Huawei Cloud Africa data centre to go live in March

Huawei has revealed that its first cloud data centre in Africa will open in Johannesburg next month, followed by another in Cape Town. The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centres.Huawei says it will deploy localised public cloud services based on local industry policies, customer requirements and partner conditions.Globally, Huawei Cloud has launched over 160 cloud services in 18 categories with more than 60 general-purpose solutions, such as SAP, HPC, IoT, security and DevOps. Huawei has also developed solutions for more than 80 industry-specific scenarios, such as manufacturing, e-commerce, gaming, finance, and IoV. Speaking at a Cloud Summit in Johannesburg this week, Huawei outlined its plans for a fully connected Africa driven by Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.