CEO of Teraco , Jan Hnizdo , said that the company is poised for significant growth as hyperscale requirements continue to expand as a result of increased demand for cloud services in Africa . He said : “ South Africa is strategically located at the tip of the African continent and as a result , is positioned as a technology and data centre hub for Sub-Saharan Africa . This is further underpinned by growing undersea and terrestrial fibre connectivity to the rest of Africa . The continued increase of cloud adoption in Africa is also being enabled by investments in critical infrastructure , including hyperscale data centre facilities

THIS WILL ENABLE GLOBAL CLOUD CLIENTS TO SERVICE NOT ONLY THE SOUTH AFRICAN MARKET BUT REACH THE REST OF THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN REGION AS WELL .

such as JB4 . This will enable global cloud clients to service not only the South African market but reach the rest of the Sub-Saharan African region as well .”

Hnizdo reaffirms that Teraco is committed to growing its capacity footprint across its core hubs , thereby ensuring that clients have the certainty and flexibility of expansion to take part in the Digital Transformation that is taking place across Sub-Saharan Africa : He said : “ Teraco continues to invest significantly into the region ’ s ICT infrastructure and has built what is now Africa ’ s largest data centre platform . We take pride in our vendorneutral offering , enabling open access to interconnection and world-class resilient data centre infrastructure for all our clients .”

The JB4 facility is Teraco ’ s seventh data centre development and is located in the heart of the Ekurhuleni Aerotropolis . It is here that Teraco ’ s data centres already provide access to a wide choice of network service providers , peering at NAPAfrica , regional IXPs , content delivery networks and cloud provider on-ramps . Hnizdo said that this expansion is aimed at further supporting Sub-Saharan enterprises with advancing their Digital Transformation strategies , as well as enabling global cloud providers to expand their footprints – spurring innovation .

JB4 is the latest expansion to Teraco ’ s growing data centre platform and takes critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to over 110MW , which includes the Isando Campus JB1 / JB3 ( 39MW ), Bredell JB2 ( 13MW ), Rondebosch Cape Town CT1 ( 3MW ), Brackenfell Cape Town CT2 ( 18MW ) and Durban ( 1MW ).

Organisations working to accelerate their Digital Transformation utilise Teraco to dynamically scale their IT infrastructure , adopt hybrid multi-cloud architectures and interconnect with strategic business partners within the Platform Teraco ecosystem of over 600 global and local clients . ◊

Jan Hnizdo , CEO of Teraco

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