King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), one of Saudi Arabia’s premier research universities, is collaborating with Riverbed on a transformation project to give staff and students seamless access to services, information and applications, as well as enable real-time collaboration with research institutes across the globe. Riverbed has announced that King Abdullah University of […]
Orange, one of world’s leading telecommunications operators and major investor in over 40 submarine cables, has teamed up with Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefónica Group, to collaborate in Europe and the US on backhaul extensions for the Dunant cable, a Google project. The Atlantic is one of the world’s busiest network routes […]
The uncontrolled data growth urgently requires new corporate policies for data storage and retention. The information regulator is pushing for the remaining provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) to be finalised and come into effect by April 1. The chairperson of the Information Regulator, Advocate Pansy Tlakula, has already sent a request […]
Sequel Support, a Cape Town based database support specialist, has launched an innovative tool called Hyperion to automate the monitoring of databases. Hyperion was developed in-house and is already integrated into the company’s managed services offering. Now, however, organisations that perform their own monitoring can buy the tool for a monthly fee per server. “In today’s world, […]
What was once considered an integral part of any organisational strategy, the public cloud is no longer the darling of South African decision-makers. With many rushing their transition into this environment and making mistakes along the way, companies are now taking the learnings and refocusing on a hybrid approach. And according to Nutanix, it is […]
Following strong regional performance in 2019 and in anticipation of continued business momentum in the Middle East – fuelled by growing connectivity requirements, mega projects and events – R&M has announced the inauguration of a new regional headquarters in Dubai. The company has also announced its expansion into a new supply chain facility, a move […]
A data centre for the new Administrative Capital close to Cairo will be built and operated by Orange Egypt. The Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) has signed an agreement with Orange Egypt to build and operate the new administrative capital’s data centre and cloud computing platform. The data centre is an infrastructure milestone to […]
Teraco has announced that VMware Cloud is now available via VMware Cloud Verified service providers in the Cape Town (CT1) and Johannesburg (JB1) data centre facilities. VMware Cloud provides a fast and easy way to migrate existing enterprise application workloads to the cloud and, when you see the VMware Cloud Verified logo, you’ll know you […]
Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa. The route provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplifies the turn-up of services to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa. Subsea fibre-optic cables form the backbone of the global […]
Capillary Technologies, a leading consumer engagement and commerce product company, has announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency status. AWS Retail Competency Partners have demonstrated success in offering end-to-end solutions across customer engagement, supply chain and distribution, physical, digital and virtual store, advanced retail data science, core retail business applications and […]
