Teraco Sets Sail for EMEA Customers

Online, September 23, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Cape Town, South Africa: 20 July 2009 - Teraco Data Environments, the first vendor neutral colocation facility in South Africa, is to co-sponsor a boat in the Silicon Cup with Guy Willner, co-founder and CEO of IXEurope (now Equinix Europe) who recently joined Teraco's board. Its contender will be called Mint Julep.

The Silicon Cup is the largest sailing event for the IT industry, giving hundreds of industry professionals across Europe, the Middle East and African (EMEA) region an opportunity to entertain customers, reward top-performing employees, build new contacts and support worthy causes through fundraising events. Now in its tenth year, this prestigious 2009 event will take place from 17 - 18 September in Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England.

The regatta, which in this tenth year is sponsored by Equinix, a global provider of data center services, will pit Teraco's considerable combined maritime expertise against the might of the English Channel.

"Attending this well-established IT networking event allows us to showcase our vendor neutral business on a global stage where many EMEA headquarters are based, and perhaps demonstrate that we know a little bit about sailing too in South Africa," said Tim Parsonson, Group CEO of Teraco Data Environments.

The recent liberalisation of South Africa's telecoms space and the arrival of six new international broadband cables in the next two years has created a new Internet world that will transform the way local companies connect their networks and conduct business.

Teraco's vendor neutral data centre enables companies, ISPs, value-added network services providers and carriers to take advantage of these benefits immediately.

The freedom and flexibility of unrestricted interconnect between companies within the data centre enables companies to easily connect to and switch between service providers of their choice. The truly neutral new environment creates new opportunities for partnerships between providers, devoid of any conflict of interest with Teraco. The attraction of a growing number of blue chip companies to the vendor neutral data centre model enables carriers to reach new markets.

"While South Africa is only one year into its telecoms liberalisation, overseas, businesses like Equinix and Telehouse have become exciting hubs for carriers and service providers to do business. We look forward to building Teraco into a similarly successful venture with the contribution of Guy's considerable expertise," concludes Parsonson.

About Teraco Data Environments
Founded in 2007, Teraco is South Africa's first provider of vendor neutral data centres, with an absolute focus on building and operating its facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town to global best practice. Unrestricted choice of network and service provider allows customers to manage traffic to get better value or performance, and creates an open market for partnerships between customers, networks and service providers. Teraco data centres give customers a technically superior, physically more secure and lower cost environment for their information systems. Strictly enforced access control, uncompromised security, guaranteed power, advanced fire protection, efficient cooling and N+1 redundancy throughout ensures hardware availability. As business needs change, resources can be rapidly and flexibly scaled. Leading international investors and Treacle Private Equity, a black owned South African private equity group, back Teraco. The company is a Level 4 contributor (DTI Codes).
For more information please visit www.teraco.co.za.

Press Contacts
•Lex van Wyk - Managing Director, Teraco, Cell: +27 83 799 2159, [email protected]
•Elzaan Rohde - Account Director, Sentient Communications, Tel: +27 21 422 4275, [email protected]