{"id":421342,"date":"2020-07-30T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=421342"},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:37:19","slug":"teraco-is-building-a-massive-data-centre-in-cape-town-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/421342\/teraco-is-building-a-massive-data-centre-in-cape-town-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Teraco is building a massive data centre in Cape Town: pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teraco has posted photographs to Twitter of the ongoing development of its second data centre in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

\u201cConstruction of CT2, Teraco\u2019s recently announced data centre facility located in the Western Cape, is making steady progress,\u201d\u00a0tweeted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Teraco.<\/p>\n

The 30MW data centre facility is one of two new data centre development projects underway at Teraco \u2013 with the other being a 60MW expansion of its Johannesburg campus in Isando.<\/p>\n

Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo previously\u00a0said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the development of the company\u2019s second Cape Town facility is driven by the growth of cloud in the area.<\/p>\n

This has caused increased demand for resources from cloud providers, enterprises, and sub-sea cable operators.<\/p>\n

\u201cProximity to the cloud, ecosystems, and the consumer market is vital in new digital architecture as enterprises move their applications into the cloud and transform their businesses,\u201d said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n

Hnizdo added that Teraco has seen increased uptake by the enterprise market in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlatform Teraco allows enterprises to have direct private connections to all the leading cloud providers in the most latency efficient, secure, and resilient manner possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnterprises can deploy their public, private and hybrid cloud strategies on Platform Teraco, which allows for complete freedom of choice from a cloud provider perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The details<\/strong><\/p>\n

Construction on Teraco\u2019s CT2 data centre began in March 2020 and has continued in line with Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

Teraco said it has set a targeted completion date of Q3 2021 for the new data centre.<\/p>\n

The facility will have eight data halls which span a total of 8,000 square metres of usable floor space.<\/p>\n

This will double the existing data centre capacity Teraco has in the Cape Town region.<\/p>\n

Teraco also confirmed that Internet exchange point NAPAfrica, which is Africa\u2019s largest Internet exchange, will be deployed in the CT2 facility.<\/p>\n

Teraco provided MyBroadband with photographs of the progress made in building the CT2 data centre, as well as renders of what it will look like when completed.<\/p>\n

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This article was first published by MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Read: Teraco is building a second data centre in Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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