SEACOM’s value added services (VAS) business Pamoja is to host its cloud platform at Liquid Telecom’s East Africa Data Centre in Nairobi, a move designed to assist the rollout of cloud services in the country and the wider East African market.
The platform will complement Pamoja’s other cloud platform based in South Africa, with the company saying Nairobi is ideal because of its strategic location within East Africa.
“By interconnecting the two Pamoja platforms through the SEACOM submarine cable infrastructure we are able to firstly provide cloud services with a regional presence and secondly offer geographic redundancy to customers who demand this,” said Pamoja general manager Albie Bester.
“With physical cloud infrastructure in Africa Pamoja is able to address customer concerns about the location of their sensitive data and ensure improved service response times compare to cloud services that are hosted in Europe or the US.”
Pamoja is intending to help businesses across Africa take advantage of the movement towards cloud computing, the impact of the internet and social networks on the corporate space and the relevance of cloud computing to core operations across most businesses.
