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South African information technology firm Dimension Data has announced plans to quadruple the size of its data centre business to US$4 billion in the next five years.
The company said its current business has significant presence in all major regions, however it plans to “aggressively grow and scale these businesses both organically and through acquisition”.
Dimension Data currently operates 12 public cloud locations around the world, with further locations coming online in the next few quarters.
“In all regions and with all clients, large and small, there is an urgent need to undergo the transformation process needed to not only achieve better data centre performance and manage disruptive technologies but also to become progressively greener, in terms of environmental custodianship,” said Dimension Steve Joubert, group executive for the Data Centre Business Unit at Dimension Data.
“Although all our markets are targeting exponential growth, our analysis shows there’ll be higher rates of growth in mature regions such as Europe and North America, given the legacy data centre investments in those geographies that require transformation. For many organisations, the most cost effective way of navigating the future will be through IT-as-a-Service, managed services, and outsourcing.”
He said that cloud 3.0, or everything as a service, has transformed the data centre industry forever, making the data facilities “business response centres”.
“Getting there requires an integrated approach in the secure delivery of workloads and applications across the traditional data centre, cloud and the enterprise network, all of which make up the next-generation data centre,” he said.
“This calls for a level and range of capabilities that the average organisation doesn’t have and shouldn’t need to build or acquire when all the considerable benefits of cloud, networking, security, and systems integration experience as well as economies of scale and a global footprint are available through Dimension Data.”
HumanIPO reported last week the company had acquired 100 per cent of United States (US)-based technology solutions provider Nexus.
