[Column] A resilient, cloud-based digital future
Digital transformation should come with one, well highlighted, disclaimer: one size does not fit all. The technology chosen for digital transformation needs to align...
Teraco is building a second data centre facility in Cape Town
Teraco today formally confirmed the construction of Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), a new 30MW data centre facility. This follows the company's recent 60MW...
Amazon’s First African AWS Region Opened In Cape Town, South Africa
Amazon Web Services, commonly referred to as AWS, has opened its first-ever AWS Region in Africa. The new AWS Africa Region is based in...
South Africa to lead cloud adoption race in the continent
As the battle between international cloud providers intensifies, Africa’s cloud market is starting to gain traction with many enterprise customers seeking access to the...
Alibaba Pledges To Invest $28 Billion In Cloud Computing Over The Next Three Years
Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has promised to invest 200 billion yuan (approx. $28 billion) in its cloud computing business to help improve the infrastructure...
Cloud uptake shifts in South African enterprise sector, Says Routed MD
While there is an increase in cloud adoption within the enterprises in South Africa, there is a shift in how these organisations are choosing...
Opportunities abound for edge computing, but security concerns remain
From less than $1.5 billion in 2017 to an anticipated $9 billion by 2024, the worldwide edge computing market is set to show significant growth...
[Column] 5G security is all-important for governments
The 5G revolution is about to flip us from a society that “uses networks” to one that “runs on networks”. 5G will connect everyone...
Safaricom Becomes Amazon Web Services Reseller In Kenya and EA
Safaricom has today announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services, which will see the telco resell AWS services in Kenya and throughout East Africa....
[Column] Mastering the complexity of multicloud in 2020
As enterprises’ demands look set to continue maturing in 2020, they are better able to distinguish between cloud platforms and identify which ones work...
Strangers Might Have Downloaded Your Private Videos On Google Photos, Google Warns
Cloud storage services are a must have service in this time and age. Many people rely on these services to store their files including...
[Column] Stay ahead of those data security woes
The very factors that have helped to make Kenya such a motivated and major African player in the Digital Age have also made local...
Apple Drops Plans To Encrypt iCloud Backups After FBI Complained – Report
Apple has put itself in a unique spot in the industry, continuously selling its brand as privacy-focused. In most cases, that is true, but...
Telkom South Africa shuts down its ADSL copper network, forces customers to move to...
Telkom South Africa is shutting down its ADSL copper network and is ultimately forcing its business customers to move to the cloud. This according...
[Column] Extending security to the cloud
Business leaders now have a choice whether they want to continue using their trusted firewall or move to a next-generation firewall delivered by appliances...
Internet Solutions partners with icolo.io to enhance its Data Centre Services Offering
Converged ICT Services Provider Internet Solutions has signed a partnership with IT infrastructure company, icolo.io, to boost its data centre and cloud services offering to...
Developers to make API calls with SophosLabs Intelix, a Cloud-Based Threat Intelligence Platform
SophosLabs Intelix, a cloud-based threat intelligence and analysis platform enables developers to build more secure applications. Developers will be able to make API calls...
Sophos upgrades its Cloud Optix to simplify cloud security
Endpoint security leader Sophos has unveiled advancements to its Cloud Optix that automate and simplify the detection and response of cloud security vulnerabilities and...
[Column] Making the right decision to benefit from true Cloud applications
Many people often confuse the similarities and differences surrounding both web hosting and cloud computing. While many believe that cloud and hosted services are...
Cloud offers 20% saving on IT spend, report
Cloud migration is typically driven by business demand, cost-savings and IT efficiency. However, to realise the full benefit of cloud migration, business leaders must...
Local partner role is critical to cloud success in Africa
While cloud technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to innovate as if they were potentially start-ups, the time and approach some are taking...
[Column] 2020 pivotal for deeper cloud adoption
In a first of its new Hype series, Routed, a vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, will host Guy Zibi, principal analyst, Xalam Analytics, to discuss, dispel...
Oracle showcases its latest cloud solutions in Nairobi
Oracle recently showcased its latest Cloud led digital solutions to top business and government leaders at the International Modern Business event in Nairobi.
This was...
[Column] Technological disruption looming for Africa’s data network market
Sometimes a disruptive technology can loiter for a while, before it changes everything. Yet change it will bring, because nothing and no one can...
[Column] Cloud is the future of payroll
Cloud technologies are becoming more popular than ever before, with research from RightScale revealing that some 94% of organisations are using the cloud in...
Sophos Cloud Optix to provide cloud security vulnerabilities to Amazon Web Services Customers
Sophos today announced the availability of Sophos Cloud Optix on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. As a new agentless software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, Cloud Optix automatically discovers...
[Column] How cloud-based AI enables modernisation of business
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving to be a key technology in delivering improved customer experience and exceeding customer expectations. It is also a highly...
#OOW19: Oracle to launch 20 new Oracle Cloud regions by the end of 2020
Oracle has announced that it plans to launch 20 new Oracle Cloud regions by the end of 2020, for a total of 36 Oracle...
South Africa’s insurance provider SilverBridge bets on cloud to bolster insurance uptake and experience
With more than two decades’ experience in the insurance market, South Africa's insurance provider SilverBridge has continually evolved to deliver on market requirements. With...
Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle Ups the Ante in Cloud with World’s First Autonomous Operating System
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Linux. The service along with the new Oracle OS Management Service is the first and only...
Windows 10 Will Soon Allow Fresh Installation From The Cloud
Microsoft Windows for ages has been lacking a way to let users perform a fresh installation of Windows from the cloud. This is, of...
Worley and AVEVA to Deliver First Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Management Solution for EPC Market
Worley has selected AVEVA’s Enterprise Resource Management solution as its preferred materials management platform. The partnership combines Worley’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) knowledge...
SEACOM is doubling its data capacity to connect more African businesses to cloud
SEACOM wants to double the data capacity on its broadband submarine cable system from 1.5 terabytes to 3 terabytes. The move according to an...
Africa Data Centres Becomes PCI DSS Certified in Kenya
Africa Data Centres Nairobi (formally known as East Africa Data Centre) has become the first neutral data centre to be certified PCI DSS in...
[Column] The new revolution every business should talk about
Just as telephones and cars changed how we work and play, 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is ushering in a new age that shouldn’t be...
[Column] Seven Best Practices for Securing the Public Cloud
The simplicity and cost-effectiveness of the public cloud have led more and more organizations to take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure,...
[Column] Why Cloud Hasn’t Had a Big Impact on Business Intelligence
Although the notion of network-based computing stems right back to the 1960s, the modern term “cloud computing” arose in the 2000s. Yet, almost two...
Affects of Service Oriented Architectures and Web2.0 Phenomenon
Wikipedia/O'Reiley characterizes Web 2.0 as the "second era of Internet-based administrations" and keeping in mind that it is right, it does little to convey...
Cloud, an essential component for every African business
Cloud computing has been in existence for almost two decades now helping businesses stay secure from cyber threats. The technology points to business efficiencies,...
[Column] Data sovereignty in Africa, why you should care
African businesses are currently making massive investments in things like machine learning and artificial intelligence tools and are using cloud and virtualized infrastructure to...
NSO Group’s Malware Now Capable of Spying on Data Stored in iCloud, Reports
The NSO Group, a famous Israel security firm has reportedly developed tools which can be able to scrape data from cloud services. This could...
Angola Cables Launches Its Cloud Service Platform To The African Market
Following the recent inauguration of their advanced Tier III AngoNAP data center facility in Fortaleza, Brazil, Angola Cables has announced that it has launched Angola Cables Cloud Service...
Cloud service provider afriQloud launches in Uganda, 15 African countries to follow in 2020
Pan-African connectivity provider, BringCom has partnered with science and technology investor, Imprimatur Capital, and European edge cloud software company, GIG Technology to launch afriQloud....
SEACOM launches its direct-to-corporate connectivity and cloud services in Uganda
Pan-African telecoms enabler SEACOM has extended its corporate market offering into the East African region, under its SEACOM Business brand. The company has unveiled...
[Column] The huge opportunity for consolidation and cloud in Africa
It is only 100 days since I took up the post of VP for Africa at Oracle, but already it is clear why the...
[Column] 5 key considerations for your journey to cloud
According to the IDC’s Kenya Enterprise ICT Market 2019 Outlook, 1,9 million USD is predicted to be spent on ICT in Kenya this year alone. The...
Microsoft and Oracle link up their Cloud services to take on AWS Cloud
Microsoft Cloud and Oracle Cloud have on June 5th signed a new deal that will see the two companies collaborate on their cloud services....
Kenya among African countries set to benefit from Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerator Programme
Microsoft has announced it is extending the reach of its Cloud Accelerator Programme to eight more countries including Kenya.
The Cloud Accelerator Programme is an immersive...
IBM expanding its AI and Cloud Technology for Agriculture to Africa and other markets
IBM is expanding its Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture to Africa and other markets around the world. The Platform taps AI, cloud technology, weather...
Gaming rivals, Microsoft and Sony collaborate on cloud services
Microsoft has announced their partnership with their long-term rival Sony on gaming cloud services. Despite their differences, Sony and Microsoft still have managed to...
Telkom Launches Cloud-based Voice Services for Enterprise Customers
Telkom has introduced a new cloud-based fixed voice service that will allow SMEs and corporates to outsource for robust and secure cutting-edge technology.
Dubbed “Omniconnect”,...
Cybercriminals Attack Cloud Server Honeypot Within 52 Seconds of going live, Sophos Report
Cybercriminals attacked one of the cloud server honeypots within 52 seconds of the honeypot going live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is according to...
Dell is banking on Multi Cloud, AI, IoT to build digital solutions for Kenyan...
Dell Technologies is now banking on Multi-Cloud Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things to provide enterprises with enhanced solutions as Kenya gets into...
Microsoft drives digital transformation through cloud adoption in Kenya
In an effort to create awareness around its Azure offering as well as drive cloud migration, Microsoft yesterday hosted an event in Nairobi aimed...
MTN selects Oracle Cloud Applications to drive digital transformation
South Africa based mobile telecommunications major; MTN has chosen Oracle Cloud Applications to drive one of the largest digital transformations in the global telecom...
Column: Cloud computing unlocking rapid innovation in Africa
Africa is a continent pulsating with energy and this carries over from its beautiful cultures to business and innovation. Digitalisation is permeating every industry,...
Sage launches a cloud payroll solution targeted for start-ups and SMEs
Sage, the market, and technology leader for integrated accounting, payroll & HR, and payment systems, has launched – Sage One - a cloud payroll...
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