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Angola Cables to enable
customer’s Microsoft
Azure migration
“We see ACloud Connect as a natural extension of customers’
own IT infrastructures,” said Antonio Nunes, CEO at Angola
Cables. “In addition to benefiting from the scale and
economics of Microsoft Azure, Africa-based customers should
also look forward to low latency services.”
Complementing NAPAfrica in South Africa – offering peering
across sub-Saharan Africa – the Azure cloud platform will
help protect organisations’ online assets as they look to
expand globally, while maintaining ‘data residency’ on
the African continent. “Microsoft’s enterprise experience
and approach to the cloud addresses customers’ needs in
a differentiated way. Our unique approach to the cloud
spans three areas that, when combined, give customers
the most choice and flexibility with the cloud: enterprise
capabilities, global cloud infrastructure, and comprehensive
hybrid solutions,” said Laurence Janssens, Country Manager,
Microsoft Southern Africa.
António Nunes, CEO, Angola Cables
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ngola Cables has announced that it has become a
Microsoft ExpressRoute partner to meet the needs
of Africa-based organisations migrating business
applications and IT infrastructures to the cloud and
accelerating digital transformation on the continent. Taking
advantage of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, Angola
Cables has created ACloud Connect to provide dedicated,
high-quality connections to a worldwide network of 42 Azure
regions offered by Microsoft, and connectivity to Angonap,
Angola Cables’ data centre located in Luanda.
“Through the partnership with Microsoft, Angola Cables seems
to be making all the right moves to become a key enabler
of cloud adoption on the continent,” said Lehlohhonolo
Mokenela, Industry Analyst for the Digital Transformation
Practice at Frost & Sullivan Africa. “The impact on latency
“Angola Cables has created
ACloud Connect to provide
dedicated, high-quality
connections to a worldwide
network of 42 Azure regions.”
Predictable performance
As one of the world’s most trusted and flexible enterprise-
grade cloud computing platforms, Azure allows organisations
to extend on-premise networks into the cloud over a private
connection. Because ExpressRoute connections do not go over
the public Internet, customers experience reliable, fast and
more predictable connectivity than conventional connections.
Offering dedicated Ethernet links between customers’
infrastructures and Azure’s data centres – as well as running
one of the world’s most advanced IP / MPLS backbones –
Angola Cables ACloud Connect will interconnect Africa and
the rest of the world. Available from November 2017, Angola
Cables will initially concentrate on servicing Angola and South
Africa-based organisations with ACloud Connect.
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and the cost of bandwidth will make cloud an even more
viable option for enterprises across Africa. This will also see
greater demand from small and medium enterprises (SMEs),
a segment of the market that typically drives cloud adoption
in some of the more developed countries. With SACS due
to go live in 2018, Angola is well-positioned to become an
important technology hub in the region.”
Mokenela further notes that economies with relatively more
mature technology adoption such as South Africa, Kenya and
Nigeria, are already witnessing a growing transition towards the
cloud. “These types of partnerships, along with the impending
arrival of new cables like SACS, can provide the platform for
greater cloud uptake across the rest of the continent as well.” n
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