About – Advanced Cloud Technologies

About Us

Advanced Cloud Technologies is more than a Cloud Provider. We are an essential partner for your business. We assist institutions to effortlessly transition into the technology-driven world of “as-a-service” solutions.

Data Centre Presence & Connectivity

Here is a more detailed view of the connectivity between our datacentres: Advanced Cloud Technologies provides cloud-neutral Infrastructure as a Service Data Centres, and with over 300 cross-connects, is a leader in South Africa’s most interconnected data centre hub, Teraco SA. As a solid provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data HWaaS in South Africa, Advanced Cloud Technologies brings global content closer to the digital edge.

With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network dense ecosystems, Advanced Cloud Technologies forms a vital part of our client’s Server and Internet backbone and is an essential part of the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Its ever-expanding ecosystems move Advanced Cloud Technologies beyond Public Cloud and firmly establish it as an open marketplace for digital growth and innovation. Discovering new business partners, making strategic interconnection choices, on-ramping to your choice of cloud, and reaching new markets globally – Advanced Cloud Technologies provides a highly secure, flexible, and resilient home for digital organisations the world over.

Purpose-built and operated to global best practice by expert solutions architects with an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Advanced Cloud Technologies offers all its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable, and resilient data centre services through its Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town facilities, hosted at Teraco Facilities

Environment

Concurrently maintainable data centre designs with elements for fault tolerance built into asset levels.
Independent Monitoring at Server Levels
Customisable Hosting Service Level agreements

Security

Highly available Firewall stacks
Antigen, Anti-Ransomware, and bleeding-edge data and packet scanners at all edge networks.
Realtime Traffic Monitoring and AI Analysis action on breach or sinkhole traffic across TCP and UDP Protocols
Strict access control and change management
Continuous video surveillance

Infrastucture

18.3 Petabytes of pure flash and SSD Storage Appliances, leveraging NVME fast cache for High IO workloads
More than 45000 Compute cores, across Multiple nodes, in separate highly available datacentre locations
More than 50TB RAM (Random Access Memory) utilizing the latest in GDDR4 Technology
Industry-Leading Hyper Visor Operating systems, with detail to secure protocols and AES encryption across all Virtualized Operating Systems
Disaster Recovery and Real-Time replication to 3 dedicated DR facilities, with the ability to restore and recover in DR in under 10 Minutes.

Provisioning

Service Provisioning is available in managed multi-tenant Racks or private Node & Storage
Facilities are hardware application agnostic
Unrestricted choice of network operators or ISP’s. for client to datacentre SDWAN or Interconnects.
Planned preventative maintenance performed following manufacturer’s recommendations and industry best practices, with no interruption to services.
Predictive maintenance is based on information collected through the building monitoring system (BMS).
Remote hands are available 24/7.

Connectivity

All major network operators present in the facilities, and further can terminate to all Advanced Cloud Technologies Hardware Racks
Any point within the data centre can be connected to any other via multiple resilient routes
Cabling for single and multimode fibre, 1GBps, 10GBps or 100GBps

Monitoring

Dual independent building monitoring systems (BMS) ensure concurrent maintainability
Alarms and early warning messages alert technicians 24×7
All areas have 24×7 intelligent monitoring and anomaly sensors

Certifications

Our team is skilled, experienced, and certified in various technologies and sectors of the I.C.T Industry. Our certifications with some of the most prolific suppliers and service providers elevate us above our competitors. All our team members have an advanced background in the I.C.T and Technology industry and a firm understanding of the processes and procedures. This existing skillset is enhanced through continuous study, certification and hands-on training and experience.

Some of the certifications currently held:

To find out more about Advanced Cloud Technologies data centre facilities and how to position your critical infrastructure where the edge and digital ecosystems are evolving, simply contact an Advanced Cloud Technologies sales executive.