Huawei is one phone brand gaining a competitive edge in the international markets. Having beaten Apple in China, now it stretches to South Africa. The unbeaten company is set to build data centers in South Africa
Huawei will have its cloud service available to organizations in South Africa as well as neighboring countries, it said.
The Chinese firm, at the center of global security concerns, sets out to challenge Amazon.com Inc., which is also growing its existence in the developing tech hub of South Africa’s Capital-Cape town in a challenge against cloud computing rival Microsoft Corp.
China’s Huawei will build two data centers in South Africa from March, it said, as part of plans to expand cloud services across Africa.
“The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centers in Johannesburg initially and later Cape Town,” Huawei said in a statement.
Its cloud service will be available to organizations in South Africa as well as neighboring countries, it said.
In the last quarter of 2018 AWS’s revenue grew 46 percent to $7 billion while Microsoft’s grew 76 percent to $4 billion to remain in second place, data from research firm analysis showed.