Teraco – A Digital Realty Company
Ridwaan Sookharia has a diverse work experience spanning over 20 years. Ridwaan began their career as a Technical Support at ALSTOM from 1999 to 2003. Ridwaan then worked as an IT Helpdesk Officer at the Engineering Council of South Africa from 2003 to 2006, where they were responsible for hardware and software maintenance, network administration, and user training. Ridwaan joined the Standard Bank of South Africa in 2006, where they held various roles including IT Support Analyst, IT Executive Support & Team Leader, Service Delivery IT Manager - Desktop Support, IT Production Manager / Service Delivery Manager, and Head: Market Data South Africa and Dealing Infrastructure. In these roles, they gained experience in incident management, change management, problem management, release management, and service delivery. Ridwaan also managed crisis situations and ensured system availability. In 2010, Ridwaan volunteered as a Media and IT Volunteer for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Ridwaan then moved to Standard Bank Group in 2018, where they held the positions of Head of Information Technology Operations and later Head Infrastructure and Operations. In these roles, they provided strategic and operational leadership, managed a large budget, and supported cost reduction efforts. Ridwaan is currently working as the Head of Data Centre Operations at Teraco Data Environments.
Ridwaan Sookharia completed a Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP®) program at EXIN in 2021. Prior to that, they obtained a National Diploma in Information Technology from Wits Technikon in 1999, where they studied from 1998 to 1999. Additionally, they attended Lawson Brown from 1992 to 1997, but the degree and field of study details are unknown.
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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.