Boston IT Solutions South Africa, a business of Boston Limited, is pleased to announce a partnership with Liquid C2, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies. The partnership is meant to a turnkey solution to deploy hybrid cloud infrastructure on the African continent. Boston’s value-adds to Liquid C2 included designing the solution, as well as hardware and software integration.
Liquid C2 operates Africa’s widest Azure Stack deployment across four countries and deployed the only African Cyber Security Fusion Centres in South Africa and Kenya, with another four to be launched in 2023.
The first of these Azure centres will be launched in Zambia, enabling businesses in the region to access cloud solutions that meet the local data regulatory requirements and efficiently run latency-sensitive business applications.
According to Winston Ritson, Chief Operations Officer of Liquid C2, “The availability of Azure Stack in the country means that through our partnership with Boston, we can ensure that businesses comply with their country’s data sovereignty and compliance laws. In addition to being able to cater to the ever-growing demand for cloud solutions, we are now confident that our customers will experience the same consistent services across the continent.”
“We do not drop boxes. We are enthusiastic about the value we add to customers,” said Chris Coetzee, Business Director, Boston IT Solutions South Africa.
As the longest-standing global supplier of Supermicro, Boston is expertly positioned to add value to customers. Boston’s value-adds to Liquid C2 included designing the solution, as well as hardware and software integration.
Additionally, the partnership will ensure that units are shipped directly to the country, the kit is installed onsite, and final testing is done before going live. Most importantly, Liquid C2 and their customers will also take advantage of the 24×7 next-business-day onsite support.
This unique service offered by Boston is unmatched by any other distribution in the region. As a result of the reference architecture, this solution can be easily replicated and deployed in multiple remote locations throughout Africa.
By providing a turnkey solution for each installation, Liquid C2 can efficiently set up Azure clusters for their customers. This turnkey cluster offers them a reduced total cost of ownership, TCO while shortening their return on investment, ROI period. This results in savings for their customers.
Liquid C2 is a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a pan-African technology group, offering managed cloud and security services, product solutions, and related professional and advisory services in 22 African countries. It operates Africa’s widest Azure Stack deployment across four countries and deployed the only African Cyber Security Fusion Centres in South Africa and Kenya, with another four to be launched in 2023.
Liquid C2 was selected as an Operator Connect launch partner by Microsoft in six countries. The organisation was a finalist in the Microsoft Partner of the Year 2021 in South Africa and Microsoft Partner of the Year in Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire in 2022 and 2023.
Boston IT Solutions South Africa is a business of Boston Limited. Boston Limited has been synonymous with servers, storage, and solutions for 30 years.
