Brendan Dysel

Head Of Technical Infrastructure at Teraco – A Digital Realty Company

Brendan Dysel has a diverse work experience spanning over several industries. Brendan began their career at Continental Tyres, where they worked as an Electrical Apprentice and then progressed to the role of an Electrical Technician. Brendan then moved on to Royal Opera House, where they served as an Engineering Team Supervisor, responsible for managing the onsite engineering team and overseeing planned maintenance activities.

Afterwards, Dysel joined Johnson Controls as a Technical Facilities Manager for the Morgan Stanley Data Centre at Heathrow. In this role, they supervised the onsite engineering team and implemented an asset register and a planned preventative maintenance system.

Later, Dysel joined Credit Suisse as a Data Centre Engineering Manager - Vice President. Brendan played a significant role in the design and fit-out of the Tier 4 Slough Data Centre, overseeing a 12MVA capacity with a 6MVA IT load.

Most recently, Dysel has been working at Teraco – A Digital Realty Company. Brendan has held various roles, including Head of Facilities at Teraco Data Environments, Head of Data Centre Systems, Head of Infrastructure Management, and currently serves as the Head of Technical Infrastructure. In these positions, Dysel has been responsible for managing engineering, operational, and client service level agreements (SLAs) for all Teraco Data Centres. Brendan has implemented systems supporting client SLAs, maintained asset registers, and established a planned preventative maintenance system.

Overall, Brendan Dysel has a wealth of experience in technical infrastructure management, data centre systems, and facility operations, with a strong focus on ensuring client satisfaction and maintaining critical engineering infrastructure.

Brendan Dysel attended Port Rex Technical High School from 1989 to 1993, where they studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering. After completing high school, they pursued further education at Eastern Cape Technikon from 1995 to 1998, majoring in Electrical Engineering. No degree was specified for either educational institution.

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Teraco – A Digital Realty Company

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As business transforms in the growing digital economy, Teraco’s carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centres provide a future-ready solution to all that today’s bandwidth-hungry applications require. Providing business’ with access to the digital edge, Teraco takes the enterprise to the on-ramp where clouds, networks, people and devices connect. Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is an essential part of the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy with its world-class data centre infrastructure and network dense ecosystems. Its ever-expanding ecosystems move Teraco beyond colocation 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, Teraco provides a highly secure, flexible and resilient home for digital organisations. Teraco acknowledges legacy IT architecture can’t meet today’s digital demands. Tomorrow's success is built around the digital edge and rearchitecting the enterprise network and IT infrastructure. The data centre is purpose-built and operated to global best practice. With an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Teraco offers all its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable and resilient data centre services through its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town facilities. Teraco is part-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering clients a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across >285 data centres in 50 metros and 26 countries on six continents – and a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira.


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