South African object storage

Keep your data protected. Keep it in South Africa.

Hexion delivers sovereign storage hosted in South Africa. Our S3 object storage, Shield and Vault, runs on NetApp StorageGRID; Instant and Velocity are performance tiers.

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NetApp StorageGRID object storage

Sovereign. Accessible. Protected.

Hexion Shield

Warm, immutable, S3-compatible storage in South Africa. You choose the storage location — Teraco JB1 (Isando), ADC JHB1 (Midrand), NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand) or OADC Parklands — for your copy of data, with always-ready access and no retrieval delay. Suits a second or third copy in a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

From R 350 / TB / month

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Four storage locations

Teraco JB1 (Isando)

Choose for your copy

ADC JHB1 (Midrand)

Choose for your copy

NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand)

Choose for your copy

OADC Parklands

Choose for your copy

You choose the location for your copy of data

Local data. Geo-diverse protection.

Hexion Vault

Two secure South African copies replicated between any two of our storage locations — Teraco JB1 (Isando), ADC JHB1 (Midrand), NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand) or OADC Parklands — designed for ransomware resilience, compliance and business continuity.

From R 450 / TB / month

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Replicate between any of our DCs

Teraco JB1 (Isando)

Available location

ADC JHB1 (Midrand)

Available location

NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand)

Available location

OADC Parklands

Available location

Choose any two locations for your replicated copies

Bring your own backup software

We'll handle the multi-site heavy lifting.

Already using Veeam, Commvault, Acronis or your own enterprise backup tools? Keep them. Hexion works with any S3-compatible backup software, such as Veeam, Commvault, Acronis and JetBackup. Hexion Vault plugs directly into your existing backup software as a single, ultra-fast S3-compatible target repository. Behind that single endpoint sits our multi-site replication fabric: the moment your software writes a backup copy to Hexion, we replicate it natively between the two of the four Johannesburg sites you choose.

Why IT leaders choose Hexion for 3-2-1 data strategies

Zero host overhead

Background storage replication frees up your hosted virtual machines and hypervisors. Your production compute isn't wasted processing duplicate outbound backup jobs.

Radical cost predictability

No egress fees. No inter-data-centre bandwidth costs. No API request charges. Replicate petabytes across South Africa without an unpredictable invoice.

Logical separation & compliance

POPIA residency with data physically separated across distinct carrier-neutral facilities, remaining safely on South African soil.

Performance tiers

Instant performance. Infinite possibilities.

Hexion Instant

An all-NVMe performance tier for mission-critical workloads requiring predictable, ultra-low-latency access, performance tier, not currently sold.

From R 600 / TB / month

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Performance tier

Not currently sold

Built for performance. Designed for business.

Hexion Velocity

Ultra-fast primary storage for live workloads and VMs, performance tier, not currently sold.

From R 900 / TB / month

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Performance tier

Not currently sold

Data sovereignty

South African data, under South African control.

Hexion stores your data in South Africa, helping you retain control over where it resides and supporting local data-governance requirements.

Hosted in South Africa

Shield in your choice of Teraco JB1 (Isando), ADC JHB1 (Midrand), NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand) or OADC Parklands; Vault between any two of those sites.

POPIA

Architecture and controls designed to support your compliance obligations.

Compliant facilities

Hosted in SOC- and ISO-compliant data centres.

Shield vs Vault

Two ways to protect your data.

Attribute	Hexion Shield	Hexion Vault
Best for	Cost-effective backup and archive	Business continuity and compliance
Copies at Hexion	One warm copy (your 2nd or 3rd copy)	Two fast copies (2nd and 3rd)
Locations	One of Teraco JB1, ADC JHB1, NTT Johannesburg 1 or OADC Parklands	Any two of those four sites
Ransomware protection	Immutable S3 object storage	Immutable replicated copy in a second data centre
Site outage	Protected within RAID 6 and EC	Survives loss of a full data centre
Starting price	From R 350 / TB / month	From R 450 / TB / month

Not sure which fits? Describe your needs below and we'll recommend one.

AI storage advisor

Not sure which one you need?

Describe your data, how much you have and what you need to protect against. We'll recommend Shield or Vault and explain why.

Private StorageGRID platform

Shield and Vault run on one StorageGRID platform

S3 access, immutability, lifecycle management, monitoring and multi-tenant controls on NetApp StorageGRID, across Teraco JB1 (Isando), ADC JHB1 (Midrand), NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand) and OADC Parklands.

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Shield and Vault

Works with your backup software

Works with any S3-compatible backup software, such as Veeam, Commvault, Acronis and JetBackup.

Backup software overview Veeam Commvault Acronis