Liquid to grow cloud service foot-print
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- 29 Jul 2022
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LIquid Intelligent Technologies intends to grow use of its cloud services across the country as it spearheads adoption of cloud-based data centres within enterprises for enhanced data security and flexibility in work environments.
The data centres will be backed by Azure, which is a cloud computing service operated by Microsoft, for application management and managed data centres dotted around the world.
According to Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Azure will give companies computing power over large businesses without the need to invest in a large information technology staff, servers, and hardware.
This comes amid rapid technological changes in line with the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which has seen growth in the use of innovations such as artificial intelligence, internet of things and machine learning capabilities.
At the business level, Zimbabwe is one of the fast adopters of cloud services compared to a cluster of other African countries that the firm operates in including Kenya, Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa to a certain extent.
Cloud is a platform that uses computing models to make resources like virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage available to users remotely, this reduces the need for organisations to invest in servers and hardware on their premises.
Addressing business players and various IT engineers at an event hosted by the firm, Liquid Intelligent Technologies executive (presales and complex solutions) Tinashe Chidyausiku said adopting cloud was effective in cutting operational costs.
He said the technology allowed companies to have reduced risk of innovation given that business will not run the risk associated with huge investments into experimental projects that might not work out. Read More…
