Why colocation – in Africa ?
--> All companies – large and small – have IT requirements. Especially today in the age of big data where everything is connected and all functions are automated and digitised and need to be online. Those enterprises that are large enough – such as banks, MNC’s, Telco’s, mining houses have been able to afford to build their own data centres to house their IT infrastructure. Others like SME’s which could not afford to (build their own DC’s) opted for a ‘server room’ or outsourced some of their requirements to a Cloud provider. There are numerous challenges for all companies in respect of how they approach ensuring the reliable provision of IT capacity to run their businesses. Some companies are not big enough to justify their own DC (scale) and there is a shortage of IT expertise (skill). Often times those that have the scale to build their own DC’s then run foul of not having the requisite skills to run the...