JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Huawei Cloud’s business in South Africa has grown fast over the past five years and it plans to launch more cloud solutions to expand market share to boost revenue, a company executive said on Thursday.
Increased demand for faster computing from South African firms and the government has attracted big cloud operators into the country, with Huawei the first international vendor to host a local ‘hyperscale’ cloud data centre in South Africa in 2019.
She told reporters that the total revenue amount “is still not so big”, which has encouraged the company to launch more cloud solutions and capture a larger share of the country’s market.
The cloud market in South Africa is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of around 26% between 2023 and 2028 to 113 billion rand ($6 billion) in value, according to market research company Africa Analysis.
The adoption of artificial intelligence is also driving spending by corporate customers.
“Go to cloud or not, is not an option anymore. The question is how far and how to do it quickly,” Huawei Cloud South Africa Chief Executive Steven Chen told reporters.
