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The risks and benefits in the race to hyperscale
Organisations are looking to move big data workloads to the cloud in increasing numbers. Andrew Cruise, Managing Director at Routed, Africa’s only vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says the hyperscale trend is best explained within a broader push towards OPEX and…
South Africa to get first Digital Economy Summit in June
On Thursday, 11 April 2019, the Minister of Telecommunications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams officially launched the 4IRSA Partnership and unveiled its plans towards the country’s first Digital Economy Summit at a media briefing. The summit is scheduled to be held on 27-28…
Samsung launches Galaxy A series in South Africa
Samsung Electronics launched the Galaxy A Series on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 in Johannesburg. The Galaxy A Series follows through on 10 Years of Galaxy Innovation, upgraded for all, at an affordable price. According to Samsung, the new Galaxy A…
AfricaOnline launches JOLA service in Ghana
AfricaOnline a subsidiary of Gondwana International Networks (GIN) has announced the launch of its new JOLA service, a high-speed broadband satellite service powered by Avanti’s HYLAS4 satellite that offers 100 per cent coverage of Ghana through multiple spot beams. Making…
South African school goes solar through innovative global funding platform
Sun Exchange, a global solar micro-leasing marketplace has announced plans to solar power Western Cape Education Department schools. The first school in the series will be Protea Heights Academy in Cape Town. Sun Exchange enables schools and businesses to have…
Accelerating economic development through digital in Africa
The explosion of digital in Africa continues to gain momentum and digital, data, AI and the emergence of the fintech sector are all fast becoming the driving force behind this growth. The growing use of big data, mobile, cloud computing…
Kaspersky Lab researchers uncover cyberespionage framework
Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a technically sophisticated cyberespionage framework that has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be unconnected to any known threat actors. The framework, which researchers have named TajMahal, features around 80 malicious modules…
Trend Micro enhances its Deep Security and Cloud App Security products
Trend Micro, a cybersecurity solutions company announced enhancements to its Deep Security and Cloud App Security products designed to extend protection to virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes platform protection, container image scanning integration with the Google Kubernetes…
Education Innovation Summit returns to Johannesburg for 4th year
The 4th annual Education Innovation Summit is set to take place on the 29th of May 2019 at the Hilton, Sandton, Johannesburg. Hosted by IT News Africa, the summit is designed to bring together innovation leaders and the academic community…
Fortinet expands its Security Fabric
Fortinet has announced the release of the latest version of its flagship operating system, FortiOS 6.2, at its global customer and partner conference—Accelerate 19. This FortiOS 6.2 release continues the evolution of the Security Fabric with over 300 new innovations…
WASPA’s new board begins its first term
South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) recently amended its Constitution in a bid to better equip the non-profit industry association to represent the interests of its members while also pursuing a mobile consumer protection mandate. WASPA’s new Constitution…
ESET warns users of fraudulent e-mail messages
ESET has recorded a wave of multi-lingual e-mail based extortion scams scaring victims into paying. The attacker in the email claims they have hacked the intended victim’s device and has recorded the person while watching pornographic content. The email also…
Rectron to distribute ROLI in South Africa
Rectron has announced that it will distribute ROLI’s musical touch technology in South Africa from April 2019. ROLI’s journey in music technology began with the launch of the Seaboard GRAND, a premium performance synthesiser that essentially reimagined the piano. Since…
Phishing threats 2019: The experts tell all
It is becoming better understood that, in order to stop phishing attacks, we need to be able to see them coming. At the same time, it also helps to have an idea around which phishing and malware threats we should…
Opera launches the first desktop browser ready for Web 3
Opera launched the newest Opera browser for Mac, Windows and Linux now includes a Crypto Wallet, Web 3 explorer and a free VPN. The new feature lets people make transactions and interact with the blockchain-based Internet of the future, also…
Kyocera Document Solutions unveils a renewed brand identity
In an exercise to consolidate its image and overcome the new challenges of the technology market ecosystem, Kyocera Document Solutions announced a renewed global corporate identity. The new brand identity reflects Kyocera Document Solutions’ increasing role in helping customers capture…
