Microsoft South Africa announced that it has launched enterprise-grade data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
At an event led by MD of Microsoft South Africa Lillian Barnard, the company stated that the opening of the data centres will help power the fourth industrial revolution.<\/p>\n
The event was also attended by Asif Valley, Cloud Development Lead for Microsoft South Africa, Minister of Communications Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, and Yousef Khalidi, corporate vice president of Azure Networking at Microsoft.<\/p>\n
Microsoft launching data centres in South Africa puts the country among key global regions, said Khalidi.<\/p>\n
“These are the first hyperscale data centres on the continent,” he said, adding that the data centres launching is only “the tip of the iceberg” for the country.<\/p>\n
Microsoft announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in 2017 that it would be implementing data centres for its Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 services locally.<\/p>\n These data centres were expected to be installed in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2018, however.<\/p>\n At the time, Robert Marston, \u200eGlobal Head of Products at SEACOM, said the development would provide huge assistance to enterprise-level implementations of infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, and other cloud services.<\/p>\n However,\u00a0Microsoft failed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to complete the project by the end of 2018 \u2013 making it Microsoft\u2019s only failure in terms of data centre implementation worldwide last year.<\/p>\n When MyBroadband previously spoke with Microsoft about the delay, the company did not provide details regarding why it failed to implement its South African data centres on time.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re building an unprecedented level of infrastructure to support our new enterprise-grade cloud data centers in South Africa,\u201d Microsoft said at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re focused on building the right solutions for our customers and are working towards availability of our new enterprise-grade cloud data centers in South Africa in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft South Africa announced that it has launched enterprise-grade data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340966,"featured_media":242088,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35,24957,25403],"class_list":["post-298352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-microsoft-azure","tag-microsoft-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298352"}],"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\/340966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298354,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298352\/revisions\/298354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Which fibre packages give you the best per-Mbps price<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"