{"id":1223400,"date":"2022-10-13T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/microsoft-liquid-cloud-launch-support-for-african-businesses\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:06:43","slug":"microsoft-liquid-cloud-launch-support-for-african-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/microsoft-liquid-cloud-launch-support-for-african-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Liquid Cloud launch support for African businesses\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/microsoft(1).jpeg\" alt=\"Microsoft, Liquid Cloud launch support for African businesses\u00a0\" class=\" bd-imagestyles-16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nMicrosoft, Liquid Cloud launch support for African businesses\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Microsoft, through its Africa Transformation Office (ATO), has announced a partnership with Liquid Cloud to provide cloud services to businesses across the continent.<\/h2>\n<p>Liquid Cloud and the ATO will collaborate to deliver resilient cloud in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to meet regulatory and data residency requirements, address low latency workloads, strengthen resilience, and enable business continuity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We witnessed an accelerated adoption of cloud technologies in Africa, and businesses are now reaping the benefits of their investment. Our customers are increasingly moving to hybrid work culture, meaning the demand for cloud-based services will only grow,\u201d said the CEO of Liquid Cloud and Cyber Security, David Behr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hybrid cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, customers will be able to innovate anywhere and use the Azure platform to bring new solutions to life that solves today&#8217;s challenges, while creating the future,\u201d Mr Behr stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager, Africa Regional Cluster, of Microsoft, Wael Elkabbany, said: &#8220;Critical infrastructure enablers are needed to provide access to the cloud to accelerate digital transformation and the adoption of digital technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with Liquid Cloud, access to the local cloud will be available to more organisations and highly regulated industries across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, hybrid cloud provides in-country resources that address data-residency, latency, and storage requirements,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"31e400865097f58a589b5639-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"31e400865097f58a589b5639-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, Liquid Cloud launch support for African businesses\u00a0 Microsoft, through its Africa Transformation Office (ATO), has announced a partnership with Liquid Cloud to provide cloud services to businesses across the continent. 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