Lex van Wyk

Teraco appoints new CEO and asserts its position as Africa's leading data centre

Teraco, has announced that Lex Van Wyk will step down as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 January 2020, and will be succeeded by Jan Hnizdo.
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Dec 2, 2019

Teraco's Lex Van Wyk steps down

Company confirms Jan Hnizdo will serve as CEO.
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Berkshire Partners to invest in Teraco Data Environments

Teraco Data Environments, Africa's leading provider of colocation data centre infrastructure, today announced that Berkshire Partners LLC, a Boston-based investment firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in the company.
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May 17, 2018

Buoyed by growth of African peering communities, NAPAfrica reaches top 15 of the world's largest IXPs

Teraco, Africa's only vendor neutral data centre, has announced that Africa's largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP), NAPAfrica is now ranked in the top 15 of the largest global IXPs.
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Apr 10, 2018

Teraco surpasses 12 000 interconnects and predicts more growth across Africa

Africa's only vendor neutral colocation data centre, Teraco, is Africa's most densely interconnected Data Centre with over 12,000 interconnects and growing at an impressive rate of ?500 interconnects per quarter. This means it has become very easy and efficient for Teraco's clients to do business and exchange information.
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Mar 27, 2018

Creating tomorrow's ecosystem: Teraco to expand its African offering

Teraco's CEO Lex van Wyk says that the African data centre market is still rising: "The potential for local growth is immense."
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Nov 6, 2017

Open Access celebrates five years of building Africa's Internet Ecosystem

Open Access, Africa's premier and exclusive, ICT networking event, hosted by Teraco, Africa's largest data centre and FibreCo Telecommunications, South Africa's premier open access Carrier Service Provider, celebrates five years of connecting people, technology and continents.
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Teraco becomes Microsoft Azure Express Route Connectivity Partner

Clients will be able to connect directly to Azure ExpressRoute via the Teraco Cloud Exchange in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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NAPAfrica celebrates five years as Africa's largest IXP

Lex van Wyk of Teraco says that NAPAfrica has made an undeniable impact and has forever changed the face of peering across the African continent.
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Mar 16, 2017

Teraco raises R1.2 billion in debt funding for further investment into South African data centres

South Africa, Teraco, Africa's largest carrier & cloud neutral colocation data centre and home to NAPAfrica, Africa's largest Internet exchange point (IXP), today announced that it has raised a medium-term funding facility from Absa amounting to R1.2 billion.