Philippe Wang, Huawei: “We do not want to build our own data centres.”
Africa Business+ spoke with Catherine Chen and Philippe Wang, Corporate Vice President and a Director of the company’s Board and executive vice president for Northern Africa region of the Asian giant. It was an opportunity to discuss the group’s vision for data centres and its Harmony operating system.
14/12/2021 at 18h06, by Africa Business+
“For the time being, we do not want to build our own data centres to provide services to businesses. So this will be a separate strategy,” cautioned Philippe Wang, Huawei‘s executive vice president for Northern Africa region.
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