Tag: Cloud services

Niral Patel to lead Google Cloud operations in Sub-Saharan Africa

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SSA – Google has appointed former Oracle South Africa Managing Director  Niral Patel as head of its cloud operations in sub-Saharan Africa. His official title is regional director at Google Cloud, which is the world’s third-largest cloud computing infrastructure provider after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. He will be based in Johannesburg. “He will have overall responsibility for the company’s sales strategy and continued development of its go-to-market sales operations,” Google said in a statement. “Patel will be focused on supporting the growth and scale of Google Cloud customers across…

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Liquid Telecom Kenya rebrands to Liquid Intelligent Technologies, establishes itself as the digital service partner of choice

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KENYA – Liquid Intelligent Technologies Kenya, part of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies group, a pan-African technology company, has unveiled its new brand identity, reflecting the organisation’s extensive business transformation from being a telecommunications and digital services provider to a full one-stop-shop technology group for local businesses. Over the last two decades, Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading pan-African digital infrastructure provider. The rebrand to Liquid Intelligent Technologies highlights the organization’s expansion of its Cloud business, Cybersecurity services, and other technologies added to its existing telecoms and connectivity capability.…

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TymeBank secures US$110m investment from Apis Growth Fund II

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SOUTH AFRICA – Digital retail bank TYMEBANK has secured an investment of US$110 million from new investors in the UK and Philippines to bolster growth and secure path to commercial success. TymeBank said the investment represents a strong endorsement for both TymeBank as one of the world’s fastest growing digital banks and for South Africa’s banking sector overall. TymeBank is the first bank in South Africa to be operated fully off a cloud-based infrastructure network and is also the first bank to be granted a commercial banking licence since 1999.…

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Orange Business Services to build new data center for cloud services in Egypt

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EGYPT – Orange Business Services, a network-native digital services company, has announced that it will design and build a new data center to provide cloud services for Egypt’s ‘New Administrative Capital’. The project will be implemented in collaboration with Orange Egypt, who will supply the required infrastructure and services, following their appointment as the project’s prime contractor by Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) – owner and developer of the New Administrative Capital. The ACUD project has been designed as a smart sustainable city located 45 kilometers east of Cairo…

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