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The facility will host up to 20,000 physical servers in 1,000 sq m.
The Vodacom Business data centre is located in Johannesburg and offers Web hosting, server co-location, managed storage and backup systems. According to, the 1 000m2 facility will assist in business continuity as it will ensure businesses can run their operations without having to worry if their IT system crashes.
Wally Beelders, executive director for Vodacom Business, said: "Vodacom has spent approximately a year-and-a-half developing a full telecommunications strategy in line with what Vodafone is doing elsewhere in the world. The main reasoning behind Vodacom's decision to establish the data centre is to enable customers to rethink their network architecture.
The facility will host up to 20,000 physical servers in 1,000 sq m.
The Vodacom Business data centre is located in Johannesburg and offers Web hosting, server co-location, managed storage and backup systems. According to, the 1 000m2 facility will assist in business continuity as it will ensure businesses can run their operations without having to worry if their IT system crashes.
Wally Beelders, executive director for Vodacom Business, said: "Vodacom has spent approximately a year-and-a-half developing a full telecommunications strategy in line with what Vodafone is doing elsewhere in the world. The main reasoning behind Vodacom's decision to establish the data centre is to enable customers to rethink their network architecture.