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Pamoja, Microsoft in hybrid cloud deal

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's news editor.
Johannesburg, 27 Jul 2015
Together with Microsoft, Pamoja will work to implement hybrid solutions that minimise risk and simplify the move to the cloud, says Albie Bester, CEO at Pamoja.
Together with Microsoft, Pamoja will work to implement hybrid solutions that minimise risk and simplify the move to the cloud, says Albie Bester, CEO at Pamoja.

Pamoja, a Seacom-owned company that focuses on the establishment, aggregation and wholesale delivery of cloud services for the African market, has become a Microsoft-validated partner for the Microsoft Cloud Platform and the Azure global cloud.

The deal enables Pamoja to deliver Microsoft Cloud Platform-based data centre solutions to African enterprises and service providers from within Africa's borders.

Under the agreement, clients will benefit from access to hybrid cloud solutions that span their own data centres, the Microsoft Windows Azure infrastructure, and the Pamoja cloud.

Pamoja is the second cloud provider in Africa to be added to the list of partners who deliver Microsoft-validated solutions for the Microsoft Cloud Platform.

"We're delighted to form part of the Cloud OS Network, a worldwide group of select service providers that partner closely with Microsoft to offer customers hybrid cloud and Azure-enabled solutions," says Albie Bester, CEO at Pamoja.

"Together with Microsoft, we'll work to implement hybrid solutions that minimise risk and simplify the move to the cloud."

Customers can make decisions about where to host services based on business needs rather than technology limitations, Bester adds.

For example, they may want to keep data in a Pamoja data centre within their own country's borders to comply with data security and privacy laws. At the same time, they might want to use the Azure infrastructure for applications where they are not managing sensitive personal information, he adds.

The solution from Pamoja and Microsoft supports clients with a consistent hybrid cloud platform with integrated virtualisation to easily move workloads between environments without change. This enables better optimisation of IT resources while providing limitless scale, compute, storage, and networking for the countless day-to-day needs of operations and the workforce.

"Microsoft has both real public cloud scale experience and a deep understanding of legacy infrastructures, making it a perfect partner for our customers' needs. We will work with Microsoft and each client who wants to adopt a roadmap and meet business needs for compliance, security, and high availability."

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