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Rack Centre partners with EdgeNext to launch Content Delivery Network and Cloud Hosting Services in Nigeria digital economy. Surging demand for Internet services, mobile applications, gaming, e-commerce and social media platforms has created an urgent need for high-performance infrastructure that can deliver seamless digital experiences.
EdgeNext’ s expansion into Nigeria addresses this demand head-on by improving content delivery and cloud hosting efficiency, ensuring fast and stable application performance and empowering businesses to scale more effectively across the region.
Rack Centre has announced the launch of EdgeNext’ s Content
Delivery Network( CDN) and cloud hosting services in Nigeria, hosted at Rack Centre’ s facility in Lagos.
With a population of over 200 million people and one of Africa’ s youngest demographics, Nigeria represents a rapidly expanding
EdgeNext’ s global acceleration network enables lower-latency digital experiences for video, social media and e-commerce platforms, serving Nigerian end-users. At the same time, its flexible cloud hosting resources help small and medium-sized businesses and developers to deploy services quickly, reduce IT costs and accelerate their Digital Transformation.
“ Launching our CDN and cloud hosting services in Nigeria marks a key milestone for EdgeNext,” said Terence Wang, CEO of EdgeNext.“ By partnering with Rack Centre, we are ensuring secure, reliable and low-latency services for enterprises, developers and end-users, helping Nigeria embrace a new era of cloud and Edge Computing”.
Wingu Cloud Exchange launch marks a new era for Tanzania’ s Digital Economy
Wingu Africa has launched Wingu Cloud Exchange( WCX), a locally hosted private cloud platform designed for the wider East African region.
WCX gives organisations an alternative to offshore cloud services enabling businesses to grow workloads without complexity.
Launching first in Tanzania, the platform will gradually roll out across all Wingu markets including Ethiopia and Djibouti.
WCX includes Wingu Compute, Wingu Kubernetes, Wingu Drive and Wingu Security, allowing organisations to deploy and manage applications while keeping data within regional borders.
The platform integrates with existing on-premise environments and complements global cloud services such as Azure and AWS.
“ Wingu Cloud Exchange is built in direct response to customer demand for a practical, reliable, and locally delivered cloud platform,” said Nicholas Lodge, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Wingu Africa.“ WCX makes cloud adoption straightforward, compliant, predictable in cost, scalable on demand and aligned with how organisations in the region actually operate.”
“ The launch of Wingu Cloud Exchange is an important step for the region’ s digital maturity,” added Erkan Satik, Director of Cloud Ecosystem and Alliances at Wingu Africa.“ WCX is simple to use, quick to deploy, and designed to give customers real choice. They can run applications locally for better performance, integrate with global clouds when needed and scale instantly.”
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