Africa Data Centres, part of pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies, has formed a commercial partnership with Blue Turtle, a South African enterprise IT solutions provider, to deploy colocation services in its Cape Town and Midrand data centres.
The partnership enables Blue Turtle to deploy several racks, providing its enterprise clients with access to world-class, secure, and compliant colocation and private hosted cloud services. Additionally, this collaboration will also allow South African businesses the opportunity to rapidly embrace cloud computing, digital transformation, and data-driven operations in a scalable, compliant, and high-performance colocation environment.
Africa Data Centres says that this agreement marks a significant step in expanding South Africa’s enterprise cloud and digital infrastructure ecosystem, enabling secure, scalable and compliant colocation and private hosted cloud services for local enterprise customers.
By providing high-availability colocation services backed by regulatory compliance, low-latency connectivity, and disaster recovery capabilities, the partnership is expected to support enterprises in modernising their IT environments, enhancing security posture, and meeting evolving data sovereignty requirements under laws such as South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
In addition, Africa Data Centres, which operates the continent’s largest interconnected, vendor and cloud-neutral data centre platform, says it will benefit from Blue Turtle’s strong go-to-market capabilities and proven track record in delivering IT solutions to South Africa’s enterprise sector.
Jan Hitge, Head of Managed Services at Blue Turtle, says: “This partnership enables us to offer customers trusted colocation and private cloud solutions in two of South Africa’s most strategic data centre locations.” He continues: “As enterprise clients increasingly look for secure, scalable, and cost-efficient alternatives to on-premises infrastructure, we anticipate strong market uptake – a confidence reflected in the accelerated ramp-up timeline we’ve committed to.”
Adil El Youssefi, CEO of Africa Data Centres, adds: “Blue Turtle brings a strong client base and the ability to scale rapidly, making them an ideal partner in our mission to deliver secure, resilient, and sustainable digital infrastructure across South Africa.”
