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ANGOLA
ANGOLA
Angola Cables has announced that construction has begun on its South American data centre,
located in Fortaleza, Brazil. The data centre is an important next step in the company’s roll-out
of promoting the digital inclusion and empowerment of Africa by the use of a subsea Internet
cable connecting Africa to the Americas and providing high-speed Internet at some of the lowest
latency speeds.
Two key routes will run from the data centre. The SACS system will connect the Fortaleza centre to
Luanda and is expected to be completed by mid-2018. The Monet Cable will connect Miami with
both Fortaleza and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is due to be completed by the end of 2017. However,
the data centre aims to accommodate more cables from the cable dense region of Fortaleza.
SOUTH
AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Accenture has launched a new Liquid Studio in Johannesburg as part of the company’s
accelerated investment in innovation in South Africa. At the Liquid Studio, clients will work
alongside Accenture professionals to quickly turn ideas into innovative applications and solutions.
The Liquid Studio accelerates innovation by applying rapid development approaches including
Agile methodologies and DevOps. This allows clients to reduce development time from months
to days and shorten the time to business impact. Clients can also experiment with disruptive
technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and cloud architectures. The capabilities of
the Liquid Studio will be supplemented by Accenture’s alliance ecosystem, startups and others.
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