DIDATA IN $250M US HOSTING DEAL

SOUTH African information technology group Dimension Data’s US division has entered a deal to deliver fully managed Web hosting to businesses in the northeast of the United States jointly with BandwidthCenter. BandwidthCenter Strategic Planning Vice President Pamela Mercanti said the deal was worth around $250m to Didata over the next 18 months. She said this was based on expectations that clients would buy hardware from Didata worth at least $250m – or about a quarter of the expected spending on servers alone. BandwidthCenter provides data centre services to corporations, universities and government agencies that need high-speed access to the Internet. – Reuters