SEACOM has welcomed Microsoft\u2019s plans to build hyperscale data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg, saying it will boost cloud adoption in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Microsoft will use local data centres<\/strong><\/a> to deliver a range of cloud services from 2018, including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.<\/p>\n Robert Marston, \u200eGlobal Head of Product at SEACOM, said the development is set to give a huge boost to enterprise adoption of infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, and other cloud services.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s data centres will offer South African companies a much better performance and lower latencies than the current situation, where its services are hosted internationally.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will also lower the cost barrier for adoption of these services for enterprise customers,\u201d said Marston.<\/p>\n Many enterprises have chosen private clouds or to work with local public cloud providers that lack the capabilities of the world\u2019s top cloud computing providers, he said.<\/p>\n Enterprises will soon be able to enjoy the full Azure experience with no performance compromises or hefty data charges.<\/p>\n With Microsoft hosting its cloud services locally, it is only a matter of time before other providers set up data centres in Africa, said Marston.<\/p>\n \u201cThe investment from Microsoft is a signal that the cloud market in South Africa and the rest of Africa has come of age.”<\/p>\n SEACOM has welcomed Microsoft\u2019s plans to build data centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[123,24957,17998,317],"class_list":["post-219152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-azure","tag-office-365","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219170,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219152\/revisions\/219170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft Azure servers coming to South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"