The world’s largest radio telescope needs two of the world's most powerful supercomputers

The cloud giant has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to make Azure Cloud locally available.

The Department of Labour moves its servers from Pretoria to Midrand

Will start construction of a facility in Johannesburg next month

Services will be available by the end of this year

The company's first in Africa

The company’s investments in the country will total nearly $328 million by 2019

Stating markets have benefited from wider growth across the country 

Doubling the technical space in Johannesburg, Cape Town facilities 

The Johannesburg facility will become the first Nexcenter location in Africa

No word on whether they were opportunists or saboteurs 

Reward offered for information on what could have been an inside job or intentional sabotage

Giving the company half of the continent’s power supply capacity 

No details yet – but the company is watching the market with interest

Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 will be delivered from data centers in South Africa

R1.2 billion to build out two facilities

The company sets its sights on becoming Africa’s largest data center operator

More colocation space for a rapidly growing market

Move supports IPv6, IPv4 network growth in southern Africa

Global group signs up South Africa’s largest player

Infrastructure in Johannesburg could increase cloud uptake across the continent

R500m data center will be South Africa’s biggest 

Demand for cloud and data center services booming in South Africa