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom Business DC photo <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Business\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 data centre may be best in the southern hemisphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}