Cassava Technologies subsidiary Liquid Intelligent Technologies has launched a Microsoft Azure Stack in Uganda.
Local businesses will now be able to access Microsoft Azure's cloud solution while meeting local data regulatory requirements.
Michael Mukasa, CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies Uganda, said: “The Azure Stack hub in the country will be a game-changer for local businesses. It will provide them with cost-effective access to local cloud solutions, help them meet local data regulatory requirements, and enable them to run latency-sensitive business applications efficiently."
The deployment is hoped to help both large enterprises, as well as small and medium businesses.
The launch demonstrates Liquid's support of the Uganda Digital Transformation Roadmap that seeks to connect 90 percent of households in the country to the Internet by 2040.
The company has not shared which data center the Azure Stack will be housed in. Cassava's Africa Data Centres unit doesn't currently have a facility in Uganda.
Raxio Group has a colocation facility in the country, located just outside of Kampala. MTN also claims to have six data centers in Uganda which across them have the capacity for 972 racks.
Liquid has thus far deployed Microsoft Azure Stacks in five countries in Africa. The company teamed up with Boston IT Solutions in August 2023 to deploy the Azure infrastructure across Africa, starting with Zambia.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies is a pan-African digital infrastructure provider. The company has a 110,000 km-long fiber broadband network and provides satellite connectivity across the continent.
Earlier this month, Liquid's parent company Cassava Technologies launched an artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated unit, Cassava AI. The company aims to bring AI capacity to markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where Cassava Technologies operates and will build on existing partnerships the company has with Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Oracle, Atlas AI, Cerebras, and Palo Alto Networks.
