London — The data centre and cloud space in Sub-Saharan Africa is steadily growing and becoming more complex. In a perverse way, the current Covid-19 crisis is acting as a growth factor as larger numbers of Africans go online while at home. Russell Southwood spoke to Andrew Cruise, Managing Director, Routed about why he went the vendor neutral route.
Cruise was educated in the UK and then worked in consultancy and for a company doing managed hosting. In 2014, he decided to come back to South Africa and started thinking about what he might do there:"Initially South Africa was behind the rest of the world on these things. With improved connectivity, Cloud could become a product and it happened more quickly than I thought".
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