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How will the rollout of Microsoft's SA datacentres work?

How will the rollout of Microsoft's datacentres work, and what can enterprises look forward to?

01 June 2017

Axl Mattheus, a cloud solutions architect at Microsoft SA, says the data centres would come online for general availability sometime next year, but large Azure customers, typically spending more than $750 000 a year on Azure, would get ‘preview' access.

Speaking at partner event for the enterprise software company Atlassian in Johannesburg this week, he says these large customers could begin experimenting immediately, and would be able to shift and test their workloads to Azure. He says he believes the data centres will be called South Africa North and South Africa West.

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