Following the recent inauguration of their advanced Tier III AngoNAP data center facility in Fortaleza, Brazil, Angola Cables has announced that it has launched Angola Cables Cloud Service to the African market.
Angola Cables is an Angolan telecommunications multinational founded in 2009, operating in the wholesale market with business expertise in sale of international transmission capacity through submarine fibre optic cables and IP Transit.
In a press release by African Media Agency on July 15 and made available to
OpenLife, the launch of a single platform ‘Cloud as a Service’ follows the
strong demand from companies operating across the African continent who are
looking to innovate and accelerate their digital capabilities, without having
to incur additional software licensing and other operating costs.
‘Cloud as a Service’ addresses these challenges by delivering an attractive
alternative that improves business efficiencies, increases productivity and
reduces some of the high costs and complexities associated with the purchase
and maintenance of IT hardware and infrastructure.
According to research conducted by World Wide Worx entitled Cloud Africa
2018, Africa’s appetite for Cloud services is growing at an unparalleled rate.
Whilst some areas within Africa are not able to utilise the full benefits of
Cloud-linked computing – and its various applications, due to slow or erratic
internet connections, uptake by companies – both medium and large in using the
Cloud has more than doubled since 2013.
António Nunes, CE of Angola Cables says that access to cloud services has
multiple benefits for corporates and other entities requiring both scale and
efficiency in meeting their expanding IT needs. “The Angola Cables Cloud
Service offering is a very robust, yet flexible platform that offers on-demand
hardware and software resources, accelerated processing and cloud allocated
storage that can be accessed anywhere in the world – even by mobile
phone.”
“Given Africa’s high number of mobile subscribers, Cloud-based
applications offer the opportunity to adopt and embrace evolving digital technologies
that can advance economic development and cultural change,” notes Nunes.
“We are already seeing a steady increase in investments being made by
governments, banking and financial institutions and other businesses on the
continent in using the Cloud to deliver more secure, user-friendly applications
and services to their customers.”
Angola Cables Cloud Service is available via the AngoNAP data centres in Luanda
and AngoNAP Fortaleza Tier III in Brazil with direct linkages to the low
latency South Atlantic (SACS) and Monet cable systems within scaleable, secure,
co-location environments. Nunes adds, “Our current infrastructure is ideal
for a wide range of customers from large multinationals to OTT content
providers, backhaul providers, ISP’s and high data volume users that share data
across the continents of Africa and South America and the rest of the
world.”
“Given the flexibility of our infrastructure and the ultra-low latency
routings available across our subsea cable network, we are in an ideal position
to assist and support companies with their cloud migration and the digital
transformation of their enterprises,” concludes Nunes.
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