We exist to unleash the potential of South African enterprises through a full-stack portfolio of sovereign data storage and AI compute solutions. From strategic advisory to full-stack delivery, with locally engineered and supported products that compete at a global level, priced in rand.
A team of engineers builds and delivers petabyte-scale data systems for SARAO's MeerKAT project. Commencing 12 years of world-class experience in storage engineering, DevOps, and systems architecture.
Tsolo is founded. The goal: South Africa's first full-stack data storage company, with world-class engineering and products built entirely on South African soil.
Awarded funding by the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) to build peta-scale hot and cold storage systems - Tsolo RED and Tsolo BLUE.
Tsolo GREEN launches, immersion-cooled AI compute and storage in one unit, purpose-built for RAG and AI workloads.
The founding team remains at the helm, continuing to deliver on the SARAO project while growing Tsolo's footprint across Africa.
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.
Reduced ingress and egress fees. Priced in rand.
Local engineers. No time zone lag, no costly delays.
Global engineering standards, delivered on local soil.
Your data in your African jurisdiction. No ambiguity.
Tsolo delivers sovereign data solutions for South African organisations. With a range of products and consulting services that cover the entire stack, from a single rack to 100 PiB, from first architecture review to managed operations.
Hardware to software. End-to-end.
Patented and originated in South Africa. We own what we build.
S3, Ceph, erasure-coding. No single-vendor lock in.
Engineered, assembled, and supported on African soil.
A leadership team of architects, storage engineers, DevOps specialists, and programme managers with 12 years of petabyte-scale delivery, active Ceph ambassadorship for Africa, and standing in the global open-source storage community.
Selected as System Engineer for the International SKA Science Data Processor consortium and Technical Coordinator of DOME, the SKA computing R&D partnership between ASTRON and IBM. Architects Tsolo's platform from the same playbook used to design the world's largest radio telescope.
Co-Founder of Tsolo and Ceph Foundation Ambassador for Africa. Architected the >10PB Ceph-based storage infrastructure for the MeerKAT/SKA telescope array and presents Tsolo's storage engineering work at Cephalocon, the global Ceph community conference.
Built and runs the DevOps practice behind SARAO's Science Data Processing platform for MeerKAT, and co-presented Tsolo's archiving and tape-archiving work at Cephalocon, taking lessons from a global science project straight into Tsolo's production stack.
SKA-Mid Head: Computing and Software at SARAO, managing Science Processing for the international Square Kilometre Array project. Brings global top-science programme management discipline to Tsolo's executive guidance.
Brings world-class open-source engineering expertise to Tsolo and its clients. With over 25 years of experience across science computing, high-performance computing, storage infrastructure and enterprise systems at global scale.
