Demystifying data centres

This is a short video from back in 2013 by CNBC Africa which was created at one of South Africa's data centre's Teraco.

A data centre is a dedicated space where companies can keep and operate most of the ICT infrastructure that supports their business - so servers and storage equipment that run application software and process and store data. These have always been quite mysterious places to the general public, because not a lot of people get to see what happens inside them -- until now that is. Teraco is one provider of vendor-neutral data storage, and they let Tech Busters' Toby inside one of their locations to demystify Data centres.

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