{"id":849538,"date":"2026-02-02T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=849538"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:55:47","slug":"stellar-year-expected-for-digicloud-and-reseller-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/849538\/stellar-year-expected-for-digicloud-and-reseller-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar year expected for DigiCloud and reseller partners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Digicloud Africa<\/strong><\/a>, Google Cloud distributor and reseller enablement partner in Africa, expects a \u2018stellar\u2019 year ahead, thanks to a surge in positive sentiment around Gemini and Google security solutions across Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digicloud Africa CEO Gregory MacLennan says: \u201cThe sentiment around Google is so positive right now that we are even seeing major enterprises implementing Google alongside their existing software and making long-term commitments to Google solutions. The likes of Discovery Health have signed a multi-year commitment to harness Gemini within their organisation, and other big players are starting to take note which is really where it gets exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here to learn more about Digicloud.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Discovery Vitality and Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.googlecloudpresscorner.com\/2025-11-04-Vitality-and-Google-Partner-to-Bring-AI-Powered-Health-Solutions-to-Millions?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> a global partnership to launch Vitality AI, a new platform integrating Google Cloud&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/google-cloud\/generative-ai\/ai-and-machine-learning-tools\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Vertex AI platform<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/google-cloud\/generative-ai\/gemini-for-google-cloud\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Gemini<\/strong><\/a> models with Vitality&#8217;s health datasets to give Vitality&#8217;s customers personalised, actionable insight tailored to each individual&#8217;s health, lifestyle, and key risk factors, to help reduce illness and extend healthy years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan adds: \u201cThere&#8217;s a lot of positive sentiment around anything to do with Google AI, Google security and &#8211; within Africa &#8211; because of the local data centre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan says this bodes well for Digicloud Africa and its resellers. Digicloud Africa, launched in 2018, is a Google exclusive value-added distributor, and has built its business model and reseller network from the ground up. The company now has over 125 reseller partners servicing 46 countries across Africa. \u201cNow&#8217;s the time to be a reseller, if you weren\u2019t one before. If you are a reseller, now&#8217;s the time to speak to your customers about AI and security,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Market-leading AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan says a key Google drawcard is Gemini. \u201cWhere Google may have been seen as a slow starter for two or three years, Gemini has soared past the competition in the past year. Gemini is consistently better on more metrics than everyone else and that is being seen in the market, so people are flocking to Google,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is also being seen in Google&#8217;s share price where others are taking a bit of strain. Google\u2019s share price more than doubled from May 2025 to January 2026, and Google&#8217;s AI is being recognised as the number one AI tool across Google Workspace, Enterprise and within Google Cloud applications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan notes that organisations applying Gemini to specific business problems are starting to see real returns, making specific business processes more efficient, cheaper and faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhanced security<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Google\u2019s security focus is also driving uptake across Africa, MacLennan says. \u201cWe are also seeing really good traction around Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/google-security-operations-secops\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>security<\/strong><\/a>. In Africa and South Africa, there are a lot more security solutions available from Google that have Google level security. This means the best of the best security, bolstered by acquisitions and partnerships such as the Google Cloud &#8211; Wiz acquisition. You can secure any environment with Google level security, and you don\u2019t have to be running a Google environment to do it. So that&#8217;s a big win for Google and the African market as we head into 2026,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan notes that the launch of the local Google Cloud region in Johannesburg, is also driving moves to Google across Africa. \u201cThe local DC has been launched and is in active usage by a number of South African customers,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resellers scale Google capabilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicloud.africa\/find-a-partner\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored+Article&amp;utm_term=February+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Local resellers<\/strong><\/a> are responding to the surge in demand by scaling up their capabilities around Gemini and Google security solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacLennan says: \u201cWhat we&#8217;re seeing with some of our biggest resellers and those focusing on AI innovation is that they are actively moving their businesses across to AI solutions. These businesses are building solutions that they&#8217;re using internally &#8211; they are eating their own dog food and implementing Gemini AI at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digicloud supports resellers through regular training, support and enablement, with ongoing enablement to keep them updated on what solutions are available, and how they can get the most out of Google&#8217;s partner programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want our partners focused on looking after their customers and adding as much value as possible through engineering great solutions. We don\u2019t want them worried about how to meet program requirements, get value from partnering with us, and understand how everything works,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do that through enablement sessions and meetings with the reseller teams to explain the programs, rebates and opportunities. If you&#8217;re working with DigiCloud, we make it as simple as possible for you to be able to sell these solutions and spend the time engineering amazing things that make your customers happy, and as little time as possible working out how the program works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPart of DigiCloud&#8217;s strength is helping resellers navigate Google&#8217;s partner program and changes to that program as they happen, so our resellers can focus on technical expertise and helping their customers solve business problems,\u201d MacLennan concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Digicloud Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digicloud Africa is Google\u2019s chosen enablement partner in Africa. Through Digicloud, Google is creating an ecosystem of Google Cloud partners across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digicloud supports its partner network by providing the necessary training, tools and resources needed to implement cloud solutions and support to their customers successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>customer demands for technology intensify, Digicloud is increasing its investment in supporting its partners to achieve sustainable growth. Digicloud\u2019s partner enablement helps organisations build skills around open, advanced technologies to go to market with outcome-based solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find Digicloud Africa on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/digicloudafrica\/?originalSubdomain=za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LinkedIn.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digicloud Africa, Google Cloud distributor and reseller enablement partner in Africa, expects a \u2018stellar\u2019 year ahead, thanks to a surge in positive sentiment around Gemini and Google security solutions across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":849546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15881],"class_list":["post-849538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-digicloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849549,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849538\/revisions\/849549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}