The strategic partnership connects three facilities, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Midrand, significantly lowering data Centre entry costs and accelerating AI readiness for enterprises and SMBs.
Africa Data Centers, a business of Cassava Technologies, has entered a strategic partnership with CSSi South Africa, a leading Cloud, VM Provider, and distributor of data storage equipment, to dramatically expand and secure data storage capabilities for South African enterprises.
This collaboration directly addresses the country’s critical need for data sovereignty and highly resilient infrastructure in an era of rapid digital transformation.
The core of the alliance is a technical structure designed to maximize uptime and regulatory compliance. CSSi SA will deploy racks within ADC’s facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg, which are then connected via high-capacity 100GB links to CSSi SA’s own CipherVault™ data centre in Midrand.
This unique configuration offers customers up to three tiers of redundancy across three distinct data centre footprints.
“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, CEO of Africa Data Centres. “This partnership reflects a shared commitment to addressing these challenges, ensuring that enterprises have the reliability and security required to manage growing data volumes while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment.”
The partnership is poised to significantly reduce the barrier to entry for businesses seeking world-class data centre services.
James Grcic, CEO of CSSi SA, highlighted the key advantage: combining the economies of scale from ADC with CSSi SA’s position as one of Africa’s largest distributors of storage hardware and servers.
“Today this means, clients have more flexibility, can scale on demand, and SMB’s and resellers can migrate into Data Centers with costs as much as 65–70% less than what they could have envisaged, with access to world-class infrastructure, as we move into offering AI and GPU solutions as another first in SA.”
By leveraging the combined infrastructure, clients benefit from seamless connectivity, enhanced operational efficiency, business continuity, and uptime guarantees exceeding 99.9%. The collaboration also strategically positions both companies to support the next wave of high-performance computing, including AI and GPU-driven solutions, for the local market.
“We see this partnership as unique, due to the growing demand for new hardware technology, with an insatiable demand for Data Sovereignty, uptime guarantees, and being able to offer world-class data Centre facilities with the lowest latency, nationwide network, and providing it right here in SA for South Africa,” El Youssefi concluded.
