INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Teraco achieves global top
three data centre ranking
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n Cloudscene’s seventh publication of
the Data Centre Ecosystem Leaderboard,
Teraco’s JB1 East and West data centre
has been ranked third globally in terms of
service providers available at the facility. its data centre facilities. Teraco’s business
model of pure-play, vendor neutral
colocation enables the creation of an open
marketplace for interconnection and new
digital business opportunities.
Cloudscene’s rankings are derived from the
data published in the directory, which is
sourced from the service providers and data
centre operators and verified by an internal
data analysis team. “By colocating in a Teraco data centre,
you are surrounded by opportunities to
form new interconnections with business
partners, service providers and networks,”
added McCann.
Michele McCann, Teraco Head of
Interconnection and Peering, says that the
company is delighted with its ranking. “It
is a significant milestone for us to be listed
among industry giants and to represent
the African continent,” she said. “To have
achieved this growth and ranking in ten
years is something we are very proud of.” “Whether you are an enterprise buyer, service
provider or reseller, Teraco’s Marketplace
listing is the easiest way to find and connect
to the ever-expanding ecosystem.”
The ranking is a result interconnection,
which Teraco strongly encourages within
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The ecosystem experiencing the fastest
growth is spearheaded by Teraco’s
Africa Cloud Exchange, a purpose-built
interconnection platform, which improves
enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud
performance through direct interconnection.
This enables enterprises to do more in the
cloud by providing secure, direct, flexible
network connections to a wide range of local
and global cloud service providers, including
AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure and local
cloud vendors.
In real-world latency test results from
Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange directly
to resources deployed in Western Europe
versus resources deployed in South Africa,
McCann says that the RTT (Round Trip
Time) has improved from an average of
171ms down to less than 2ms.
“There are over 270 service providers
available at our JB1 East and West data
centre facility, servicing existing client,”
said McCann. “For the new enterprises
entering the facility, there is endless
choice of applications, carriers, cloud
services and content upon which to build
their digital strategy.” n
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