{"id":117695,"date":"2017-05-20T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117695"},"modified":"2017-05-20T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:50:53","slug":"microsoft-is-bringing-azure-servers-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/117695-microsoft-is-bringing-azure-servers-to-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is bringing Azure servers to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/microsoft-deliver-microsoft-cloud-datacenters-africa\/\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it will deliver cloud services from data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Services offered will include Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.<\/p>\n<p>Although Microsoft did not state who it will partner with for the local data centres, an industry source told MyBroadband that\u00a0two data centre players will be involved \u2013 a different one for each city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new Microsoft Cloud regions will offer enterprise-grade reliability and performance combined with data residency,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>This will help\u00a0organisations\u00a0and people from across Africa\u00a0accelerate their journey to cloud computing, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The data centre presence in South Africa will bring Microsoft to 40 cloud regions around the world \u2013 more than any other cloud provider.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/211322-microsoft-azure-servers-coming-to-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/52001-windows-azure-confirmed-for-sa.html\">Windows Azure confirmed for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that it will deliver cloud services from data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":87670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[12138,91,99],"class_list":["post-117695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-azure","tag-microsoft","tag-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}