Enterprise software and SaaS
Oxide Cloud Services says its Centurion AI pod has 260kW available and up to 50kW per rack. Customer numbers, pricing and utilisation are not disclosed.
Cape Town's Metacom designs the routers behind 6,000-plus ATMs, Pep stores and Eskom links. The AI memory crunch now has it ordering parts a year ahead.
Continent 8 plans to switch on its first African data centre in Johannesburg in Q4, targeting regulated betting with local cloud and cyber services.
Gole Cloud is pitching locally hosted infrastructure, rand pricing and local support to SA SMMEs as data sovereignty becomes a practical buying issue.
Salesforce opened Hyperforce in Cape Town on AWS. Local storage improves residency options, but some processing and service components can still leave SA.
UCT student startup Tennsa is connecting accounting, stock and payment systems for wholesalers and retailers that have outgrown spreadsheets but still sit below enterprise software.
Pilot’s Navigator lets South African restaurant operators question POS, purchasing and margin data in natural language instead of building manual reports.