Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 12:35 PM
Casablanca- The Huawei Group has just announced its participation in a conference organized recently by the Association of Users of Information Systems in Morocco (AUSIM) and Inwi on the theme “Ensuring agility and resilience through the Cloud ”.
The objective of this conference was to initiate the debate on the extent and importance of the implementation of the Cloud for Moroccan companies, said Huawei in a press release.
Quoted by the press release, Mounir Soussi, Vice-President Cloud & AI Africa at Huawei, noted in his speech the importance of achieving good data governance known as “digital sovereignty” for the development of the Moroccan economic fabric.
Mr. Soussi also explained that the Kingdom has the potential to play the role of a national and regional sovereign Cloud. “Africa hosts, only, about 1% of data centers in the world. The objective for Huawei is to help equip Africa with this storage infrastructure ”, he argued.
And to estimate that “the constraints related to the implementation of the Cloud will be solved thanks to the development of an ecosystem of local sovereign partnerships”.
The Vice-President Cloud & AI Africa at Huawei also underlined that thanks, in particular, to its partnership with Inwi, Huawei offers Moroccan companies innovative Cloud solutions that allow them to succeed in their digital transformation.
And to add in this sense that “the Huawei Group offers a full range of Cloud services or remote storage solutions accessible via the Internet”.
Moderated by Mr. Amine Harrari, Director of Digital Transformation at OCP Solutions, the conference was attended by renowned panelists in the sector, in particular Mr. Mohamed Saad, President of AUSIM and Deputy Managing Director in charge of the Resources Pole at the Casablanca Stock Exchange, Mr. Ouassim El Arroussi, Development Director of Inwi, Ms. Salima Amira, Managing Director of Microsoft Morocco and Mr. Fahd Meski, Technical Director Morocco and Deputy for the France region at Webhelp.
Huawei is a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, working with 45 of the top 50 operators in the global market. Established in Morocco in 2002, with a first office in Rabat then in Casablanca, Huawei has created between 700 and 800 direct and indirect jobs.
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