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New Telkom customers to get 1GB data and 100 minutes of talk time monthly for a one-off payment of Ksh.100
Madaraka Life : Last month, Telkom Kenya teased plans to unveil a new digital independence product as it seeks to…
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MainOne to unveil new data center in Ghana’s Appolonia City
MainOne, the provider of connectivity, cloud and data center solutions in West Africa is set to launch the Appolonia Data…
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64% of Kenyan businesses unaware of data privacy laws, Zoho Study
According to a recent survey, only 36% of Kenyan businesses are aware of privacy laws governing their marketing activities, despite…
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Digital lenders in Kenya are still abusing data protection laws
Digital lenders continued to harass defaulters and violate their consumer data rights. This is according to Ajua’s Quarter 1 2021…
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Nigeria’s Terragon Customer Data Platform (CDP) verified as RealCDP
Africa’s data and marketing technology company, Terragon, has been listed as a verified verified Customer Data Platform (CDP) company by…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom To Offer Customers Free Data Every Day For the Next 90 Days
Safaricom has today unveiled a new data campaign that will see customers enjoy free data every day for the next…
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iColo starts construction of MBA2, its third data center in Kenya
Carrier-neutral data center infrastructure provider iColo has today announced the construction of its third data center in Kenya to be…
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[Ethiopia] Ethio Telecom launches modular data center to streamline IT and network infrastructure
Ethio Telecom has launched a Tier III-ready modular data centre in Ethiopia. Powered by Huawei, the data center is located in…
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CYBER SECURITY
Kaspersky partners with value-added distributor DataGroupIT to strengthen West African footprint
As part of its strategy to grow its business in West Africa, Kaspersky has partnered with value-added distributor DataGroupIT who…
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CLOUD
icolo.io installs hybrid solar systems at its Nairobi and Mombasa data centers
icolo.io has announced the installation of Solar Energy systems at its Nairobi (NBO1) and Mombasa (MBA1) Data Centres. The 400kW…
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How Kenya’s Average Cost of 1GB Mobile Data Compares to the Rest of the World
The cost of data in Kenya has steadily reduced as mobile operators try to make their offers more competitive. Telkom…
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[Africa Cloud Review] Simon Ngunjiri: Africa is Undergoing a Revolution in New Cloud and Data Centre Capacity
Compared with other Data Centre markets around the world, Africa is unique in the sense it has a population of…
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CLOUD
Cloud Infrastructure Spending Surpasses On-Premise Data Centers in 2020
Enterprises have been moving to the cloud as more increasingly rely on it other than on-premise data centres. While the…
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The Next-Generation Data Center Is Here Today
The world is creating more data than ever and on an unimaginable scale. Data could reach an incredible 180ZB (one…
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Telkom Kenya Freedom Friday Bundles Offer More Data for Less
Telkom Kenya is running a new promotion offering its customers more data for less. Known as Telkom Freedom Friday, the…
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Data is the new gold in the rapidly transforming financial services industry
Australia’s top four banks have removed 2,150 ATM terminals and closed 175 bank branches since June 2020. In India, the…
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Telkom Kenya’s New Subscribers Offer Now Comes With 500MB Free Monthly Data
Telkom Kenya has launched a new Welcome Offer for subscribers joining the network for the first time. The Welcome Offer…
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Strathmore University is Now Offering a Master’s Program in Data Science and Analytics
Strathmore University has Launched a Master’s Of Science in Data Science and Analytics (MSc. DSA) program to equip participants with…
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Safaricom Adds Data Caps to Home Fibre: Here’s what you need to know
Last week, Safaricom announced they were doubling Home Fibre Speeds. Safaricom Home Fibre customers would enjoy increased speeds without an…
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Safaricom’s Network Ranked Best for Data, Calls For The Fourth Year in a Row
Safaricom has been ranked by umlaut as having the best network for data and calls across the country, for the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Sophos Identifies Source Of “MrbMiner” Attacks Targeting Database Servers
Sophos published a new report on MrbMiner, a recently discovered cryptominer that targets internet-facing database servers (SQL servers) and downloads…
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[Interview] Our data marketplace is helping fill credit history gap in Sub-Saharan Africa, CARMA CEO
Fintech has become a significant force in shaping the financial services industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. As this market grows, the…
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Vertiv Experts foresee Utility-Like Criticality for Data Centers in 2021
As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centers and…
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Liquid Telecom appoints Wole Abu as CEO for Nigeria including new Africa Data Centre
Liquid Telecom has appointed Wole Abu as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Nigeria. Wole will also serve as the CEO…
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[Free Webinar] Incentro Presents: The Kenya Data Protection Act: What it Means For You
Incentro Presents: The Kenya Data Protection Act Webinar: What it Means For You When: 10th December 2020 From: 16:00 – 17:00 EAT…
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[Column] Andrew Bourne: Why businesses should ensure data privacy in vendor relationships
Whether we realize it or not, we are being tracked everywhere we go on the Internet. In fact, Internet surveillance…
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Dimension Data is Doubling Connectivity and Service Capacity of its Carrier Ethernet Network in Keny
Dimension Data is upgrading its carrier ethernet network in Kenya at a cost of $1 million. The upgrade being undertaken by…
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Africa Data Centres Tier III certification renewed
Africa Data Centres has had its Tier III certification renewed by the Uptime Institute for its Nairobi-based data centre. The firm which claims to be…
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Telkom Kenya Revamps its Home Plan Data Bundles to Offer More
Telkom Kenya has revamped its daily, monthly, and unlimited home plan data bundles. The revamp will see Telkom’s prepaid customers…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom Customers to Get Free Data and Minutes by Enrolling to newly launched Skiza Mobile Advertising Platform
Kenya’s largest telco Safaricom has today announced a new platform to help SMEs advertise their services. The new Skiza Mobile…
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South African data centre company Teraco is building Africa’s largest data center with 38 MW power load
South African data centre company Teraco has commenced the construction of its new hyperscale data centre with 38 megawatts (MW)…
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BUSINESS
Telkom Revamps Pawa Voice Bundles with Data and SMS
Telkom Kenya has revamped its Pawa voice bundles. The telco has sweetened the deal by including SMS and data packs.…
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Safaricom to Offer Free Calls and Data to Customers as it Celebrates 20th Birthday
Safaricom turned 20 on Friday 23rd after officially launching in the Kenyan market on 23rd October 2000. The telco celebrated…
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[Column] Amrote Abdella: Data-driven agriculture can solve the challenge of food security in Africa
One of most the prominent challenges facing Africa is providing food security for its citizens. While many farmers still rely…
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Africa Data Centers appoints Vimal Sharma new GM Sales for Eastern Africa region
Africa Data Centres has appointed Vimal Sharma as its new General Manager: Sales for the Eastern Africa region. Before joining…
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BUSINESS
Buy any Amazing Data Bundle on Airtel Kenya and Get Free 500MB Daily Data
Airtel Kenya is continuing its cheap data legacy, offering free data on every purchase of their Amazing Data bundle packages.…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Nick Durrant: New business opportunities with data analytics
Data driven organisations are in a better position to make better strategic decisions to increase operational efficiencies, improve customer satisfaction…
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PAIX Data Centres enters The Kenyan market
PAIX Data Centres (“PAIX”), a Pan-African provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral colocation data centre services has entered the Kenyan market.…
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CYBER SECURITY
Top 4 Reasons You Need a Virtual Data Room For Your Business
There’s no shying away from the fact that technology has encapsulated the world completely. So whether it’s about a big…
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CYBER SECURITY
Database with Millions of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Profiles Exposed
A database containing data of nearly 235 million users across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube has been breached. The database stored…
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Women In Big Data South Africa to exhibit at AI Expo Africa 2020
The Women in Big Data South Africa chapter, a forum which seeks to strengthen diversity in analytics and big data,…
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[Column] Andrew Bourne: It’s time to get serious about user data
Over the past few years, tech-savvy customers and younger, more dynamic, employees have forced businesses in all sectors to completely…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom to connect Coca-Cola coolers with data collection sensors
Coca-Cola has partnered with Safaricom to connect its coolers with data collection sensors that will enable the company to enhance…
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Telkom’s 5GB Night Data Bundles Now Work from 10pm to 6am
After quietly increasing the cost of its 5GB night data bundles from 39 bob to 50 in May, Telkom Kenya…
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Internet Solutions is rebranding to Dimension Data East Africa
Internet Solutions (IS), Dimension Data and Continuity East Africa (CEA) are all rebranding to operate as Dimension Data East Africa.…
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Safaricom is Now Offering Affordable YouTube Data Bundle
Safaricom in partnership with Google has announced a new YouTube Data bundle. The data bundle can be used for YouTube…
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CYBER SECURITY
Data of Thousands of Mount Kenya University Students Leaked Online in Hacker Forums, Report
A new report suggests that data of various Mount Kenya University students – both past and present – is being…
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Telkom Kenya Quietly Increases The Cost of Its 5GB Night Data, Revises Daily 700MB Package Offering
Just late last night, I wanted to purchase my usual 700MB Telkom Data bundles which cost 50/= after my daily…
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Covid and Effective Data Management in IT
Information technology’s speed of evolution offers vast opportunities for all. Managers within the IT environment face a particularly unique challenge;…
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[Column] Making data relevant to the business
It’s true, business intelligence (BI) tools and hype slipped sadly into the Gartner Trough of Disillusionment in 2012. It is also true…
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Xiaomi Updates Its Browsers After Being Accused of Intrusive Data Collection
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has released updates to its browsers days after being accused of collecting users browsing data. In…
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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…
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Safaricom to provide free data, voice call minutes and SMSs to over 5,500 Government healthcare workers
As the effects of the coronavirus continue to bite, Safaricom has announced that it will provide communication support for the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Xiaomi Accused Of Collecting Browsing Data From Their Web Browsers
A recent shocking report from Forbes’s cybersecurity contributor and associate editor, Thomas Brewster, reveals that Xiaomi browsers are sending browsing…
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Safaricom Data Traffic Up By 40 Percent Due To Stay At Home Order
Kenya’s largest telco, Safaricom, has reported a 40 percent spike in data traffic as more Kenyan stay at home in…
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Staying connected in a crisis: How emerging technology and data can reduce the impact of a pandemic
The world is facing a once in a generation crisis, its scale matched only by the Spanish Flu pandemic of…
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South African Government To Use Location Data To Help Prepare For Coronavirus Case Spikes
The South African government headed by President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked mobile phone companies to help track movement of people…
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CYBER SECURITY
NordVPN Bug Exposed Critical Customer Data With No Authentication Required
One of the world’s popular VPN services, NordVPN, has experienced a critical bug that exposed user information to hackers. The…
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Safaricom Introduces New PostPay Plans With No Expiry Data And Minutes – How To Enroll
Safaricom has introduced new offerings for its postpaid customers. The new packages have been harmonized to offer more value for…
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Safaricom Hits Back Accusing Petitioner Of Stealing Customer Data In The Ksh115 Trillion Lawsuit
Last year July Safaricom was sued in a class-action suit with one Benedict Kabugi Ngungu, for mishandling customer data. According…
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[Column] Mobile Lending – Non-traditional data in credit decision making
Retail lending in Kenya has taken a unique path. It has skipped some stages typical for developed markets and climbed…
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Data: Africa’s “new blood”, rather than the “new oil”
Data protection and privacy regulation in most, or even all, African countries are often less mature – particularly when compared…
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African business leaders believe data is key for strengthening customer trust, IBM Study
91 per cent of African business leaders strongly believed data helps create a strategic advantage in strengthening their level of…
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CYBER SECURITY
[Column] Is your personal data safe?
We share a lot more information in the digital world than we used to. Businesses, organisations, close family, friends and…
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[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…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom Denies It Plans To Start Monetizing User Location Data – Here Is What Was Happening
Early this week, I am sure you were bombarded with several articles alleging that Kenya’s biggest telco Safaricom was planning…
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Telkom Kenya Revamps Data Bundle Offerings – Now Offers Upto Double Data For The Same Price
Data in Kenya is getting cheaper as time goes by. Telkom Kenya’s rebranding brought some cheap 4G data on the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Phone Numbers Of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed Online In A Data Breach
Millions of Facebook users have had their data being exposed online. This follows a discovery by security researchers who found…
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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…
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Airtel Kenya Revamps Amazing Data Bundles With More Data
Airtel Kenya has also launched new offers on its amazing data bundles plans. Furthermore, Airtel has also revamped its offerings…
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#CIO100AwardsEA: ICT industry applauds data protections law but calls for fair taxation on digital economy
The ICT fraternity has today thrown their support behind the recently signed into law data protection bill terming it a…
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Airtel Kenya now has a Data Management feature
Years after Safaricom launched a data manager; Airtel has also done it in their most convenient way possible. The company…
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[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…
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New Changes Available on Safaricom | Data Bundles with no Expiry, Free Sim Cards and more
Kenya’s biggest Telco Safaricom, in celebration of its 19th birthday, made a few changes to its operations. See, I’ll go…
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Gadgets
Your Smart TV is Just A Data Collection Machine
Many smart devices that we used in our daily lives are simply data collection machines. On that growing list of…
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Used hard drives being sold on eBay still contain people’s sensitive personal data, report
42% of hard drives purchased on eBay still contain sensitive data. 15% of these hard drives hold personal information on…
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CYBER SECURITY
South Africa experiencing a disturbingly high number of data breaches
Credit reporting agency Equifax has agreed to pay more than $677m to regulators to settle claims from a data breach…
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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…
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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…
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Google Suspends its Mobile Insights Service for fears of Data Privacy Issues
Google has revealed they shut down their Mobile Insights service. Mobile Insights provided network coverage to wireless carriers and helped…
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New corporate policies for data storage required
Data at end-of-life is a massive challenge for most companies, especially with uncontrolled data growth that has resulted in new…
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[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…
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CYBER SECURITY
Russian Intelligence Agency Hacked! Over 7.5TB of Data Deleted
Russian Intelligence Agency (FSB) has been one of the most prominent hacker group that ever grazed the internet. However, this…
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CYBER SECURITY
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…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Data and AI’s Advantage in Improving Customer Experience for Telcos
Telcos are most successful when customers feel as though their operator truly understands them. Data is the key to building…
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Dimension Data named 2019 Microsoft country partner of the year for Uganda
Dimension Data has been named the 2019 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Uganda. The company, part of…
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You can now set Google to delete your location tracking data automatically
Google last year run into problems after it was discovered that the company still tracks its user’s data despite turning…
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CYBER SECURITY
Truecaller user data selling on the dark web for over KES 200,000
TrueCaller Indian user data has been seen selling on the dark web for over KES 200,000. The data, according to…
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COLUMNS
[Column] Data Security; embracing autonomy and intelligent machines
By Christine Ambetsa, Regional Applications Sales Leader – East Africa at Oracle CIOs are operating in a state of heightened…
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Liquid Telecom is making Microsoft Azure Stack available for East African businesses from its data centres
Liquid Telecom Kenya is bringing Microsoft’s Azure Stack service to East Africa. Azure Stack is Microsoft’s modern hybrid cloud solution,…
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WordPress Database Structure and use of NoSQL Databases
There are many websites of small bloggers to big corporations now consider WordPress CMS as their most reliable web development…
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