A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides an effective model for businesses seeking to reduce complexity, improve control, and ensure data sovereignty, all while maintaining high levels of performance and flexibility. It enables businesses to simplify infrastructure management, reduce operational overhead, and ensure greater agility in adapting to technical and architectural demands.
Routed’s Virtual Private Cloud, hosted on our assets and delivered out of Teraco’s data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, offers the power and scalability of public cloud combined with the security, control, and transparency of a private cloud.
Key Benefits of Routed’s Virtual Private Cloud
Seamless integration
For customers running VMware on-premise, Routed’s Cloud is designed to become a true extension of their environment. Deep VMware integration allows seamless workload migration and protection between on-prem and cloud environments, with plugins into the client’s vCenter and a familiar interface. This tight integration eliminates the need for costly application changes and ensures architectural continuity.
Performance
Because Routed offers a Private Cloud and can access economies of scale, we always maintain sufficient capacity for customers to be able to run additional programs or applications as needed. Moreover, the lifecycle of the hardware it all runs on is managed very stringently, and we ensure that we refresh our hardware well before warranties expire. This means our customers benefit from the latest technology, superior warranties, and the best efficiency gains.
Sovereignty and local support
Routed’s Private Cloud is built, run and operated by local South African employees, and all data is hosted within the boundaries of the country. This local foundation means Routed avoids exposure to international laws like the US Patriot Act, ensuring data sovereignty and keeping client information securely within South Africa. Our support is also locally based, ensuring responsive and relevant assistance when needed.
Predictable and transparent pricing
Routed’s platform’s key differentiator is that it offers customers predictable costs, particularly when compared to a hyperscale data centre. Hyperscaler costs are often unpredictable, with hidden charges like egress fees whenever data is downloaded from the cloud. Routed, on the other hand, makes budgeting and forecasting simpler upfront ensuring no hidden costs or “bill shocks” over time.
Flexible network topologies
Our infrastructure supports flexible networking topologies that can accommodate unique customer requirements – whether for segmentation, routing, or hybrid integration. For customers with a presence in Teraco, we offer direct cross connects to their existing cabinets, enabling seamless extension into our cloud. If the equipment is in the same facility, connectivity is fast and efficient. Routed also remains ISP-neutral, allowing clients to choose their preferred provider.
This flexibility ensures Routed’s Private Cloud can adapt to complex enterprise environments and specific architecture preferences, making it easier for customers to extend or modify their infrastructure as their business evolves.
Use Cases
Infrastructure as a Service (DC Replacement)
We build our infrastructure once and then make it available across our customer base. This means that a customer can easily subscribe to new services, choose what they want, opt out of what they do not, and have it delivered immediately.
We distribute infrastructure as a service through what we call a tenant’s virtual data centre. In this setup, the compute resource the customer is subscribing to is the virtual data centre itself – and within that virtual data centre, we support flexible networking topologies that can be tailored to the customer’s environment.
Data Centre Expansion
When a customer already has an on-premise data centre but requires additional capacity, we enable them to connect their environment into our Cloud, and they can then use Routed’s infrastructure for the extra capacity they need.
In cases where the on-premise hardware has reached end-of-life, customers can avoid the cost and complexity of buying, building, and managing new infrastructure. Instead, they simply subscribe to our service. This turns what would have been a capital expenditure into an operating expense, with the infrastructure consumed and paid for as a service.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)
Routed’s approach to business continuity and disaster recovery ensures that clients are equipped with robust solutions to mitigate downtime, protect data integrity, and maintain operational efficiency.
If a customer’s on-premise facilities go down, the Routed Cloud can act as an extension or a disaster recovery site, with replication from ground to cloud. We offer an air-gapped environment for this, as well as the ability to monitor and manage capacity within the disaster recovery setup.
Customers can use Routed’s Cloud as their secondary site while their on-premise remains the primary – or, in the albeit unlikely event of a full-site failure, Routed has the ability to replicate systems to its Cape Town site, and vice versa.
Support and service
All Routed clients receive ongoing infrastructure and platform support, covered by SLAs. This includes break-fix support for virtual machines, networking, and other foundational services, ensuring operational continuity and reducing support overhead for in-house teams.
