MTN has launched an Africa-wide cloud services offering based on Azure Pack and a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Alpheus Mangale, chief enterprise business officer at MTN SA, points out that the partnership will see MTN bringing Azure services to all African markets through its 47 data centres on the continent. The core benefits of cloud computing are agility, flexibility and security, he says.
Internet Solutions (IS) has launched CloudConnect, establishing what it says is the “gold standard” of versatile, secure connectivity to major international cloud services. The new service provides MPLS VPN connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Dimension Data Cloud, via new direct interconnections in London and Frankfurt. CloudConnect gives businesses the ability to connect to the international cloud-computing solution that best responds to their business, via a single user-friendly portal with market-leading standards of security, privacy and redundancy.