Government data must stay in South Africa, says state technology executive: Data sovereignty is a key priority for governments and other entities as they migrate to public cloud services
Businesses and state institutions use the cloud as a way of organising, processing and presenting data. Public cloud services allow entities to forego the option of purchasing servers and renting space at local data centres.
Sita’s cloud infrastructure uses Huawei-manufactured equipment and is run and managed by the technology agency. However, the government has not taken a decision to use only Huawei. Data sovereignty was one of the key subjects of the Huawei Cloud Summit on Thursday. Steven Yi, the president of Huawei in the Middle East and Africa, said the Chinese tech multinational would help all countries in the region to master their own digital transformation.
Huawei forecasts that by 2025, 90% of traditional data centres will have closed down. By then, 100% of enterprises will be using the cloud, according to Huawei, which, during the summit, touted itself as “a strategic partner” in the digital transformation of countries in the Middle East and Africa. Spending on cloud services in the Middle East and Africa region is forecast to grow at 28% to $6.2-billion in 2022.
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