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afriQloud launches in Uganda, 15 African countries to follow in 2020
BringCom, in partnership with science and technology investor, Imprimatur Capital, and European edge cloud software company, GIG Technology, have unveiled afriQloud. Launching in Uganda, afriQloud aims to provide customers with an innovative and secure cloud service. Hans van Linschoten, CEO…
Trend Micro launches new channel programme in Sub-Saharan Africa
On Monday, 24 June 2019, Trend Micro Incorporated unveiled its new channel partner programme for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With this programme, reseller partners will be able to access a host of benefits to fast track channel enablement and provide…
Ageing networks can hamper cloud performance
The cloud, IoT and even hyper-converged infrastructure require a robust and solid network to relay the information to and from the datacentre they are connected to. But an old, legacy network can severely hamper this and lead to downtime and…
The road to Intelligent Enterprise is paved by S/4HANA, says Hans-Peter Fülle
For business to thrive in the digital age, it needs a future-proof digital foundation that empowers it to take advantage of the latest revolutionary technologies. For a lot of businesses aiming to become intelligent enterprises, this will mean leveraging the…
Saving cloud from the jaws of complexity
Ten years ago, business technologies had saturated to breaking point. The potential they offered were diminished by their deployment and maintenance costs. Then virtualisation, cloud and peer technologies emerged to offer new capacities and optimisation. Companies were able to vastly…
Dark data is creating major security blind spot for most companies
Global businesses continue to house ‘dark data’ within their organisations, creating a honeypot for cybercriminals, finds research from Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage. The Value of Data study, conducted by Vanson Bourne for…
73% of organisations are failing to meet users’ demands, reveals study
Over the past decade, the amount of data generated has exploded; data growth and sprawl is so rampant that by 2025 we will generate more than 175 Zettabytes of data each year, up almost two thirds from 2018. Organisations need…
The impact of compliance on cloud and the payroll
At a time when so much attention is placed on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) in South Africa, companies must consider a plethora of permutations when it…
Schneider Electric creates flexible standardisation for data centre operators
Schneider Electric has created ‘flexible standardisation’ for data centre operators that allows the company to support the different sized deployments that its customers require quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, while eliminating inconsistencies across data centres. “HyperPod is a rack-ready system for…
Citrix to extend Workspace to Google Cloud
Citrix has announced plans to extend Citrix Workspace to Google Cloud, expanding the flexibility and choice companies have in transitioning to the cloud by enabling them to quickly and efficiently deliver apps to Google devices and operating systems and create…
Veeam surpasses $1 billion in bookings
Veeam Software has announced that it has exceeded $1 billion in annual bookings, joining an elite group of software companies to achieve this milestone. On its journey to the billion-dollar mark, Veeam has also surpassed 350,000 customers, adding new customers…
A business case for cloud and why finance needs a seat at the table
Most businesses are by now already at one or another stage of the enterprise cloud transformation journey and a staggering 93 per cent of business executives who participated in Deloitte’s 2018 global outsourcing survey, confirmed that their organisations were adopting…
Orange selects Engie for the operation and maintenance of its data centre in Côte d’Ivoire
Orange Services Group has selected Global energy company, Engie for the operation and maintenance of its data centre in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. This data centre of the latest generation, built by the Orange Service Group (GOS), is one of the…
Is your cloud-based app secure or is it costing you money?
It seems as though each day brings another article about IoT, big data analytics and cloud architectures talking about the unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge in an increasingly digital world. Early adopters, who are a…
F5 Networks to highlight multi-cloud capabilities at Kubecon Europe
F5 Networks is set to highlight its burgeoning multi-cloud and DevOps-facing capabilities at this week’s Kubecon Europe in Barcelona. The event represents the first time in EMEA F5, its service mesh arm Aspen Mesh, and the recently acquired NGINX present…
Liquid Telecom launches Azure Stack in East Africa
Liquid Telecom Kenya has today launched a Microsoft Cloud service in East Africa that offers a step-change in cybersecurity for the region’s most sensitive databases. The new Azure Stack service will allow companies to run a private Microsoft cloud within…
