Liquid Telecom Kenya offices on Mombasa Road in Nairobi. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
Liquid Telecom has partnered with Strathmore Business School
(SBS) to set up a data analytics centre focused on data-driven research.
Under
the partnership, Liquid will provide the new Strathmore Africa
Analytics Data Centre with dedicated rack space and colocation services
at the East Africa Data Centre (EADC) located at Sameer Industrial Park
along Mombasa Road.
Colocation is the housing of
privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a third party data
centre, with the service including provision of space, electricity,
cooling and security for the servers.
The Internet service provider
will also establish a direct fibre link between the SBS campus and EADC
in Nairobi, which will facilitate data analytic services such as data
mining, predictive analysis and exploratory data analysis.
“Strathmore envision a data centre that will cultivate data
analytics to help executive entrepreneurs and government make data
driven decisions.
“We feel it’s a moral duty to
include the new data modules into the entire curriculum of our
university,” says Dr George Njenga, Dean Strathmore Business School in a
statement Thursday.
EADC is the region’s largest and only Tier III certified data centre standing on 1,000 square feet.
It
hosts servers for Tata, Level3, Seacom, Safaricom , JamiiTelcom, Access
Kenya, Orange Telkom Kenya Ltd, Wananchi Online, and Frontier Optical
Network and Liquid Telecom.
The centre also hosts
points of presence for global carriers owning fibre network
infrastructure as well as carriers with international coverage.
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