FastConnect, now also via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange, helps enable clients towards achieving high performance, reliability, and a secure connection for critical enterprise applications.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – 28 FEBRUARY 2022 – Teraco Data Environments, a leading provider of colocation data centres and interconnection in Africa and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it will offer connectivity directly through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect at its Isando Campus for the Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region. Oracle clients are enabled to harness the power of Oracle Cloud services locally, including Oracle Database, to help enable them to unlock innovation and drive business growth.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect, now also via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange, may potentially provide higher -bandwidth options and potentially more reliable and consistent cloud networking services compared to Internet-based connections. Some other potential benefits may include:
- More consistent network performance and lower latency, compared with the public Internet
- Near-seamless connectivity between the data centre and networks to OCI for demanding workloads and applications
- Increased reliability, with a dedicated and pre-established path to OCI
- Improved security because data traffic flows strictly over trusted endpoints in a secure data centre location
- A relatively easy and cost-effective way to set up hybrid and multi-cloud workloads
- Near-seamless management of physical and virtual connections through a single portal
With OCI, customers benefit from best-in-class services, security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring any workload to the cloud relatively quickly and efficiently.
“Our direct connections to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure builds upon our commitment to ensure that our clients have direct, secure access to the critical IT resources they need to drive business success,” said Jan Hnizdo, Chief Executive Officer at Teraco. “The demand for Oracle Cloud in our market is a testament to its strength, and we are extremely pleased to be working closely with Oracle to accelerate their service delivery.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure currently has an extensive network of more than 70 FastConnect global and regional partners offering customers dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud regions and OCI services – providing customers with potentially one of the best options anywhere in the world.
Specifically architected to help meet the needs of the enterprise, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a next-generation cloud that delivers powerful compute and networking performance and a comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services from application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence), and blockchain. With unique architecture and capabilities, Oracle Cloud delivers unmatched security, performance, and cost savings. Oracle Cloud is the only cloud built to run Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry’s first and only self-driving database.
About Teraco Data Environments
Teraco provides carrier and cloud neutral colocation data centres, and with over 22,000 cross-connects, it is Africa’s most interconnected data centre hub. As the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa, Teraco brings global content closer to the digital edge. With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems, Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy.
Discovering new business partners, making strategic interconnection choices, on-ramping to the customer’s choice of cloud services, and reaching new markets globally – Teraco provides a highly secure, flexible and resilient home for digital organisations the world over. Purpose-built and operated to global best practice by an expert organisation with an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Teraco offers all its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable and resilient data centre services through its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town facilities. For more information about Teraco Data Environments, visit teraco.co.za.
About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program designed to help enable partners to accelerate the transition to the cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through the track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can help expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service. To learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork
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