Data Storage & Compute Solutions.

Custom-engineered in South Africa, delivering cost-effective solutions for African businesses at scale.

Why Tsolo

Built to overcome the cost and complexity of large-scale data transfers.

Purpose-built hardware with integrated software, designed by local engineers, delivering measurable cost benefits for scaling businesses with large-scale data requirements.

Cost-Efficient

Reduced ingress and egress fees, priced in rand.

LOCAL BUILD
& SUPPORT

No international delays.
Local engineers & support.

Cost-Efficient

Reduced ingress and egress fees, priced in rand.

LOCAL BUILD
& SUPPORT

No international delays.
Local engineers & support.

Global Expertise

Global engineering standards, delivered on local soil.

Data Sovereignty

No Ambiguity. Your data in your jurisdiction.

What Tsolo Offers

End-to-end storage solutions & consulting services.

Our products span petabyte-scale storage and immersion-cooled AI compute, engineered in South Africa.

Our consulting services progress from architecture review through to long-term managed operations, end-to-end or project-based, specific to your enterprise needs.

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Full-stack engineering

Hardware, software services and support.

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Consulting Services

Design, build, deploy  (project based or end-to-end).

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Open & interoperable

S3, Ceph, erasure-coding.
No single vendor lock-in.

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Built for African ops

Engineered for non-traditional deployment environments.

Products

Three products. One architecture.

The Tsolo portfolio delivers a full infrastructure stack, petabyte-scale storage and AI compute, engineered to work as one system or deployed independently. S3-compatible from the front-end, Ceph-powered at the core.

Disk / Hot Storage
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Ceph-powered, multi-tenant object storage stack, ready to deploy in any facility. Compatible with existing Commercial Off-The-Shelf hardware, or on the Tsolo rack-scale RED Data Sled at 180 TiB per sled.

  • 1 PiB redundant per subrack class
  • 25 Gb/s networking
  • Ceph & erasure-coding ready
  • AMD Ryzen + 64GB ECC per sled
Tape / S3 Archive
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S3-compatible cold storage on tape economics. Modern archive at a fraction of disk-based costs, with zero application changes required.

  • Scales to 100 PiB
  • Energy-efficient archive tier
  • Multi-level redundancy
  • Drop-in for existing S3 tooling
AI Compute
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Immersion-cooled AI compute and storage in one unit. Consumer-class GPUs at sustained peak, purpose-built for RAG and AI workloads.

  • 2× RTX 5090 per frame
  • 16-core Ryzen / 128GB RAM
  • 2–10 frame configuration
  • RAG-ready out of the box
Origins · SARAO / MeerKAT

Engineering petabyte-scale infrastructure since 2014.

Tsolo's founding engineers spent 12 years building the storage infrastructure behind MeerKAT, South Africa's precursor to the Square Kilometre Array. One of the largest and most data-intensive scientific projects of our time. That same team continues to deliver on the project today.

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10+
PiB Under
Management
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80
PiB Tape
Archive
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12+
Yrs SARAO
Delivery
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ZA
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Ownership
Running in Production
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Trusted across the continent.

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Countries Deployed
~80
PiB Tape Archive Deployed
10+
PiB Under Management
ZA → AF
Expanding Across the Continent
Ready when you are

Tell us what you're building.

Whether you're scaling storage architecture or looking at AI, speak to a team that has already done it at petabyte scale.

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