[kictanet] Data Residency - RSA not in Kenya

[S.M. Muraya]

Dear Listers,

South Africa has always been ahead of Kenya in using their own/local
firms/talent to build/customize applications to run their organizations.

No surprise their concerns for data residency have been noted.




*http://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/datacenter/microsoft-data-centres-south-africa-212425
<http://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/datacenter/microsoft-data-centres-south-africa-212425>*
*Colocation Offering*

Microsoft’s decision to build two data centres in South Africa is notable
considering that none of the world’s top-tier cloud providers currently
have data centres in Africa.

But it should be noted that Microsoft is apparently not actually building
its own data centres from scratch in South Africa, but rather they will be
collocated at existing facilities.

Microsoft has so far not disclosed who its collocation partner in South
Africa will be.



*http://windowsitpro.com/azure/microsoft-expands-azure-global-footprint-two-new-datacenters-planned-africa
<http://windowsitpro.com/azure/microsoft-expands-azure-global-footprint-two-new-datacenters-planned-africa>*

Today Microsoft looks to beat their cloud competitors Amazon and Google to
the South African continent with the announcement of two new Azure
datacenters which will come online there in 2018.

The two datacenters, located in Cape Town and Johannesburg, will provide a
range of cloud services from Microsoft such as Azure, Office 365
<http://winsupersite.com/office-365>, and Dynamics 365. The facilities will
also provide enterprise-grade reliability and performance plus the option
to have data only reside on these two datacenters in order to to comply
with various privacy and data protection laws.

Once these datacenters are up and running in 2018 that will push Microsoft
to a total of 40 global datacenters for their cloud based services.

Bringing these datacenters online in South Africa means companies no longer
have to go *off-continent* for their cloud delivered products and services:

*"Currently many companies in Africa rely on cloud services delivered from
outside of the continent. Microsoft’s new investment will provide highly
available, scalable, and secure cloud services across Africa with the
option of data residency in South Africa. With the introduction of these
new cloud regions, Microsoft has now announced 40 regions around the world
– more than any major cloud provider. The combination of Microsoft’s global
cloud infrastructure with the new regions in Africa will connect businesses
with opportunity across the globe, help accelerate new investments, and
improve access to cloud and internet services for people and organizations
from Cairo to Cape Town."*

You can read more about today's announcement on the Official Microsoft blog
<https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/05/18/microsoft-deliver-microsoft-cloud-datacenters-africa/>
or
the MEA News Center
<https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/2017/05/18/microsoft-deliver-microsoft-cloud-datacenters-africa-enable-greater-innovation-entrepreneurship-economic-growth/#sm.000010vo5kesgevgrzk2b6qa4dx31>
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