February 2, 2012
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Services giant EOH partners with Teraco for colocation and service delivery
Date: July 19, 2010
Isando, Johannesburg: Teraco Data Environments, South Africa’s first vendor neutral data centre, has announced that EOH has taken up cabinet space at its Isando facility to host some of its clients’ websites and provide outsourced services.
EOH is a JSE-listed, R787.3 million strong technology and outsourcing provider, offering medium to large enterprises in South Africa and selected African countries with a complete managed services provider offering. Developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions, and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes, EOH takes care of all its clients’ day-to-day IT management needs.
The other big managed services partner already in Teraco is global giant T-Systems. Its network node lets Teraco customers in Cape Town and the surrounding areas connect directly into T-Systems’ domestic and global MPLS networks, as well as get access to its managed network services.
“The addition of EOH to our vendor neutral data centre will give companies already colocating with Teraco ever more flexibility in their choice of service providers,” says Lex van Wyk, managing director of Teraco. “Colocation is a more affordable option for EOH than building its own data centre as it can eliminate the last mile cost. EOH will also benefit from the free market of connectivity within Teraco, enabling it to on-sell its services to the whole community of companies already leasing space in our data centre.”
EOH will immediately start providing its outsourced services from within Teraco, which includes.... Its new location with access to multiple carriers and service providers in Teraco presents a particularly attractive option to international companies that want to establish a presence in South Africa, but don’t want the accompanying IT management headache.
“Teraco gives us a stable, world-class data centre environment from which to provide our technology services,” says Rob Godlonton, executive director of strategic business at EOH. “Its unique business model in South Africa also provided us with the neutrality that’s so important to us as a provider of customer-centric managed services.”