Sunday 17 June 2012

The colocation value proposition


COLOCATION …provides secure, cost-effective data centre infrastructure for your business-critical IT and hosting infrastructures. 


WHY CHOOSE COLOCATION?
  •      A practical balance between cost and security
  •      High availability infrastructure
  •      Carrier diversity
  •      Low cost interconnects
  •      Round the clock access to an experienced support team
 
HOW COLOCATION SERVICES WORK: A data centre is one of the most critical elements of your IT infrastructure. However, such a complex facility can be extremely costly to build, operate and maintain. Colocation at a vendor neutral data centres will save you considerable cost, time and resources, and brings you the benefit of advanced infrastructure and the widest choice of connectivity available.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS 
  • Reduces costs and complexity
  • Maximises ROI
  • Reliable, dependable and secure:
  • Resilient power and cooling systems
  • Premium-grade physical security
    Range of services providing new technologies and competitive business advantage:
  • Choose only the services you need – cabinets, power, remote management, open colocation, secure dedicated caged spac
  • Flexible scalability

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX)

In terms of population and landmass, Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Amazingly, a majority of the 1.5 billion people living on the continent survive every day with little to no access to electricity.” (Africa – a continent in shadows. 2009)

Due to the lack of reliable power and infrastructure around Africa, an opportunity exists to establish South Africa as a central hub from which international connectivity and cloud services providers are able to support the rest of Africa’s needs.

Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) allows South African and African cloud providers to host their platform in the most fibre connected and energy resilient data centre environments in Africa. Teraco’s provision of a dedicated physical infrastructure environment opens up South African infrastructure to the rest of the continent.

Together with existing benefits like free peering through NAPAfrica, cost effective interconnects, access to major carriers (local and international), access to content providers, resilient power, 24/7 support and the highest levels of security, Teraco is the natural choice of data centre environment to colocate cloud services.

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