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Teraco announces sponsorship to help
boost Africa’s Internet infrastructure
SAFNOG hosting sponsor, Teraco, says this year’s event remains
highly relevant to the local industry as more opportunities are
sought to build and sustain regional Internet communities.
In its role as one of the industry’s fundamental foundations,
Teraco has announced a vital sponsorship providing quality
colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators.
We believe that sponsoring the needed infrastructure for root
operators will further improve the African Internet experience”.
Teraco’s Technical Manager for Interconnection & Peering,
Andrew Owens, says that the decision to sponsor root
operators was another way in which Teraco can continue
to support the growth of the African Internet market: “Root
operators have been recognised as an important element
of the Internet and in sponsoring colocation infrastructure,
we hope to increase the number of root operators available
within the continent.”
Currently, within Teraco, Owen says that root operators can
access over 280 unique ASN’s and service multiple African
countries through a single deployment in the Johannesburg
facility: “We recognise the support our community has given
us over the years to grow Teraco and its Internet exchange,
NAPAfrica. We feel it’s now time to do more than just fund
NAPAfrica to help improve a user’s Internet experience in Africa.
Andrew Owens, Technical Manager for Interconnection
and Peering, Teraco
Huawei cloud and Microsoft apps
embark on new strategic cooperation
to help enterprises implement
digital transformation.
Huawei and Microsoft
already enjoy a time-
honoured and deepening
cooperation in the field of
cloud computing as the
Huawei cloud has provided
Windows Server and RDS
for SQL Server. In this new
strategic cooperation, Huawei
and Microsoft will bring more
Microsoft enterprise-level
products online.
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei
and Microsoft signed a strategic
memorandum of understanding (MoU)
on cloud service, under which Microsoft
applications will be released on Huawei
cloud. The two companies will initiate in-
depth cooperation on the public cloud
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Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei’s
Cloud BU and IT Product Line, said
in the MoU signing ceremony, “As a
world-leading provider of software,
services, and solutions, Microsoft
has played an important part in the
enterprise market all along. Huawei
cloud looks forward to cooperating with
Microsoft to build an open and win-win
ecosystem. The signing of this MoU
marks the start of strategic cooperation
between the two companies.”
Alain Crozier, CEO of Microsoft China
said, “The fourth Industrial Revolution,
driven by technology innovation, is
creating opportunities for customers
to achieve more across nearly
every industry. As a global leader in
enterprise IT, Huawei is a strategic
partner for Microsoft in the mission
to empower organisations as they
transform. Our increased collaboration
will drive innovation as we build a
seamless platform to benefit customers
through industry-leading technology.
Together, we are confident that we
will lead, and win, in the era of digital
transformation by focusing on what our
customers need.”
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