DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 14 -- HUAWEI has launched its public cloud in South Africa a year ago and pan-African customers are already consuming services from the facility.

To this end, the company is planning points of presence in Nigeria and Kenya to make access to the South African data centre easier.

The first region, Johannesburg, is already running with additional facilities set to come online soon, says George Thomas, solutions manager of the Huawei cloud business unit Huawei Cloud offers about 180 services.

"First of all we opened our API gateway to integrate with customers' applications and many services are already up and running."

About 1,7-million developers are signed up to write new solutions on the platform. Huawei's public clou...