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DiData to quadruple data centre business

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 24 Apr 2014
DiData says the data centre landscape has changed forever.
DiData says the data centre landscape has changed forever.

Dimension Data (DiData), SA's $6 billion global IT solutions provider, plans to quadruple the size of its data centre business - to $4 billion - in the next five years.

DiData's existing data centre business has a presence in all major regions, and the company is now looking to "aggressively grow and scale these businesses both organically and through acquisition".

Steve Joubert, group executive for DiData's data centre business, says there is an urgent need to undergo the transformation process. "[This is] needed to not only achieve better data centre performance and manage disruptive technologies, but also to become progressively greener, in terms of environmental custodianship."

He says the company's analysis shows there will be higher rates of growth in mature regions like Europe and North America, given the legacy data centre investments in those geographies that require transformation. "For many organisations, the most cost-effective way of navigating the future will be through IT-as-a-service, managed services, and outsourcing."

Cloud, virtualisation 3.0, and software-defined everything have changed the data centre landscape forever, says Joubert. "New workloads, users, connected devices, and locations are compounding the pressure on the data centre."

Next-gen centres

Joubert says DiData will need to take an integrated approach if the company wants to help clients deal with the new landscape in a way that helps their data centre become a "business response centre" that is capable of being agile and speedy when the business needs it to be.

The secure delivery of workloads and applications across the traditional data centre, cloud and the enterprise network, all make up the next-generation data centre, he says.

DiData currently operates 12 public cloud locations around the world. The company says further locations will come online in the next few quarters. DiData also extends its cloud locations through its OneCloud partners.

DiData has membership to the NTT Group, the world's second largest provider of data centre space with about 243 secure data centres globally.

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