Summary: Africa Data Centres (ADC) agreed to buy a Johannesburg data centre from Standard Bank. Built in 2010, the 65k sqm site has two buildings with up to eight 1.5k sqm modules each. It is not clear how much of the space has been built out but Africa Data Centres notes there is power and vacant space for significant expansion. ADC already operates a 3k sqm 7MW facility in the Midrand area of Johannesburg and recently confirmed plans to open a new 10MW data centre there in 2021. Its Midrand location has a planned total capacity of 45MW. The Standard Bank site gives it more expansion runway as well as a second location – about 10km to the north in Samrand. Standard Bank is pursuing a multi-cloud strategy. It plans to migrate production workloads toAWS, while its operational SAP banking systems will be hosted with Azure to improve customer experience and enable it to introduce new services. It was one of the first banks in the world to move its core banking systems onto SAP. It is in the early stages of cloud adoption and deciding which systems and processes will be moved first. Running its IT systems on-premise has proved to be expensive, and the bank expects to reduce its IT budget significantly in the longer-term with the move to cloud. It will presumably continue to be a tenant in the data centre while the migration is underway. Azure opened two South Africa regions a year ago, while AWS is set to open its first region in the country this year.
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