By the Blouin News Technology staff

Africa is upping its data center ante

by in Enterprise Tech.

Data center racks. Source: Sean Ellis/flickr

Data center racks. Source: Sean Ellis/flickr

Africa’s data center market has gotten some notable boosts in the past few weeks, most recently when Teraco, the continent’s sole vendor neutral data center company, moved to expand its existing colocation facility in Isando, South Africa. Now, the location is being touted as Africa’s largest data center, thanks to this addition; it aims to address advancing issues including cloud computing, support for network providers, and managed services.

The expansion follows last month’s announcement by a Nigerian telecom of the opening of the Tier III Lekki Data Center. MainOne said that the data center targets elevating internet infrastructure to address similar issues including cloud, disaster recovery, and colocation in West Africa…

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