The Cameroonian IT services company, ST Digital, announced on December 5, 2023, the launch of the first cloud service platform based in Cameroon and operated by Cameroonians: www.cloudstore .africa. This cloudstore allows you to have access to services such as website hosting, virtual servers, domain names, email boxes from servers located in Cameroon and “ without losing the comfort and performance of major publisher solutions can ,” explains ST Digital.
According to the company, the process of accessing these services is, in addition, completely automated from ordering to delivery. In addition to bank cards, the platform also integrates payment methods such as mobile money. All at “ extremely affordable rates .”
For the managing director of ST Digital, Anthony Same, www.cloudstore.africa is presented as a response to “ the question of data sovereignty ”. “The location of data and applications storage is a major sovereignty issue. Indeed, it would not be understandable that in the event of diplomatic or commercial disagreement with one of the major digital players, Cameroonian citizens would be deprived of their access to their emails or their information systems. Similarly, Cameroonian data stored in third-party jurisdictions must first obey the rules of these jurisdictions before obeying national rules,” explains ST Digital.
If he shares this concern, Désiré Kammogne, development director at Wise Host, a company specializing in software development, hopes that connectivity problems will not be an obstacle to the smooth running of this cloudstore. On this point, ST Digital reassures: “ at ST Digital we have more than 6 internet access providers, which allows us in the event of a breakdown on one of the networks to switch to the other . Similarly, from a contractual point of view, our customers can maintain their agreements with their incumbent operators and migrate to the cloud with complete transparency and flexibility,” explained Anthony Same in an interview. granted to Invest in Cameroon in 2021.
Created in April 2017, ST Digital is now present in seven countries in Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin and DRC). Based in Douala, Cameroon, the company offers, in addition to the cloud, digital transformation consulting services, integration services, training, application development and cybersecurity.
Sandrine Gainne