The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has moved closer to traders and to other world markets with the installation, by Dark Fibre Africa, of a direct fibre link between the bourse’s head office in Sandton and Teraco’s data centre in Isando, east of Johannesburg. The 32km
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South Africa is set to become the first country outside the US to offer Seagate’s new storage cloud solution when it is launched later this month by the American company’s local partner, Sithabile Technology Services. Seagate Storage Cloud will be hosted at Teraco
A fire broke out at Mxit’s offices in Stellenbosch early this morning. The fire started at 2am on Wednesday. Mxit chief financial officer Richard Newton said the fire was the result of an electrical fault. “There was a fair amount of smoke damage that
The investment by UK-based private equity firm Permira into one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest data centre companies, Teraco Data Environments, is another marker that private equity players in Europe and the US are taking investing in South African and Africa
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Due to the rapid response of Cape Town firefighters, a blaze at the Great Westerford Building in Rondebosch, which houses data centres belonging to Teraco and Hetzner, has been contained, Teraco said on Thursday afternoon. “The fire occurred on the roof
A fire is menacing two of the country’s biggest data centre operators. Teraco and Hetzner on Thursday confirmed that the building in which their Cape Town data centres is housed was on fire on Thursday. “We are in contact with the fire department
Fast-growing independent data centre operator Teraco Data Environments has increased the size of its medium-term funding facility to R400m. The additional funding has been secured from Barclays Africa
Fast-growing independent South African data centre operator Teraco is being acquired. The deal is being led through funds from international private equity firm Permira. Teraco has quickly established itself as the top “carrier neutral” data centre operator in sub-Saharan Africa since
Liberalised markets create competition, and that means more operators. But the growing array of these voice and data providers can’t operate in isolation: they have to connect to each other. In Nigeria, Medallion Communications has stepped in to meet this need. The larger and more complex