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Huawei is set to Revolutionize ICT Development in Kenya

BY Soko Directory Team · March 25, 2019 12:03 pm

The world is evolving thanks to the technological enhancement that is engulfing the world. The technological train has since left the station, those not on board risk never catching up and forever being left behind with no prospects of catching up.

There are efforts by many countries around the world to accelerate the digitization of various sectors, both within and without governments, mostly through the escalation of the convergence of both physical and digital worlds.

Many developing countries across the globe, Kenya included, are striving to install and embrace new technologies in the ICT sector in an effort to create new ecosystems and generally making ICT a cornerstone of industrial digitalization.

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Kenya, for instance, has the Ministry of ICT that has been on the forefront of laying down infrastructure aimed at placing the country on the global map through digital literacy and transformation.

The effort to transform a country digitally cannot be left at the disposal of the government alone. In fact, in many developed countries, independent ICT service providers are attributed to playing key roles in revolutionizing sectors when it comes to ICT.

The use of ICT Giants

Global ICT giants in ICT infrastructure provision such as Huawei, in line with their open, cooperative, and win-win principles are teaming up partners and developers to explore the road to digital transformation and create business success for customers by maximizing their robust ICT capabilities.

According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, Huawei’s storage products remain in the Leaders quadrant while their hyper-converged infrastructure product FusionCube moved to the Challengers quadrant.

According to reports released by IDC, the HUAWEI CLOUD Government Cloud Solution and HUAWEI CLOUD FusionInsight Big Data Solution ranked first in overall performance in the Chinese market. At the same time, the HUAWEI CLOUD FusionAccess Desktop Solution was China’s bestseller.

Kenya is also set to receive a boost in her effort to widen and leverage the ICT infrastructure through the partnership between Huawei and Redington.

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Last year Huawei signed the Framework Distribution Agreement in Kenya with Redington. These agreements signified that they will increase the Huawei enterprise business’s presence in the global market, accelerate ICT development.

Huawei has more than 13,000 channel partners, 860 solution partners, and 2,900 service partners working around the world to deliver innovative and practical solutions to enterprises in more than 170 countries. They  have also established global cooperation partnerships with companies such as SAP, Accenture, GE, Honeywell, Siemens, Alstom, Hexagon, Thales, VST ECS, Synnex, ALSO, and Redington

In Kenya this month, Huawei Enterprise looks forward to hosting Enterprise partners from all over the country at their Huawei Redington Summit on Wednesday 27 March 2019 at the Hall of Africa at the Hotel Mövenpick, Westlands, Nairobi.

Being a ‘Distributor of Choice’, Redington empowers brands with an extensive network of resellers to help them expand their reach and maximize value to their business, while catering to dynamically changing market requirements, and so it has been an easy choice for Huawei to partner with them on this summit.

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With the vision “To be the most preferred Value Added Distributor and Service Provider for all global brands in IT and Telecommunications within the  Middle East, Africa, Turkey and CIS countries” Reddington creates the platform for Huawei Enterprise to distribute their products and services with ease.

NOTE: Join the Huawei and Redington Partner Summit 2019 via LiveStreaming

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