Telecoms company MTN is set to roll out a hybrid cloud solution in partnership with Microsoft, the solution will be serviced from MTN’s data centres.
The solution was officially unveiled today in Johannesburg today and will be rolled out in 23 other markets. ITWeb Africa reported that the cloud solution will provide local hosting in 47 data centres across Africa according to MTN Business SA chief enterprise officer Alpheus Mangale.
“Our partnership is very unique. We have decided to partner with Microsoft, to use and make sure that our solutions are powered by the Azure platform. Microsoft has spent quite a lot of time developing it across the world and deployed it to multiple customers. We are going to be the powerhouse in partnership with Microsoft to enable the experience of Azure in the continent, not only in South Africa.”
Benefits of the solution include ‘pay as you use’, flexible billing determined by the capacity a customer has used, as well as the option to order more servers whenever the need arises.
