The first African public data centre for Chinese multinational tech company Alibaba is to be launched next month by South African ICT provider BCX.

ITWeb reports that in terms of a deal concluded a year ago, BCX will host Alibaba’s cloud computing products, including databases, networking, security, analytics and big data.

According to BCX CEO Jonas Bogoshi, the company will start rolling out the cloud data centres across the continent, beginning with South Africa, with the local public cloud up and running on 5 October.

‘We are also working on rolling them out across the continent. So, the plan is to open one in Mozambique in December; the business case has been approved. We will then have the next one in Cape Town,’ he says.

‘We are also looking at countries like Botswana, Namibia and Zambia where we have presence,’ Bogoshi adds.

5 September 2023
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