11th October 2022 3:51:57 PM
2 mins readMicrosoft has established a partnership with Liquid Cloud through its Africa Transformation Office (ATO) to supply cloud services to businesses throughout the continent as the need for cloud-based services develops owing to the acceptance of hybrid work.
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In order to meet legal and data residency requirements, handle low latency workloads, boost resilience, and enable business continuity, Liquid Cloud and the ATO will work together to supply resilient cloud in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.“We witnessed an accelerated adoption of cloud technologies in Africa, and businesses are now reaping the benefits of their investment.
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Our customers are increasingly moving to hybrid work culture, meaning the demand for cloud-based services will only grow. Our partnership will enable us to build comprehensive and edge-based cloud capabilities that meet customer regulatory requirements and ensure that they deliver value to their customers,” said David Behr, CEO of Liquid Cloud and Cyber Security.
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The hybrid cloud environment extends Azure capabilities enabling customers to create cloud-native applications faster with Azure platform and data services such as App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Azure SQL Managed Instance, PostgreSQL database, and Azure machine learning.
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As a result, customers will be able to innovate anywhere and use the Azure platform to bring new solutions to life that solves today’s challenges, while creating the future.On his part, Wael Elkabbany, General Manager Africa Regional Cluster, Microsoft said: “Critical infrastructure enablers are neededto provide access to the cloud to accelerate digitaltransformation and the adoption of digital technologies.
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Working with Liquid Cloud, access to the local cloud will be available to more organizations and highly regulated industries across the continent. In addition, hybrid cloud provides in-country resources that address data-residency, latency, and storage requirements,”
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