The amount of businesses embracing an online strategy is driving an urgent review of legacy infrastructure according to Michele McCann, business development manager, Teraco. Following her panel discussion at this year’s WAN Summit in New York City, McCann says that the enterprise sector is being driven to consolidate their infrastructure into a colocation centre to benefit from a highly connected environment.

Teraco was founded in 2008, Teraco Data Environments is the first provider of resilient, carrier, cloud and vendor neutral data environments in South Africa. It is also the biggest data centre in Africa.

“Interconnection colocation facilities globally have seen massive growth due to virtualisation of infrastructure, which requires an always powered up facility and access to multiple network operators to service many countries or regions through a single deployment,” says McCann. “These key changes have also been driven by investment from global content and cloud operators as users are now able to get online and consume whatever content they like, when they like, which was not possible five years ago.”

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