Huawei Cloud’s business in South Africa has grown fast over the past five years and it plans to launch more cloud solutions to expand market share to boost revenue, a company executive said on Thursday.
Increased demand for faster computing from South African firms and the government has attracted big cloud operators into the country, with Huawei the first international vendor to host a local ‘hyperscale’ cloud data centre in South Africa in 2019.
Huawei Cloud has served more than 1,000 customers from the government, financial services, education and telecoms sectors as well as some media and e-commerce companies, Jacqueline Shi, president of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service told delegates at the company’s cloud summit in Johannesburg.
“With this kind of strong support from different customers, our cloud business in South Africa has increased more than 16 times over the past five years,” Shi said.
She told reporters
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