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Speaker 1: Eight minutes an out of four o'clock and seven oh

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Speaker 1: two is in conversation with MTN Business discussing how MTN's

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Speaker 1: Cloud Solution Tower is helping SMEs become more agile, scalable,

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Speaker 1: and cost efficient. Running a small business is not just

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Speaker 1: about having a great idea, it's about having the right

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Speaker 1: tools to grow it. That's exactly where MTN Business comes in.

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Speaker 1: Beyond the seven oh two MTN Small Business Awards, they're

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Speaker 1: doing a lot more to support SMEs. And today we're

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Speaker 1: in conversation with Sudiptor Muitra, who is GM for Enterprise

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Speaker 1: Solutions at MTN Business, talking about the MTN Cloud Solution

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Speaker 1: Tower and how it helps small businesses become more agile, scalable,

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Speaker 1: and cost efficient, all the while unlocking innovation. Simuito welcome,

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Speaker 1: it's good to heavy with us on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, good afternoon. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: When people talk about the cloud, many people understand the

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Speaker 1: convenience but worry about the security. What's etian business response?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm sure as you sell product, people will say,

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Speaker 1: well this looks good, but hey we don't want to

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Speaker 1: get scammed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question I think for MTN for

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Speaker 2: our three hundred million plus subscribers we have on the

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Speaker 2: continent and for our empty and business where we take

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Speaker 2: our solutions in the B to B space. You know,

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Speaker 2: the security controls across the stack is very important. Basic

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Speaker 2: fundamentals like single sign on with multi factor authentication, you know,

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Speaker 2: and also looking at some of the new trends and

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Speaker 2: controls on the policies for zero trust network access becomes

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Speaker 2: quite pivotal. And that along with the security on the device,

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Speaker 2: you know, with things like mobile device management, and fundamentally

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Speaker 2: the application control you know, for what the end user

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Speaker 2: is consuming becomes super critical. And those are the things

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Speaker 2: we provide from a security control perspective on all the

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Speaker 2: cloud environment.

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Speaker 1: So everything is changing at incredible speed. Nothing is moving

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Speaker 1: faster than AI. Data analytical opportunities and techniques and technologies

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Speaker 1: are shifting all the time. I mean, what is EMPT

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Speaker 1: and how are you factoring in AI for example, because

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Speaker 1: it's a really is a moving target, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great thing. And that's where I think

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Speaker 2: we hear about the concept of born in the cloud right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, most of the applications, whether it is we

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Speaker 2: are consuming as a software as a service or infrastructure

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Speaker 2: as a service you know, comes with the inherent AI

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Speaker 2: capabilities you know, so we don't need to build those

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Speaker 2: AI those are integral part of it. Whether we look

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Speaker 2: at productivity applications like Microsoft Copilot, you know, that's a

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Speaker 2: particular AI driven stream that comes with and effectively helps

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Speaker 2: to make sure that the modern four II technologies are

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Speaker 2: part of the of the equation.

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Speaker 1: It's a competitive space. Empt In is not the only

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Speaker 1: player in this space. If you're facing a room of

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Speaker 1: people and everybody's pitching intient business cloud solutions, how do

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Speaker 1: you think you different? What if do you believe gives

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Speaker 1: you the age?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think there are few elements we believe we

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Speaker 2: are doing different. That's very relevant to the SME space.

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Speaker 2: First of all, we bring all the global you know,

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Speaker 2: cloud solution in country you know, so from the hyperscalers

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Speaker 2: to the the productivity applications, we bring that to beay. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: I think it's also an opportunity for us to look

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Speaker 2: at our connectivity, which is the bedrock of anything. It's

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Speaker 2: not just having the cloud. How do we bundle how

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Speaker 2: do we package that together? That becomes very important. And

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Speaker 2: then thirdly, we are also looking at you know, making

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Speaker 2: sure that other telco assets like for example, fintech that

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Speaker 2: a SEME would need bringing all of these things together

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Speaker 2: under one stop shop, you know, and the commercial proposition

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Speaker 2: thereof hopefully helps us to grow together with the semes. Well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Su Dipto mucha's GM for Enterprise Sols

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Speaker 1: at MTN Business talking about that company's MPTN Cloud Solution Tower.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on seven h two drive.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much again for having me so How many.

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Speaker 1: Of you are still running your business from portable hard drive?

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Speaker 1: Every important file, every invoice, all sitting on one little

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Speaker 1: device that could give up at any moment. One power search,

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Speaker 1: one accidental drop and it's all over. Your business deserves secure,

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Speaker 1: reliable cloud storage that works as hard as you do.

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