Logicalis Connects High-Density Data Centre and Hybrid Cloud Into JANET

Cloud Services and High Density Data Centre Hosting Now Available to 18m Education User Community

SLOUGH, England, December 23, 2010 - International solutions provider,
Logicalis (www.uk.logicalis.com/), today announced that its
high-density data centre (HDDC) and range of Made to Measure cloud services
are now natively connected into JANET (www.ja.net/), the network
dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. Logicalis'
connection to the unique high bandwidth academic network will provide a range
of data centre and cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service,
application hosting for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) servicing the
education community, through to high density hosting of virtualisation and
supercomputing environments.

The JANET network connects UK universities, Further Education (FE)
colleges, Research Councils, specialist colleges and Adult and Community
Learning providers, providing a shared network backbone and high performance
computing facilities at a national and international level.

Chris Gabriel, director of solutions and marketing for Logicalis UK,
commented; "Logicalis has been a trusted and innovative partner of the UK
higher and further education sector for many years, and bringing our data
centre and cloud services to the JANET user community further demonstrates
what can be achieved when the public and private sector work together. As
well as the services we have made available today, we also want to reach out
across the sector and to other service providers, such as ISVs, to maximise
what we have built for the benefit of the entire education community."

Tim Kidd, operations director for JANET(UK), commented; "The connection
into Logicalis' high density data centre and cloud services will provide
education institutions with a range of services dedicated to high performance
ICT environments and, through cloud, enable these to scale on-demand. It is
of benefit to the sector to have partners bring innovative new services and
solutions onto JANET, and we are pleased to have Logicalis' data centre and
cloud services available to the entire community."

Logicalis' HDDC opened in June 2010, along with the launch of its cloud
services, as part of a GBP10million investment programme. A Tier 3+ facility
with the capability to support 4 to 32kw racks anywhere within the data
centre, it provides a Made to Measure home for high performance virtual
infrastructures and high power supercomputing environments. Services
available to the community include Infrastructure as a Service (compute,
storage, and network), on-demand disaster recovery, Cloud Hosting, and
Cooperative Cloud - enabling users to dual-locate ICT infrastructure between
their own site and Logicalis' facility.

Simon Daykin, CTO at Logicalis, adds; "Many service providers peer with
the JANET network, but we have gone much further by natively extending JANET
into our data centre and cloud environment. This gives JANET's users and our
existing education customers the ability to extend their campus into our
environment and benefit from highly virtualised cloud services and a
high-density infrastructure, without the constraints of the Internet or the
capital costs incurred through building a shared private network.

"JANET is one of the longest-running examples of successful shared
network services in the public sector, to which Logicalis is committed to
bringing its expertise and investment in shared and hosted ICT services,
helping facilitate and contribute to its future collaboration and
innovation."

Logicalis is piloting a number of solutions and services into the
education sector, including hosting of open source virtual learning
environments such as Moodle, as well as shared and hybrid cloud
infrastructure services which enable institutions to move part of their
internal infrastructure to a hosting provider.

Logicalis will be opening its doors to education ICT and business
professionals on February 23rd at an ICT in Education Innovation Day to
explore how cloud computing and data centre services may change the thinking
behind infrastructure and services deployment.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior
breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications & collaboration; data
centre; and professional and managed services.

Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly
trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex
ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public
sector customers.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $3.7
billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock
Exchanges.

For more information, visit www.uk.logicalis.com.

About JANET (UK)

JANET(UK) manages the operation and development of JANET on
behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) for the UK Further and
Higher Education Funding Councils. JISC also works in partnership with the
Research Councils. JANET(UK) is government funded, with the primary aim of
providing and developing a network infrastructure that meets the needs of the
education and research communities.

    Contact:

    Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning
    Cohesive Communications
    T: +44(0)1291-626200
    E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com

Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning, Cohesive Communications, T: +44(0)1291-626200, E: logicalis at cohesive.uk.com