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Cellulant , Ecobank and GAINDE 2000 sign a partnership with KenTrade to provide a payment gateway
To offer efficient and robust services to their customers , KenTrade has entered into a consortium partnership with Cellulant , Ecobank and GAINDE 2000 . With this new partnership , importers and exporters will enjoy premium services on the TradeNet system , an online platform , which serves as a single entry point for parties involved in international trade and transport logistics .
Akshay Grover , Acting CEO , Cellulant , said that the partnership with KenTrade is a testament to Cellulant ’ s commitment to partner with both private and government entities to drive digital payments adoption in all sectors .
“ We recognise that trade is a critical element for economic growth for any country . Africa has tremendous resources , and facilitating easy movement of import and export goods will increase intra-Africa trade and give the continent a share of the world trade ,” Grover said .
Amos Wangora , CEO , KenTrade , said : “ Payment Gateway will allow for our partner government agencies to monitor and validate the payments in real-time , which speaks to our mantra on the ease of doing business .”
Mortalla Diop , Senior Executive Director , Business Development and International Affairs , Gainde 2000 said KenTrade and GAINDE 2000 embarked on a strong collaboration since 2012 with the launch of the single window implementation in Kenya .
Western Digital reimagines the hard drive
At the company ’ s HDD Reimagine event ,
Western Digital Corp recently introduced a new flash-enhanced drive architecture that breaks traditional boundaries of storage . Building on the company ’ s ability to innovate with HDD and flash , the new storage architecture with OptiNAND technology optimises and integrates HDDs with iNAND embedded flash drives . This stated the vendor , gives customers – like hyperscale cloud , CSPs , enterprises , smart video surveillance partners , NAS suppliers and more – a solution to meet the exponential growth in data creation by delivering the capacity , performance and reliability needed to store vast amounts of data today and well into the future .
“ With our IP and world-class development teams in HDD and flash , we are able to continuously push the boundaries of innovation to improve our customers ’ storage infrastructure ,” said Siva Sivaram , President , Global Technology and Strategy , Western
Digital . “ We have had an extraordinary journey of HDD innovation . We changed everything with HelioSeal in 2013 , were first to ship energy-assisted HDDs in volume in 2019 and now we ’ re going to lead again with
OptiNAND technology . This architecture will underpin our HDD technology roadmap for multiple generations as we expect that an ePMR HDD with OptiNAND will reach 50TB in the second half of the decade .” p
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