Kenya: Angani Turns Talk Into Business As the Transition to the Cloud Begins to Take Wing

14 December 2018

London — There was a time when if you could have had US$100 for every time there was a mention of the cloud at a conference, you would have been a very rich man. But it was largely talk rather than walk. Russell Southwood talks Riyaz Bachani, CEO, Angani about how talk is finally turning into business.

Cloud provider Angani was launched as a start-up in 2014 and Bachani was bought in to restructure things and run the company in 2016. He says that it was launched "to fill the gap in providing reliable hosting infrastructure, starting in Nairobi but then across the continent:"With infrastructure and mutualisation we can provide for failure across the different elements."

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