Angola cables launches cloud service platform

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Following the recent inauguration of their&NewLine;advanced Tier III AngoNAP data center facility in Fortaleza&comma; Brazil&comma; Angola&NewLine;Cables has announced that it has launched Angola Cables Cloud Service to the&NewLine;African market&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Angola Cables is an Angolan telecommunications&NewLine;multinational founded in 2009&comma; operating in the wholesale market with business expertise&NewLine;in &nbsp&semi;sale of international transmission&NewLine;capacity through submarine fibre optic cables and IP Transit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>&NewLine;In a press release by African Media Agency on July 15 and made available to&NewLine;OpenLife&comma; the launch of a single platform &&num;8216&semi;Cloud as a Service&&num;8217&semi; follows the&NewLine;strong demand from companies operating across the African continent who are&NewLine;looking to innovate and accelerate their digital capabilities&comma; without having&NewLine;to incur additional software licensing and other operating costs&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Cloud as a Service&&num;8217&semi; addresses these challenges by delivering an attractive&NewLine;alternative that improves business efficiencies&comma; increases productivity and&NewLine;reduces some of the high costs and complexities associated with the purchase&NewLine;and maintenance of IT hardware and infrastructure&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;According to research conducted by World Wide Worx entitled Cloud Africa&NewLine;2018&comma; Africa&&num;8217&semi;s appetite for Cloud services is growing at an unparalleled rate&period;&NewLine;Whilst some areas within Africa are not able to utilise the full benefits of&NewLine;Cloud-linked computing &&num;8211&semi; and its various applications&comma; due to slow or erratic&NewLine;internet connections&comma; uptake by companies &&num;8211&semi; both medium and large in using the&NewLine;Cloud has more than doubled since 2013&period;&nbsp&semi;<br><br>&NewLine;António Nunes&comma; CE of Angola Cables says that access to cloud services has&NewLine;multiple benefits for corporates and other entities requiring both scale and&NewLine;efficiency in meeting their expanding IT needs&period; &&num;8220&semi;The Angola Cables Cloud&NewLine;Service offering is a very robust&comma; yet flexible platform that offers on-demand&NewLine;hardware and software resources&comma; accelerated processing and cloud allocated&NewLine;storage that can be accessed anywhere in the world &&num;8211&semi; even by mobile&NewLine;phone&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br><br>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Given Africa&&num;8217&semi;s high number of mobile subscribers&comma; Cloud-based&NewLine;applications offer the opportunity to adopt and embrace evolving digital technologies&NewLine;that can advance economic development and cultural change&comma;&&num;8221&semi; notes Nunes&period;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We are already seeing a steady increase in investments being made by&NewLine;governments&comma; banking and financial institutions and other businesses on the&NewLine;continent in using the Cloud to deliver more secure&comma; user-friendly applications&NewLine;and services to their customers&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br><br>&NewLine;Angola Cables Cloud Service is available via the AngoNAP data centres in Luanda&NewLine;and AngoNAP Fortaleza Tier III in Brazil with direct linkages to the low&NewLine;latency South Atlantic &lpar;SACS&rpar; and Monet cable systems within scaleable&comma; secure&comma;&NewLine;co-location environments&period; Nunes adds&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Our current infrastructure is ideal&NewLine;for a wide range of customers from large multinationals to OTT content&NewLine;providers&comma; backhaul providers&comma; ISP&&num;8217&semi;s and high data volume users that share data&NewLine;across the continents of Africa and South America and the rest of the&NewLine;world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br><br>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Given the flexibility of our infrastructure and the ultra-low latency&NewLine;routings available across our subsea cable network&comma; we are in an ideal position&NewLine;to assist and support companies with their cloud migration and the digital&NewLine;transformation of their enterprises&comma;&&num;8221&semi; concludes Nunes&period;<br><br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;