Safaricom Unveils Enhanced Cloud Computing Platform for Flexible and Resilient Business Operations

Safaricom announced that they launched a revamped in-country cloud computing platform and services, to help businesses and organisations digitise their operations, offer flexibility and resilience to ever changing environment.

The new cloud services, hosted in Data centres in Nairobi and Kisumu are powered by VMware technologies. The additional services include but are not limited to the ability for customers to run their applications with the flexibility to allocate cloud computing capabilities on a single pane of glass. The features allow customers to buy cloud computing capabilities in bulk and set up the environment to suit the business application requirements.

The cloud services will provide enterprise customers with the flexibility to grow their businesses by utilising computing resources in a scalable manner leveraging OPEX models. It will provide them the capabilities to run their business from anywhere with access to their operations being highly available thus providing reliable operations to their end customers.

The cloud services also include provision of secure hosting services for business applications while complying to data residency concerns, provision of secure connectivity and secure payment integrations to business applications hosted securely on the cloud.