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Teraco appoints top Data Centre expert as infrastructure grows
Added: (Wed Oct 21 2009)
Cape Town, SA, October 2009 – Teraco Data Environments, the only vendor and carrier neutral Data Centre in South Africa, has announced the appointment of Gys Geyser as its new Operations Head from 1 October.
Geyser joins Teraco from Vodacom where he was the Executive Head of IP Platforms. Leveraging a decade of experience in the Data Centre industry, Geyser will be responsible for managing the building and facilities of Teraco’s Data Centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg, as well as further improving infrastructure and systems as new capacity comes on stream.
His experience of directing senior technical teams will aid the management team in the expansion of Teraco’s existing operations, and build-out of new facilities. Teraco operates a colocation facility in the Cape Town southern suburb of Rondebosch, which it launched in February 2009, with a second phase expansion already planned. Teraco will launch a Data Centre in Isando on the east side of Johannesburg in early 2010, expanded to 3 500 square metres over several phases. Teraco is also currently looking at possible sites in Durban for a third Data Centre facility.
Prior to Vodacom, Geyser was the Senior Manager of Operations at Internet Solutions, where his responsibilities included responsibility for the company’s Data Centre and hosting infrastructure and business continuity.
“We are very glad to welcome Gys to the Teraco team. He is the quintessential ‘safe pair of hands’, having overseen some of this country’s most sophisticated technology environments. He also has a proven track record in managing people and infrastructure, which is a rare and valuable combination,” says Lex van Wyk, managing director of Teraco. “Our business is growing fast, and we can make no compromise in ensuring we have the right people to deliver on our customers’ expectations of complete competence and reliability.”
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 Data Centre 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, Mobile: +27 83 799 2159, lex@teraco.co.za
•Elzaan Rohde – Account Director, Sentient Communications, Tel: +27 21 422 4275, elzaan@sentientcommunications.co.za