Data centres launched

* Microsoft has officially launched two Azure cloud data centres in SA, one in Cape Town and the other in Johannesburg, after the software giant missed an earlier deadline of December 2018 to take the facilities live. Lillian Barnard, newly appointed MD at Microsoft SA, said at a press conference in Johannesburg last week that the data centre region was live with immediate effect. ‘The enterprise-grade data centre regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg … will power cloud, artificial intelligence and edge computing innovations across the continent,’ Barnard said.