Nasdaq-listed Equinix is pressing ahead with a project to build a R3-billion data centre in Johannesburg.
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Microsoft is pulling ahead of its chief rivals, Amazon.com and Google, in the burgeoning cloud services market.
Google’s cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, even as sales at Microsoft’s cloud unit boomed.
Promoted | The Emerald real-time value-added service distribution platform will be available in Africa as a cloud-based service.
Microsoft is preparing to bring Amazon.com on as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools, Insider reported.
IT services firm BCX has launched local public cloud services in South Africa under the name ALP Cloud.
Metrofile has launched rand-based storage, allowing companies to store large volumes of historical data at relatively low cost.
Ofcom has asked the UK’s antitrust authority to investigate AWS and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK cloud market.
AWS, Amazon’s cloud division, plans to open a development centre in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
A new report from AWS shows that for every 1% increase in cloud penetration, there is a 0.06% improvement in GDP growth.