Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 41 | Page 16

AWS Cape Town launch a The launch of AWS Africa Region in Cape Town represents a great opportunity for Africa to strengthen the speed and reliability of connectivity, create jobs and optimise workloads. This is according to Muggie van Staden, MD of Obsidian Systems, a leading provider of end-to-end digital services and solutions and official AWS partner supporting the AWS Africa region. AWS Africa Region has gone live and customers will be able to run their applications and serve The AWS Africa (Cape three Availability Zone that there are indeed (af-south-1a, af-south we have created test w Town,” said Grant Bing Leaf in partnership wi While Bingham advis the Availability Zones non-production workl VMware opens Cairo offic Digital Transformation VMware has opened its first office in Cairo in Egypt as it seeks to help the country drive Digital Transformation across a range of sectors, including government, education, healthcare and industry. VMware views the country as a key market in the Middle East and North Africa region. The new office will ser regional market focus services including sup technical sales, projec cloud consultancy. VM more than 130 people year of operating the www.intelligentcio.com