Intelligent Data Centres
Opportunities and challenges in scaling data centres across Africa
With traditional data centre hubs like Amsterdam and Dublin facing acute land and capacity constraints, and restrictive policies for data centre development, XSPs are beginning to expand into different regions,...
Delivering 28 Terabits networking capacity for South African enterprises
As the demand for fast Internet surged in Cape Town, the third-largest fibre-to-the-home provider in South Africa, MetroFibre turned to NEC XON, which implemented Juniper Network’s ACX Universal Metro Routers and A...
Revamping Africa’s retail industry with digital and power platforms
Across Africa’s dynamic retail landscape, transformation is strategic necessity as customer is king and retailers must be adaptive to change in order to meet new demands, while being supported by the digital revolution a...
Transforming for tomorrow’s corporate banking
Operating from a single office in Lagos, the bank sought to extend its reach and services to high net-worth individuals and large corporates by integrating Nutanix into its IT framework, helping it redefine its...
Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing migrates to HCI servers
In 2018, Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System began re-evaluating its operational strategy and recognised the need for a technology overhaul and by 2019 started looking for a partner to support its redefined s...
SDWAN replaces legacy MPLS for Pan African law firm
The business of Bowmans, a big five law firm based out of South Africa, with seven offices in Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia was limited by its legacy networking infrastructure, till CMC Networks...
CRS payroll automates and empowers pharmaceutical company
CRS Technologies is a leading provider of solutions and services to the growing human capital management industry. Recently, it partnered with a South African pharmaceutical company to implement its solutions and speed...
Agility Logistics announces master-planned datacentre sites in Saudi, Kuwait,...
Agility Logistics Parks, a developer of industrial and logistics real estate in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, announced the launch of tailored, master-planned datacentre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,...
Simplifying security on the path to a multi-cloud future
CIOs and CISOs must shift their mindset from network-centric security to data-centric security in order to have visibility over their data, says Petko Stoyanov, Global Chief Technology Officer at Forcepoint. He...
Will data centre investment be the catalyst for cloud adoption in Africa?
Neil Templeton, VP, Marketing, Console Connect, investigates Africa’s data centre landscape over the course of the year as well as how it is set to evolve in 2023. He considers the potential of cloud technology for a...
Data delivers performance across multiple industries… right now
An organisation’s data architecture should act as an enabler for business progression, not hinder development. Martin James, Vice President EMEA at Aerospike, highlights the criticality of effective data management for s...
Encapsulated East Africa implements Vertiv’s modular data centre solution for K...
Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, together with local partner Encapsulated East Africa, and the Kenyan National Transport and Safety Authority, NTSA, recently...
Delivering 28 Terabits networking capacity for South African enterprises
As the demand for fast Internet surged in Cape Town, the third-largest fibre-to-the-home provider in South Africa, MetroFibre turned to NEC XON, which implemented Juniper Network’s ACX Universal Metro Routers and A...
Transforming for tomorrow’s corporate banking
Operating from a single office in Lagos, the bank sought to extend its reach and services to high net-worth individuals and large corporates by integrating Nutanix into its IT framework, helping it redefine its...
Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing migrates to HCI servers
In 2018, Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System began re-evaluating its operational strategy and recognised the need for a technology overhaul and by 2019 started looking for a partner to support its redefined s...
SDWAN replaces legacy MPLS for Pan African law firm
The business of Bowmans, a big five law firm based out of South Africa, with seven offices in Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia was limited by its legacy networking infrastructure, till CMC Networks...
How Intron Health is boosting healthcare systems in Africa through NLP and AI
Intron Health has trained its algorithms with data sets from clinicians across Africa to boost the accuracy of spoken medical terms, which a larger, more general-purpose platform would have struggled with. West...
A Lynchpin Media Brand