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AWS Opens New Offices in Johannesburg, South Africa
Today, tech giant Amazon and its cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services (AWS), have announced the opening of a new office in Johannesburg, South Africa to support growing customer demand for its services. According to a statement from the company,…
Pick n Pay Joins Forces with AWS Cloud
Pick n Pay Group, one of the largest retailers in South Africa has migrated its entire on-premises IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This is according to an announcement released today by the Amazon cloud computing company.…
New Details Revealed for Africa Data Centre’s $300-Million Expansion Plans
Cassava Technology’s pan-African data centre group Africa Data Centres (ADC) has today announced a drawing of the first portion of its $300-million strategic investment made by the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). The company says that this first…
Why Cloud Marketplaces Are Critical for True Digital Transformation
Integrating cloud marketplaces in your supply chain is no longer optional—it’s essential. Cloud-based marketplaces speed up the whole procurement chain, and they enhance control, risk management, and governance for businesses. According to a new Forrester report, software companies selling in…
8 Ways Edge Computing Can Future-Proof Your Business
Adopting edge computing is the next important step in future-proofing your infrastructure. By moving data processing towards the ‘edge’, you bring real-time decision-making to where it’s needed. This supports whatever capabilities will be critical tomorrow, from the Internet of Things…
SA’s Teraco Has Been Acquired by This US Cloud Computing Firm
South Africa-based colocation data centres and interconnection platforms provider for Africa, Teraco Data Environments announced yesterday that it has been acquired by California cloud computing and data centre firm Digital Realty. Digital Realty is one of the largest providers of…
Netskope Further Expands NewEdge Security Private Cloud in Africa
Netskope, a leading company in Security Service Edge (SSE) and Zero Trust, has announced its continued global expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network with an additional data centre now launched and taking traffic in South Africa. The new Cape Town deployment…
Oracle Cloud Products Come to Africa Data Centre Facilities Across the Continent
Liquid Cloud, the cloud computing arm of pan-African Cassava Technologies, has announced today that it will now offer its customers connectivity to Oracle Cloud products through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect. This new cross-organisation connectivity will come to South…
New Hyperscale Data Centre Campus Opens its Doors in Johannesburg
International hyperscale data centre firm Vantage has opened its first data center facility in Africa with its new Johannesburg campus after breaking ground in 2021. The two-story facility offers 16MW of critical IT capacity across 130,000 square feet (12,000 square…
SaaS vs. Load Shedding: A South African Matchup
We’ve come a long way since Thomas Edison and General Electric created the first substantial power grids in the 1880s. But one thing hasn’t changed much: work stops when the power goes out. South Africans have endured front-row seats to…
Rubrik Security Cloud Secures Data Across Enterprise, Cloud, & SaaS
Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, has announced Rubrik Security Cloud to secure customers’ data, wherever it lives, across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS. Despite investments in infrastructure security tools, cybercriminals are still getting through to the data. ‘It’s time…
Wits University: How AWS Cloud Training Helped Avoid COVID Disruptions
Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand says that in 2020 in response to South Africa’s strict lockdown measures, it managed to move its entire learning management system (LMS), Sakai, to the cloud in just two months leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). This…
Why Cloud Computing Has Suddenly Started to Gain Momentum in SA
While the cloud has been with us for about a decade and a half, in many ways it feels like we are still in the early stages of this journey. It could be said that the foundations for cloud computing…
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Huawei South Africa to Invest $5.8-Million in SMEs as Part of New Cloud Plans
Huawei South Africa has announced that its third data centre availability zone is set to go live three years ahead of schedule, as well as its $5.8-million (R100-million) Cloud Spark programme, which is set to provide support to more than…
Why High-Bandwidth Networks Should Form Part of Every Cloud Strategy
Cloud computing was first introduced commercially in the 2000s, but since the Covid pandemic in 2020, it has become an essential tool for businesses to improve administrative processes, employee productivity and the customer experience. However, businesses cannot fully experience the…
Cloud Computing: Africa’s Liquid Partners with the UK’s Telesmart.io
Telesmart.io, an expert in global number and messaging services, has been selected by Liquid Cloud, a business of pan-African technology service provider Cassava Technologies, as its number inventory management solution provider, according to an announcement from the company. Liquid Cloud…
