NEWS
Redstor adds new data centre in South Africa
edstor, a leading cloud data
management SaaS business
with technology developed in
South Africa, is expanding operations by
adding a new data centre in Johannesburg.
The decision to take up a presence in
Teraco Data Environments, Isando, follows
unprecedented demand for the company’s
disruptive data management platform.
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Paul Evans, CEO and co-founder of
Redstor, said: “Businesses are constantly
creating more and more data and
numerous organisations are recognising
great value in Redstor’s pioneering cloud
data management service.”
Redstor has aggressive growth plans
to treble business by 2020 and has
Redstor is expanding
operations by adding a new
data centre in Johannesburg
invested heavily in data centre facilities
over a number of years to provide
services with enterprise-level availability
and resilience.
Tom Campbell, Technical Services Director
at Redstor, said: “As well as giving us
additional capacity for onboarding
new customers, the data centre in
Johannesburg enhances our coverage and
improves our resilience.
“We now have stronger geographical
separation of data in Africa for
continuity purposes.”
Redstor provides local services,
guaranteeing data sovereignty, regardless
of a customer’s location.
With on-net connectivity to more than 130
data centres globally, Redstor is now also
looking at taking up a presence in a new
data centre in Germany and elsewhere in
mainland Europe.
Legal & General partners with
Goldacre for UK data centre deal
egal & General Capital has
announced that it has invested
in The Kao Data Campus,
a state-of-the-art £230million data
centre development servicing the
London to Cambridge corridor.
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Kao was named in honour of Nobel
Prize winning physicist Sir Charles
Kao, who pioneered the use of fibre
optics at the site of Kao’s first data
campus development.
Goldacre is the technology investment
arm of Noé Group’s international asset
management and investment business. Goldacre to drive the strategic
expansion and accelerated growth of
the UK data industry.
This investment demonstrates a
commitment from Legal & General to
deliver the digital infratructure required
for future cities and marks the first
step of an ambitious partnership with From its first 35.2MW data campus
in the London to Cambridge corridor,
Kao serves hyperscalers and enterprise
customers across the largest data centre
market and technology cluster in Europe.
In recent years, there has been an
exponential increase in data creation
and cloud computing, leading to a shift
in storage from in-house data centre
infrastructure to third party providers.
Focused on driving the necessary
technology and infrastructure
developments to meet this rising
demand, Legal & General has partnered
with existing investors in Kao, Goldacre
Noé Group.
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