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How Microsoft Was Able to Thwart the Largest DDoS Attack Ever
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Huawei Intelligent Cloud-Network Accelerates Digital Transformation Across Industries
Image sourced from Notebook Check. At the 18th Huawei Global Analyst Summit held in Shenzhen from April 12 to 14, Huawei announced the latest innovations and developments in its Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution. At this annual event, Steven Zhao, Vice President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote speech entitled “Go Digital Faster with the Intelligent Cloud-Network”. In the speech, Zhao shared how the Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution accelerates digital transformation across industries in four major scenarios: cloud campus network, cloud WAN, hyper-converged data centre network, and cyber security. Cloud migration is the key path for digital transformation. According to IDC statistics, 80% of enterprises will speed up their cloudification by the end of 2021...
Is South Africa Ready for the Next Phase in the Cloud Evolution?
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Teraco Completes Massive Data Centre Facility in South Africa
Teraco’s newly completed Johannesburg Data Centre facility. Teraco Data Environments Proprietary Limited, one of Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services providers, has announced the completion of the JB3 data centre facility, located within the Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The JB3 Data Centre. Image sourced from Tech Central. The company says its new billion-dollar facility represents a strategic addition to Platform Teraco, which offers enterprises a scalable platform for IT infrastructure deployment while sustaining performance, reliability, security, and the widest network choice. JB3 comprises 45000 square meters of building structure, 12000 square meters of data hall space, and 29MW of critical power load. When...
A Cyberattack Happens Every 11 Seconds, Choose Your Cloud Wisely
Sourced from International IDEA Cybersecurity experts predict that there is currently a cyberattack incident approximately every 11 seconds worldwide. This is almost double what it was in 2019 (every 19 seconds), and four times more than five years ago (every 40 seconds in 2016). Aside from these concerning statistics, what is even more alarming is the degree to which the sophistication of these attacks has grown. We are just over a year and a half into the pandemic and the way organisations approach cybersecurity has been embraced at an accelerated pace. With the vast majority of companies adopting fully remote or hybrid working arrangements, there has been a firm focus on the implementation of additional cybersecurity measures to keep critical operations secure. But, despite all efforts ...
Binary Innovative Technology Solutions on a Drive to Support its Growth, 4IR and Africa Business Strategies
Image sourced from Networks Unlimited. Binary Innovative Technology Solutions (Binary), a provider of end-to-end integrated solutions, has partnered with Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, and Networks Unlimited to complement its existing business suite of offerings in the ICT solutions and services, enterprise systems and digital technology arenas. This has allowed the company to take a significant step forward in its goal of maintaining the collaboration and growth that it has enjoyed over the past few months. Binary CEO Salomi Ramlall says, “We deliver innovative, customised technology solutions to our clients across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, utilities, the media, manufacturing, retail, financial management, mining and the public sector. Ou...
IBM Announces New General Manager for Africa and Middle-East
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ProLabs: Edge Data Centres Are All About Location, Speed and Connectivity
Sourced from Shutterstock Data centre operators need more storage, computing power and higher bandwidth to connect more devices. On top of these needs, they have a requirement to reduce the time it takes to get data to and from their customers. This is according to ProLabs, a global leader in optical networking infrastructure. ProLabs is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa by Networks Unlimited. ProLabs notes that the result of these forces outlined above is the development of the edge data centre, also known as edge computing. To some degree, data centre operators have reached the limits of what can be done in large, centralised locations. Therefore, operators are creating new architectures for their data centres, and edge data centres are the result. Minimising latency ...
SEACOM Launches SD-WAN Services in Kenya
Image sourced from the Design Quarter. SEACOM, a leading pan-African ICT service provider, is expanding to bring its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) services to Kenyan businesses, offering reduced connectivity costs, increased security, agility, and local support to customers. SEACOM’s experience with ICT infrastructure in Africa is extensive; the company launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system in 2009 and provides continent-wide secure Internet. SD-WAN Solves Modern Network Problems for Businesses With the increased global adoption of cloud applications, mobile workforces, and voice and video communications becoming the new norm, traditional networks have been placed under significant pressure to meet increasing demands. Using a legacy network solution can ...
Challenges Faced in South Africa Haven’t Stopped Its Race to Join a Digital Future
The health of the IT landscape in South Africa and the country’s position in both the continental and worldwide markets could come into question. But we really need to be looking within our borders as to how South Africa will fare in the long run and how the tech sector can aid in a more positive outcome. South Africa’s Race to Join the Digital Global Village The race is on. South Africa has been slow to adopt technology in the past, but due to COVID-19, we’ve seen improved connectivity, digital competition, and more and more evidence that we are part of a global village. This has opened us up to massive opportunities outside the borders of South Africa and created a huge number of jobs in the local technology sector. Regardless of what sector, most organisations, including those in South ...
Storing Data in the New PoPIA World
Sourced from Tapscape /* custom css */ .tdi_4_64f.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_64f.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } With the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI Act or PoPIA) being enforced, more and more South African companies must reconsider their data storage location policy especially when a public cloud is in the picture. Thomas Dubus, VP EMEA at Aiven. Uncertainty with Cloud Storage Cloud companies are global entities–how would you know if your South Africa specific data was being sent to India or Spain for processing? /* custom css */ .tdi_3_c4d.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_c4d.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } The answer is to check that the cloud provider can offer services in a geographically limited area. Many providers will in fact s...
Synology Launches DSM 7.0 and C2 Cloud Expansion – Taking Data Management into Next-Gen
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_d6f.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_d6f.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Synology today announced the imminent release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.0 and a massive expansion of the Synology C2 platform with four new cloud services. Focusing on enhancing security, system management capabilities, and improving data collaboration, DSM 7.0 is an enormous step forward for Synology’s NAS and SAN product lines. Building upon the success of C2 Storage, Synology is rolling out both hybrid and cloud-only products, including a new password manager, directory as a service, cloud backup, and secure file transferring solutions. Synology is heavily invested in expanding the availability of its cloud platform by starting work on opening a new data centre location t...
