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UCA and OADC partner to support Africa data sovereignty 

UCA and OADC partner to support Africa data sovereignty 

African data sovereignty is again in the news. UniCloud Africa (UCA), a pan-African sovereign cloud platform, and data centre company Open Access Data Centres (OADC), have announced a strategic partnership to, as they put it, accelerate Africa’s digital transformation and independence.

Through this partnership, UniCloud Africa will host its enterprise-grade sovereign cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure within OADC’s carrier-neutral facilities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa.

This collaboration, the partners say, establishes a robust, localised foundation for governments and enterprises to modernise their operations while ensuring absolute data residency and regulatory compliance.

The partnership aligns with UniCloud Africa’s ‘One Cloud, One Africa’ strategy, which seeks to eliminate the high latency and compliance risks associated with offshore cloud providers.

By utilising OADC’s Tier-III certified infrastructure, UniCloud Africa says it provides a high-performance environment for mission-critical workloads, supported by a contractual Tier-III certified uptime SLA.

Dr Krish Ranganath, CEO of UniCloud Africa says: "Our mission is to provide the definitive foundation for Africa’s digital and economic independence."

He continues: "By hosting our sovereign infrastructure within OADC’s world-class facilities, we are ensuring that African data remains on African soil. This partnership empowers our clients with low-latency access, local currency billing, and the security of ISO-certified, in-country data management that is tailor-made for the continent's unique requirements."

Beyond standard infrastructure, the partnership will support the deployment of UniCloud’s GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), enabling local organisations to harness the power of AI, machine learning, and big data at scale.

The partners add that, with zero data egress fees and billing in local currencies, the collaboration removes the financial barriers often posed by global cloud giants.



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