Enterprise Cyber Security Firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce that it has expanded its data center facilities in South Africa and is planning further deployments across the African continent.
The announcement was made at a gathering of enterprise and government customers from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Mauritius. It follows the rebranding of Trend Micro's enterprise cybersecurity business to TrendAI in March — a change that applies to parent company Trend Micro's business-to-business arm, which retains its consumer cybersecurity business under the Trend Micro brand and its automotive cybersecurity subsidiary, Vikvan.
Asad ArabicTrendAI's regional MD for Africa and enterprise markets told attendees that South Africa is one of only two markets in the Middle East and Africa region where the company has invested in enhancing local data center infrastructure, the other being the UAE. He said the investment was driven directly by customers in financial services and government, who were blocked by local regulations from using the company's platforms when they were hosted offshore.
The South African facility supports hybrid and multi-cloud integration, AI-powered infrastructure monitoring and disaster recovery. Includes audit logging and compliance reporting for regulated industries in all environments.
TrendAI also revealed a second phase of investment targeting customers who may not use cloud infrastructure at all: Sovereign Private Cloud, a product. It mimics TrendAI's cloud platform for on-premises, air-gapped deployment, and is aimed at customers in defense and critical government departments. Air-gapped deployment is a high-security installation method where the computer system is physically isolated from the Internet and any unsecured, external networks.
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Bilal Baig, TrendAI's vice president for Asia, the Middle East and Africa, outlined three enhancements being rolled out locally. The first is a generic AI-powered security information and event management system that the company says can classify unfamiliar log formats in three hours, down from three days previously.
The second is a vulnerability management tool that maps every possible attack path an adversary could take through an environment and predicts the consequences of leaving a vulnerability unpatched.
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The third is an AI security layer that covers the entire stack of AI deployment, from the data and application layers to the underlying infrastructure.
Arabic said TrendAI Reported 80% year-on-year revenue growth in its Africa and Mediterranean region in the first quarter of 2026. Without disclosing rand numbers, he said investment in South Africa would double in the current year and the year after.
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TrendAI said additional African data center deployments are planned, but did not name specific countries or provide a timeline. – (c) 2026 NewsCentral Media
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