Teraco Data Environments is a carrier-, cloud- and vendor-neutral data centre provider founded by Tim Parsonson and Lex van Wyk in 2008. On 1 August 2022, Digital Realty announced that it had completed the purchase of a majority stake in Teraco, previously controlled by Berkshire Partners, Permira and a group of investors.[1][2]
Overview
As the local telecommunications market began to deregulate, Teraco's founders recognised an opportunity for a truly vendor-neutral data centre offering in South Africa.[3][4]
Teraco built Africa's largest data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.[5][6][7] In 2012, the company created NAPAfrica, a fully funded non-profit neutral Internet eXchange Point (IXP).[8][9][10] Teraco has additional data centres in Durban and Cape Town.[11]
Peering by NAPAfrica
Xneelo, South Africa's web hosting company, partnered with this company.[12][13][14][15]Telkom peered with NAPAfrica through its Openserve wholesale and network division in 2016.[16] Clients will be able to use the Microsoft service through this company.[17] The telecom operator, Angola Cables, peered with this company in 2017.[18]
