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APAC
Nokia has announced that it has been awarded two
contracts with China-based webscale giants, Tencent and
Baidu, for data centre interconnect (DCI) network solutions.
Tencent and Baidu will strengthen their already strong
relationship with Nokia to build out its software-defined
DCI infrastructure, providing them with the dynamic,
massive-scale optical bandwidth needed to support
growing cloud operations in China and the US.
AFRICA
Scale Computing, a market leader in Edge Computing,
virtualisation and hyperconverged solutions, has announced
a strategic partnership with Mustek, one of the largest
assemblers and distributors of personal computers and
complementary ICT products in South Africa. The agreement
will enable Mustek to provide Scale Computing’s
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) series, including the
HC3, to partners throughout South Africa.
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