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Huawei wants to invest $10 million in 100 Nigerian startups in the next three years, to vie for a share of the local cloud market in Nigeria.

Information management services are designed to help organisations collect, store and manage their data more efficiently.

Notwithstanding the investments that have gone into Nigeria’s data centre sub-sector, there are concerns that capacity utilisation of these facilities remains very poor when compared to other countries within the region, including South Africa, Kenya and others.

Global cloud service providers are paying closer attention to smaller but fast growing markets as sales at home slow down.

The nation’s pursuit of becoming a central hub for data and technology in the sub-region has received impetus from the formalisation of a partnership between Africa Data Centres (ADC) – a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group – and the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

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By focusing on training and providing digital infrastructure and services, Amazon is pointing to where it sees value in the African market.

Download logoThe African data center market is in the midst of a remarkable growth surge, according to new research released by Xalam Analytics

Drawing on its years-long work connecting clients through data centres, WIOCC has launched its own venture, leveraging its network to build the cloud infrastructure Africa needs. CEO Chris Wood shares the details with Melanie Mingas

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