Liquid Telecom is announcing the culmination of all its business from being a telecommunications and digital services provider to a full one-stop-shop technology group. The company is rebranding its name from Liquid Telecom to Liquid Intelligent Technologies to mark this change.
Over the last two decades, Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading pan-African digital infrastructure provider with an extensive network spanning over 73,000 KM. This rebrand to Liquid Intelligent Technologies highlights the organisation’s expansion of its Cloud business, Cyber Security services, and other technologies added to its existing telecoms and connectivity capability.
This furthers the Group’s aim of accelerating growth by providing tailor-made digital solutions to businesses in the public and private sectors across the continent. This strategic rebrand reflects Liquid’s new digital-first product offerings, enabling employees and customers to interact with each other digitally irrespective of the time or location.
By aggressively expanding into new countries, including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liquid Intelligent Technologies is bringing its award-winning high-performance network connectivity closer to more people and accelerating the development of the digital workplace.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies will expand its Managed Services offerings to drive and ensure successful adoption of tools to re-imagine their customers’ businesses and how they work and connect. Whether they are focused on enabling collaboration or utilising the most advanced cloud applications.
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Liquid is redefining Network, Cloud and Cyber Security offerings through strategic partnerships with leading global players, bringing innovative business applications, intelligent cloud services and world-class security to the African continent.
With the future of network security-driven from the cloud, Liquid Intelligent Technologies’ recently launched its Cyber Security business unit, which uniquely delivers security at its core, protecting your business’s data throughout its lifecycle.
According to Nic Rudnick, Group Chief Executive Officer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, “Our ongoing investment in our networks and data centres across Africa has uniquely positioned us to utilise our infrastructure to accelerate the availability of new intelligent technologies including the high computing power of the Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security to our customers. We are now excited to be executing our vision of bringing new technological opportunities to the market with a highly differentiated product set supported by our existing infrastructure and digital innovation.”
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South and central Africa telecommunications company, Liquid Telecom, introduces 21CSkills online learning platform. To help technology workers in Africa develop the skills they need to succeed in the 21 st century.
21CSkills, 21st Century Skills for Africa, will offer training skills and development programmes for African students, techies and entrepreneurs. Tracks of study in over 200 courses include Data Science, Blockchain, Game Development, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). “You will earn industry recognized certifications that will open new doors“, Liquid telecom says about learning on the platform.
21CSkills, is helping African students, developers and start-ups gain the tech skills they’ll need to succeed in the 21st century.
Head of Digital Education at Liquid telecom, Helinna Ayalew shares the platform is for everyone who wants to learn more. She encourages anyone with a university degree, just curious or an industry professional who wants to gain industry certification to give it ago.
There’s a proliferation of smart connected devices across the continent. So it just makes sense to be able to reach people with the required set of skills through an online platform like 21st Century Skills for Africa. – Mark Ihimoyan, Director of Business Development Microsoft Middle East Africa.
21CSkills at Nairobi Garage meetup
Liquid telecom is partnering with Microsoft and education platform, Open edX to power the learning platform.
Liquid Telecom hosted an Azure Accelerator conference in Mauritius in partnership with Microsoft. The event saw attendees learning how to benefit from Microsoft’s Azure and cloud services.
This year Microsoft announced Africa cloud datacenters for customers and organizations in the region. Microsoft cloud partner Liquid Telecom, together with Microsoft invited organizations to the event to learn and explore what the African Azure Cloud meant for African businesses.
Event speakers expounded on digital transformation, cloud trends, cyber security, their impact in the cloud and more. The Azure Accelerator Conference in Mauritius also showcased how some local businesses are already using the services. Participants were able to meet and network with Liquid Telecom and Microsoft experts.
The private and hybrid Microsoft cloud delivers a cybersecurity step-change for East Africa’s data-sensitive organisations, providing a doorway to high-speed data safety.
Nairobi, 16th May 2019:
Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has today launched a Microsoft Cloud service in East Africa that offers a step-change in cybersecurity for the region’s most sensitive databases.
The new Azure Stack service will allow companies to run a private Microsoft cloud within East Africa, rather than at one of Microsoft’s 54 public data centres located outside the region. This means users benefit from the cutting-edge security protocols developed and run by Microsoft on its cloud platforms, while holding their data locally, which makes data uploading faster for databases that can be as large as one terabyte or more.
The service will be available from today across East Africa, hosted in private cloud nodes in Kenya and Tanzania, which makes it possible to replicate databases at different locations to increase reliability and flexibility.
“The data transmission time to Europe is around 200 milliseconds, and for the closest Microsoft cloud server, in South Africa, 55 milliseconds. But the new Azure Stacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam will mean data transfer speeds of less than 20 milliseconds for all users within East Africa,” said Winston Ritson, Group Head of Cloud Services for the Liquid Telecom Group.
This increase in speeds will transform back-ups and uploads from previously lengthy processes to swift data exchanges. Globally, companies have reported that this has transformed their operations. With one logistics company in California achieving a 50% improvement in service delivery on increased data speeds.
Using Azure Stack also opens the way to a level of cybersecurity that few organisations have the capacity to develop. “Microsoft spends some $1bn a year on ensuring the security of its Azure platforms. This is a scale of spend and professional attention that companies cannot match or surpass in securing their data,” said Winston.
This comes as East Africa’s data security continues to deteriorate. In 2017, Kenya lost over Sh21bn to cybercrime. But the nation’s losses are forecast to rise further on new cyber threats. Including attacks on built-in Windows IT admin tools, PowerShell files and Windows Scripting executables.
“Developing the Azure Stack in East Africa has required intensive development and co-operation between Liquid Telecom and Microsoft.” said Adil El Youssefi, CEO East Africa, Liquid Telecom. “However, we believe that in offering a now unequalled level of cybersecurity, it has delivered yet another vital pillar to the economic development of Kenya and East Africa.”
Liquid Telecom and Microsoft host the Azure Accelerator Conference 2017 to inform on how to leverage the possibilities of the cloud.
Liquid Telecom a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider is working together with Microsoft to host this event. In August this year Liquid Telecom extended their serives to deliver Microsoft cloud products and services to businesses across Africa.
At the event scheduled to take place on the 20th of September 2017 @ the Nairobi Garage. Discussions will center around what the African Azure cloud means for African businesses. Conversations will be delivered by Microsoft and Liquid Telecom experts on digital transformation, cloud trends, cyber security and their impact in the cloud.
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Speakers of the event will come from both companies and include Microsoft East Africa general manager Sebuh Haileleul. Microsoft
WECA Corporate Affairs regulatory lead. Angela Ng’ang’a and Marc Israel, Microsoft WECA Cloud & Enterprise Business Group Lead and Liquid Telecom Group Product Manager Microsoft Products, Winston Ritson.
The event will also provide an opportunity to attendees to learn, share and network with like-minded individuals and get first-hand accounts from local businesses that are already using the versatile tools Microsoft Azure has to offer.
Registration for the event is up but spaces are already booked. But you can sign up to receive details or information. Heading to the Azure Accelerator Conference 2017? Let us know. We will try to bring you an update from the event, so look here for more.
