Cassava Technologies, a global technology company, through its businesses—Africa Data Centers and Liquid C2—has expanded Africa’s cloud resilience capabilities after Africa Data Centers was designated a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro peering location in Johannesburg.
This marks a significant milestone for Africa’s digital infrastructure and cloud ecosystem, reinforcing Cassava’s role as a key enabler of secure, resilient, and high-performance digital services across the continent.
By leveraging its status as the only provider with an on-net presence in both locations, Liquid C2, Cassava’s cloud and cybersecurity business, will deliver Secure CloudConnect. This fully managed service combines resilient private cloud connectivity with integrated cybersecurity solutions, providing organizations with a secure path to Microsoft Azure.
As the first ExpressRoute Metro location in Africa, Johannesburg joins a select group of global technology hubs offering organizations access to a new level of cloud resilience and security. Africa Data Centres’ JHB1 facility becomes the second peering location within the Johannesburg metro, offering a local ExpressRoute Metro capability. ExpressRoute Metro routes a single connection through two peering locations in the same metro, adding built-in redundancy for mission-critical workloads.
This comes as regulators are placing greater emphasis on operational resilience, business continuity, risk management, and data protection.
Liquid C2’s Secure CloudConnect addresses these requirements by helping organizations reduce the risk of disruption, strengthen their security posture, and simplify the management of complex cloud environments while meeting regulatory and governance expectations. Customers benefit from a single trusted provider while gaining access to infrastructure designed to support business-critical operations.
This milestone marks a significant step forward for African enterprise digital transformation. By bridging hyper-scale infrastructure with managed cloud security, Cassava Technologies is actively future-proofing businesses across the continent, ensuring they have the speed, agility, and protection required to compete in the global digital economy.
