{"id":514224,"date":"2021-08-19T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=514224"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:40:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:40:50","slug":"teraco-completes-new-data-centre-facility-in-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/514224\/teraco-completes-new-data-centre-facility-in-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Teraco completes new data centre facility in Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data centre provider Teraco has completed work on its JB3 data centre facility, located within its Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>JB3 comprises 45,000 square metres of building structure, 12,000 square metres of data hall space, and 29MW of critical power load.<\/p>\n<p>When combined with the existing Isando Campus facilities, the critical power load totals 40MW across the campus data centre footprint with room for further growth, Teraco said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Jan Hnizdo said that the latest Isando Campus expansion meets the growing demand by both cloud providers and enterprises for data centre capacity.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-514228 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teraco-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hnizdo said that enterprises are now accelerating their digital transformation strategies and focusing on cloud adoption strategies. This was evidenced by Teraco seeing continued growth in cloud adoption strategies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our clients use the data centre to scale their IT infrastructure, adopt hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and interconnect with strategic business partners within the Teraco ecosystem. Over the last year, we have seen a 48% increase in direct interconnects to public cloud on-ramps, reflecting the increasing trend of cloud adoption by enterprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/511876\/adapt-it-chief-executive-steps-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adapt IT chief executive steps down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centre provider Teraco has completed work on its JB3 data centre facility, located within its Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":514226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,40],"class_list":["post-514224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514272,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514224\/revisions\/514272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}