The digital revolution has undeniably transformed the world, connecting individuals and businesses across continents. However, this interconnectedness comes at a steep price for many African nations. Overreliance on foreign cloud providers, primarily headquartered in the Americas and Europe, presents significant challenges that hinder the continent’s digital progress. The Cost of Dependence: Profit-Driven Pricing: These foreign…
Craig Stephens, Advisory Business Solutions Manager, SAS in South Africa Cloud computing’s role in today’s digital marketplace is undeniable. It allows for significant advancements through analytics, machine learning, and AI. However, concern over its carbon footprint is growing. The cloud’s greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs) now eclipse that of the global aviation industry. This highlights the…
The firm owned by Cassava Technologies, Africa Data Centres, revealed intentions to erect a 20MW data center near Cape Town on Wednesday. The new facility, which is scheduled to debut in the middle of next year, will have an IT load of up to 20MW. The company now has two data centers in Cape Town….
Adopting edge computing is the next important step in future-proofing your infrastructure. By moving data processing towards the ‘edge’, you bring real-time decision-making to where it’s needed. This supports whatever capabilities will be critical tomorrow, from Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered applications. Edge computing will be bigger than cloud computing…
One of the top mobile telco operator groups in Africa, Africell, just adopted Infobip’s Answers chatbot service. Infobip is a global cloud communications firm. More than 15 million users receive mobile network coverage and related technology services from Africell, a mobile network operator. Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia…
Elev8 education, a global leader in digital skilling and transformative education, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training Partner program. Elev8 will deliver cloud computing skills training developed and maintained by AWS to enterprises and learners in Nigeria and Rwanda as part of this program. Many businesses have advanced their digital transformation plans this…
The Namibian arm of pan-African network provider Paratus has announced the August 2022 opening of its carrier-neutral Data Center (DC) facility in Windhoek, Namibia. This new facility, dubbed Armada Data Center by the company, will be Namibia’s first carrier-neutral and largest DC facility. It will supplement the Equiano Cable, which is scheduled to arrive in…
Cassava Technologies (CassavaTechnologies.com) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tesh Durvasula as the new Chief Executive Officer of Africa Data Centres (ADC) beginning on February 7, 2022. He will be in charge of driving the expansion, innovation, and strategy of Cassava Technologies’ data centers in order to meet Africa’s growing demand for data and…
Africa’s data center market is expected to attract billions of dollars in investment as the continent’s internet economy grows. According to new data, the African and Middle Eastern data center market received $6.55 billion in investments in 2021 and will receive an additional $12.19 billion by 2027, with the continent receiving half of that amount….
Oracle, a cloud computing company, has launched a ZAR15 million (US$982,000) program to assist African startups in various industries in implementing the latest digital technologies to drive business growth. Over the next two years, the multinational cloud computing company, led by Oracle for Startups, will provide additional resources and support to technology startups across Africa….
With 2021 behind us, we look forward to an exciting 2022 in the storage market. Cyber resilience, AI, supercharged application and workload performance and availability, and reduced OPEX and CAPEX in today’s hybrid cloud and containerized world – all of these come together to frame the next 12 months. Understanding these enterprise storage trends will…
Africa Data Centres (ADC), the continent’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data center facilities, has opened its new 10MW data center facility in Lagos, Nigeria. According to the firm, the new facility will pave the path for Africa Data Centres‘ hyperscale customers to implement digital solutions to West Africa. According to Stephane Duproz,…
According to Absa Group, its cloud incubator effort is on track to exceed its objective of teaching 1,500 staff employees across Africa with cloud computing capabilities this year. Absa launched the cloud incubator program in March to help it along its digital transformation journey. According to Absa, 1,496 individuals successfully completed the training by the…
Evolve Credit, a Nigerian lending marketplace, has launched Configure, a new cloud lending software that it claims will power thousands of new loan providers over the next five years. The Evolve Credit marketplace connects lenders and borrowers in one location, making comparison easier. Just over a year ago, the startup raised pre-seed funding and has…
Africa Data Centres, a carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, has announced a strong expansion in Nairobi. The company has begun the development of a second data centre of up to 20MW of IT load and is securing land for a third facility. This $200-million plus investment will double the country’s data centre capacity and serve…
Latest Security report, titled: Out of Sight and Out of Mind, a comprehensive global study highlighting how the rise of hybrid work is changing user behaviour and creating new cybersecurity challenges for IT departments, has revealed a new form of cybersecurity targeting hybrid workplace. The research, HP Wolf Security report, showed that a growing number of users…
WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole that has been exploited by governments to obtain and review private communication between individuals. WhatsApp has long encrypted chats between users on its app. But users…
There is good news for companies who wish to keep their data safe, and who are opposed to paying hackers ransom money in order to have critical data returned in the event of a hack. This input comes in the recent announcement that global giant Microsoft, the American multinational technology corporation, is investing in cloud…
Alphabet’s Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of a push to help companies track and cut carbon budgets. The new features were among announcements Google Cloud made Tuesday to kick off its annual customer conference,…
Paratus Group has announced that its brand-new data centre will open in Lusaka, Zambia on 1 October 2021. The new data centre in the East African country will offer colocation services – 24/7 connections for local and multinational businesses, together with a sophisticated range of digital and aligned services. Colocation Customers are given the option…
IBM today announced that 6 major financial institutions across Africa have selected the technology corporation for hybrid cloud and AI capabilities to promote digital innovation and continue developing digital-first solutions. COVID-19 continues to accelerate the already rapid changes that were happening across the financial services sector in Africa, fast-tracking the adoption of digital technologies to…
Written by Manish Singh, Zack Whittaker WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put a lid on one of the tricky ways private communication between individuals on the app can be compromised. The Facebook-owned service has end-to-end encrypted…
How Hybrid Cloud & AI Boost Innovation in Africa’s Banking Sector Written by Luis Monzon Over the past few years, organisations across sectors have embarked on their digital transformation journeys at a moderate pace following industry predictions. The pandemic fast-tracked digital transformation as companies looked to emerging technologies in order to avoid business interruptions and ensure…
Over a decade, Smith Egharebah has shared valuable insights on solutions such as serverless computing and event-driven architecture. particularly on subject matter like intricacies of cloud, delivering efficient, scalable technologies that assist organisations to meet up their goals. Serverless computing is a powerhouse empowering software developers to focus solely on writing code without the overhead…