The company will focus on colocation, a market that continues to expand in Brazil, while TIVIT will focus on Cloud, Digital and SaaS services
TIVIT, a Brazilian multinational and one stop shop of technology, announces the spin-off of its data center unit, a company that was named Takoda. The new company was born with 20 years of experience, 65 large clients in colocation – infrastructure services for hosting servers in data centers – such as Petrobras, TIM and BNDES, in addition to hyperscalers global.
While Takoda – a name that means “friend” or “ally” in the Sioux language of Native Americans – will focus on data center services, TIVIT will continue to focus on digital services, a segment that has grown rapidly in recent years, especially with demand for SaaS, cloud, digital transformation and cybersecurity solutions.
“We are privileged to work in sectors with exponential growth. We started with an investment of R$1.2 billion for the next five years, with the forecast of quintupling the size of the operation”, says Eduardo Sodero, CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of TIVIT, who was appointed CEO of Takoda. “With the creation of Takoda, we will focus more on two business fronts – digital services and colocation – bringing more value to our customers on their digital transformation journeys and in parallel with their digital infrastructure needs.”
According to Sodero, the two fronts are complementary, but have different dynamics. “The data center business has a high need for (capital-intensive) investments, longer term returns, different financial metrics, such as ROIC, in addition to the profile of the teams, which is different.” The digital services arm remains under the TIVIT brand, led by CEO Paulo Freitas, an executive who took over the position in January 2023.
expanding market
Takoda's launch takes place at a time of expansion of technologies that demand more and more space in data centers, such as the growing demand for cloud services, whose providers opt for external data centers, the commercial arrival of 5G in the country, the race of companies through digital transformation, the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things, in Portuguese).
By 2022, global investment in data centers is estimated at $220 billion, a record for the second straight year, according to the Dell'Oro Group. Currently, Takoda has four data centers and 250 employees. “Takoda is already born as a reference in the market, because our data centers have proven operational excellence for more than two decades, delivering security, hyper connectivity, low latency, being supplied with 100% of renewable energy.” “That's why our customers, which include hyperscales and large companies in Brazil and Latin America, trust Takoda as their digital infrastructure partner,” says Sodero.
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