IBM and partners recently launched the Call for Code Global Initiative bring startup, academic and enterprise developers together to solve one of the most pressing societal issues of our time: preventing, responding to and recovering from natural disasters. During a keynote address at the VivaTech Conference in Paris, IBM Chairman, ...
ionacloud was never going to ship from day one, and everyone knew it but no one dared ask the team any real infrastructure questions as cloud was the latest buzzword in the country's tech scene in mid 2011 just months shy of the undersea fibre optic cables craze. To give ...
Following the success of the Oracle (Oracle.com) Day and Oracle Cloud Day event series, Oracle Digital Days provide a unique opportunity to discover how to adopt the cloud more quickly, take advantage of the opportunities it presents, and stay in control. This interactive event will explore how cloud ecosystems can drive ...
5 things you probably never thought cloud computing could do for your business. If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably heard about cloud computing by now. The main benefits are cost savings and greater flexibility, but there is so much more that a powerful, integrated cloud platform can do. We’ve ...
At Huawei's three-day conference for the global ICT ecosystem, Huawei Connect, which was held in Shanghai, themed "Shape the Cloud," Ken Hu, Huawei's Rotating CEO, explained that the company aims to position itself as the enabler and driver of an intelligent world to become a preferred partner that enables digital and ...
Pan-African telecoms enabler SEACOM has entered the fibre to the home business, under its SEACOM Business initiative to provide corporate organizations in East Africa with reliable data connectivity, cloud services and consistent service quality by leveraging SEACOM’s existing network infrastructure and product set. Some of the already existing players in ...
Saicom Voice Services has entered into a strategic partnership with SEACOM to allow SEACOM to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Cloud PBX services over a white-label platform to corporate and SME customers. “We are looking to build long-term relationships with trusted partners and the strength of our partnerships have ...
Dimension Data East Africa has won the 2016 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Rwanda and Tanzania regions, as well as Global recognition for Communications Partner of the Year and Cloud productivity Partner of the Year. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft ...
It used to be so easy to store all my work on my laptop when I was the sole employee of my company. That was like five years ago. I had no customers, I had no staff and I wondered why companies paid lots of money to host their data ...
East Africa's fastest growing cloud computing firm Angani, is running an offer to help businesses move to the cloud easily, with guaranteed reduction in costs involved in clunky backup system that are prone to human error, expensive servers for their emails and phone systems. The firm has bundled together its ...
Microsoft has acquired Aorato, an enterprise security firm based in Tel Aviv Isreal to protect its entreprise customers against threats in the cloud. Announcing the development yesterday, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Takeshi Numoto said: " With Aorato we will accelerate our ability to give customers ...
Cloud services firm Pamoja and Symantec, will on 25 September 2014 host a partner information session in Nairobi, Kenya to launch their Cloud services. Pamoja Africa is the Cloud services business unit of Pan-African ICT enabler SEACOM. Its partnership with Symantec, a recognised leader in the security technology solutions development ...
You probably knew Riyaz Bachani during his tenure as CTO at Wananchi and Kenya Data Networks. Riyaz was in charge of Wazi Wifi and was the Wananchi Group Chief Technology Officer. He was also the founding CTO at Kenya Data Networks (now Liquid Telecom (K) Limited). The MIT (Massachusetts Institute ...
George Zervos, EMEA Sales Director, KEMP Technologies KEMP Technologies has today said it's Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) for Windows Azure is available for the South African market. According to the firm, the VLM LoadMaster for Azure offers layer-7 application delivery that exceeds Azure’s built in load balancer. ...
Text message management platform, FrontlineSMS has today introduced FrontlineCloud, to allow users easily send, receive, and manage SMS messages and data from anywhere in the world. According to FrontlineSMS CEO Laura Walker-Hudson, "FrontlineCloud makes life simpler with a quick set-up process, more ways to connect to mobile networks, and all ...
Launched in Cape Town SA in 2008, Framework One specialises in bespoke enterprise system development and business process automation using cloud based, Windows Azure services. Rapid development is done using our own in-house developed framework and custom built Visual Studio extensions. The software firm's co founders Maritz Aldum and Alexander ...
