Huawei To Expand Cloud Services In Africa, Starts With SA

Cloud computing in South Africa just got a boost as China’s Huawei wants to build two data Centres in the country. The project is expected to start from March as part of a bigger plan to expand cloud services across Africa.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

“The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centres in Johannesburg initially and later Cape Town,” Huawei said in a statement.

Its cloud service will be available to organisations in South Africa as well as neighbouring countries, it said.

The Chinese firm, at the centre of global security concerns, will challenge Amazon.com Inc, which is also expanding

its presence in the emerging tech hub of Cape Town in a challenge against cloud computing rival Microsoft Corp.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the global leader in cloud computing.

In the last quarter of 2018 AWS’s revenue grew 46 per cent to 7 billion dollars while Microsoft’s grew 76 per cent

to 4 billion dollars to remain in second place, data from research firm Canalys showed. 

-Reuters