Grow - scaleability and flexibility

More freedom

Flexible power and space specifications make changes and additions easy. Customers can choose collocation in the colocation areas , or a private cage. New interconnections can be set up rapidly to new partners or service providers as the business need changes.

Absolute focus

Teraco’s sole business goal is the provision of high quality Data Centres. This allows customers to save on capital expenditure and operating costs, and focus on their businesses, unfettered by logistic or technology limitations, but with complete confidence in their systems’ availability. Through continued investment in expanded and new facilities, Teraco presents a long term solution for its customers’ expanding business requirement.

Future growth

Even as Teraco’s first Cape Town and Johannesburg Data Centres come online, 3000m2 of additional space is already in planning. Customers can reserve space immediately for future expected needs, with an N+1 resilient interconnect and power infrastructure that is ready to cover any future growth.

Why the growing demand for Data Centre space?

IT Centralisation and Virtualisation of servers

• Companies are consolidating and centralising their IT resources, and as a result the number of remote users are on the increase;
• Virtual servers are becoming very popular as, with scale, they are cheaper to run and use less space and power than physical servers. The economic benefit of virtualization technology becomes more significant with scale, so companies are incentivised to centralize all servers into fewer locations;

Software as a Service – hosted applications

• Hosted software is becoming standard. All the major software vendors such as Microsoft are starting to offer hosted applications, e.g. spreadsheets, calendars, email and word processors which become online applications (hosted in colocation centres) instead of applications stored and run from your desktop PC.

Growth in Internet and Data Traffic

• Global internet traffic is projected to grow at 91% compound annual growth rate from 2006 to 2011 (according to IDC), driven by the decrease in bandwidth costs, increasing broadband penetration, the growing use of network based applications, increased content usage and bandwidth-intensive applications.
• Broadband is taking off in South Africa with the introduction of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (“ADSL”) and various Wireless broadband products entering the market. Broadband penetration is forecast to triple within the next 5 years.
• Increased internet traffic drives a demand for data centres as customers need a secure environment to locate the additional networking and computing equipment.
• This will hold particularly true in South Africa, where bandwidth prices have only recently started to fall sharply, and are likely to continue to, due to emerging infrastructure competition.