New data center provides a developed hosting facility allowing its clients to focus on their core business.

VODACOM, a provider of GSM service, today announced that it has launched a new data centre, which has the capacity to host about 20 000 dedicated client servers or 650 000 virtual machines.

The company says that the Johannesburg-based 1000 square metre centre will allow companies to do away with their own costly data centres. It further says that the company has developed a hosting facility that will allow its clients to focus on their core business. All companies will be able to benefit from the hosting services now available due to the new data centre, regardless of their size, claims the company.

''IT operations are a crucial aspect of any company's operations. One of the main concerns is business continuity; companies rely on their information systems to run their operations,'' said Wally Beelders, the Executive Director of Vodacom Business. The Vodacom Business Data Centre caters for large corporates with vast IT infrastructure needs, to small businesses, including Small Medium Micro Enterprises (SMME) and Small Office Home Office (SoHo) businesses which need cost-effective hosting services. By making use of our data centre, clients will benefit from a safe and cost-effective data centre environment including back-up services that ensure the highest level of availability and network performance.'' addes Beelders.