Microsoft South Africa announced that it has launched enterprise-grade data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
At an event led by MD of Microsoft South Africa Lillian Barnard, the company stated that the opening of the data centres will help power the fourth industrial revolution.<\/p>\n
The event was also attended by Asif Valley, Cloud Development Lead for Microsoft South Africa, and Minister of Communications Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams<\/p>\n
Microsoft announced in 2017 that it would be implementing data centres for its Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 services locally.<\/p>\n
These data centres were expected to be installed in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2018, however.<\/p>\n
At the time, Robert Marston, \u200eGlobal Head of Products at SEACOM, said the development would provide huge assistance to enterprise-level implementations of infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, and other cloud services.<\/p>\n
However, Microsoft failed to complete the project by the end of 2018 \u2013 making it Microsoft\u2019s only failure in terms of data centre implementation worldwide last year.<\/p>\n
When MyBroadband previously spoke with Microsoft about the delay, the company did not provide details regarding why it failed to implement its South African data centres on time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re building an unprecedented level of infrastructure to support our new enterprise-grade cloud data centers in South Africa,\u201d Microsoft said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re focused on building the right solutions for our customers and are working towards availability of our new enterprise-grade cloud data centers in South Africa in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n