Nutanix has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Datamellon, formalising a strategic collaboration with a born-in-the-cloud partner in sub-Saharan Africa.

The two companies aim to support organisations across Sub-Saharan Africa as they modernise infrastructure, accelerate cloud adoption and build cloud-native environments that support data-driven innovation and artificial intelligence.

“Africa’s technology landscape is evolving rapidly, with organisations looking for partners that can help them move faster while building resilient digital platforms, ” says Tunde Abagun, senior enterprise account manager and team lead for West, East and Central Africa, Nutanix.

“Our collaboration with Datamellon represents an important step in expanding the Nutanix ecosystem across Sub-Saharan Africa. By working together with born-in-the-cloud partners that specialise in modern architectures and cloud-native innovation, we can help enterprises accelerate their hybrid cloud journey and unlock new opportunities through data and AI.”

Born-in-the-cloud partners play an increasingly important role in helping enterprises design and operate modern application environments. By formalising its collaboration with Datamellon, Nutanix is expanding its ability to support organisations adopting hybrid and multicloud architectures across the region.

“Partnering with Nutanix allows us to combine our expertise in cloud-native transformation with one of the most powerful hybrid multicloud platforms in the market,” says Wale Adedeji, CEO at Datamellon. “Together, we are well positioned to help organisations across Africa modernise their infrastructure, unlock advanced analytics and build the next generation of digital services.”

Datamellon works with enterprises on cloud-native development, advanced analytics and AI-driven applications, supporting organisations as they modernise infrastructure and build new digital services. The company has expanded its presence across multiple regions, including Africa, the UK, the Middle East and North America, delivering transformation programmes for large enterprise customers.

The partnership will focus on joint customer engagements, solution development and go-to-market initiatives aimed at helping organisations simplify IT operations, improve application performance and accelerate digital transformation.