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CORRECTION: Africa Data Centres and Blue Turtle partner to accelerate South Africa's digital infrastructure and cloud transformation

CORRECTION: Africa Data Centres and Blue Turtle partner to accelerate South Africa's digital infrastructure and cloud transformation

Zawya19-06-2025

Africa Data Centres (https://www.AfricaDataCentres.com), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has formed a commercial partnership with Blue Turtle, one of South Africa's leading enterprise IT solutions providers, to deploy colocation services in the Cape Town and Midrand data centres. 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.
The partnership enables Blue Turtle to deploy several racks, providing their 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.
'This partnership enables us to offer customers trusted colocation and private cloud solutions in two of South Africa's most strategic data centre locations,' said Jan Hitge, Head of Managed Services at Blue Turtle. '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.'
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).
'This agreement is about more than just filling racks; it's about enabling digital transformation across the economy,' said Adil El Youssefi, CEO of Africa Data Centres. '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. As demand for trusted infrastructure continues to climb, we will work towards this partnership evolving to support broader cloud initiatives, edge computing, and AI-ready infrastructure deployments.'
With commercial partners like Blue Turtle, Africa Data Centres continues to expand its footprint and impact across the continent, powering the next phase of enterprise transformation and solidifying South Africa's status as a leading technology hub in Africa.
Africa Data Centres, which operates the continent's largest interconnected, vendor- and cloud-neutral data centre platform, 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.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Data Centres.
Africa Data Centres:
Africa Data Centres owns and operates Africa's largest network of interconnected, carrier and cloud-neutral data centre facilities. Bringing international experts to the pan-African market, Africa Data Centres is a trusted partner for rapid and secure data centre services and interconnections across Africa. Strategically located in South, East and West Africa our world-class data centre facilities provide a home for all business-critical data for Africa's small, medium and large enterprises and global hyperscale customers. https://www.AfricaDataCentres.com

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