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AFRICA DATA CENTRES AND CSSI SOUTH AFRICA PARTNER TO BRING EXPANDED DATA STORAGE CAPABILITIES TO SOUTH AFRICAN ENTERPRISES
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader of African heritage, has entered a strategic partnership with CSSi SA, a leading cloud and VM provider and distributor of data storage, servers and data centre equipment. Under the agreement, CSSi SA have structured an alliance to deploy racks and provide data sovereignty for South African customers, with up to three tiers of redundancy between three different data centre footprints.
Located at Africa Data Centres’ facilities in Cape Town( CPT1) and Johannesburg( JHB1) and connected with 100GB links to CipherVault in Midrand, the availability of these racks will meet the growing local demand for redundant, reliable and nextgeneration data storage and colocation services.
“ CSSi SA’ s expansion into our South African facilities underscores the critical need for secure, high-performance data storage solutions in an era of rapid Digital Transformation,” said Adil El Youssefi, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Data Centres.
CSSi SA’ s data centre – CipherVault in Midrand, Johannesburg – will connect to Africa Data Centres’ JHB1 facility, providing seamless connectivity and redundant solutions to enhance operational efficiency and ensure business continuity.
“ The ability to leverage scalability, partner with the best data centre provider today in South Africa and use economies of scale which allow us to reduce the cost of data centre operations for our customers was always the key reason for this partnership, we are honoured to have a partner such as ADC,” said James Grcic, CEO of CSSi SA.
The new partnership capacity framework cements a closer collaboration between the two companies, with a focus on increasing industrial capacity for genset orders whilst accelerating joint innovation across the data centre and critical power markets. It comes 12 months after AVK announced a record-breaking year of sales and collaboration between the two companies, with 2024 seeing AVK deliver its 500 mtu generator from Rolls- Royce. The HVO-ready generators were primarily sold into the data centre sector.
Vittorio Pierangeli, Senior VP Power Generation at Rolls-Royce, and Ben Pritchard, CEO of AVK
AVK, one of the UK’ s fastest-growing suppliers of innovative power solutions for data centres in Europe, and the Rolls- Royce division Power Systems, a leader in world-class power solutions, have announced a new multi-year capacity framework as an addition to their established System Integrator Agreement.
AVK AND ROLLS-ROYCE ACCELERATE INNOVATION AND BOOST SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE WITH NEW CAPACITY AGREEMENT
Under the new Memorandum of Understanding( MoU) agreed between the parties, their relationship moves considerably beyond 2024’ s achievements to become a strategically integrated, longer‐term alliance. The new framework formalises a five‐year capacity partnership between Rolls‐Royce Power Solutions and AVK, with Rolls-Royce increasing supply and AVK committing to order volume.
A parallel six-year master framework designates AVK as the exclusive System Integrator for mtu generator sets across the UK and Ireland until 2031. The agreement defines commercial terms, pricing, delivery lead times, compliance standards and anti‐bribery obligations, positioning AVK as Rolls‐Royce’ s strategic partner for turnkey, mission‐critical energy solutions.
As a result, there will be stronger alignment across production planning, product roadmaps and go‐to‐market activity, accelerating innovation and boosting the resilience of supply chains.
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