Enterprise IT
Networks Unlimited Welcomes New Networking & Storage GM
Gideon Coetzee, new General Manager: Networking and Storage at Networks Unlimited. The appointment earlier this year of (Frederick) Gideon Coetzee as the General Manager: Networking and Storage Division at Networks Unlimited brings a wealth of IT and entrepreneurial experience into this arena of the company. Known to all by his middle name, Gideon Coetzee is a confident executive with around 20 years’ professional experience in developing and implementing business and sales strategies, building high-performance teams for solution selling at chief experience officer levels, and driving synergies in order to achieve business efficiencies to maximise revenues and profitability. His career is too extensive to include all the stops along the way here, but some highlights are mentioned below. Ha...
Construction Begins on ‘Largest Data Centre in Africa’ Worth $1-Billion
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‘No Honour Among Thieves’: Don’t Pay the Bad Guys say Rubrik & Microsoft
Image sourced from Mohamed Hasan – Pixabay. 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 data management company Rubrik. “The two companies will combine on products that will help customers hit by ransomware to recover their critical data without paying the ransom,” says Risna Steenkamp, General Manager: ESM Division at Networks Unlimited, which distributes Rubrik throughout Africa. “Data is one of a company’s most valuable resources, and it is critical that a business should not feel forced to ...
FirstNet Technology Services Broadens its Security Offering with EDR Solution from Fortinet
Image by Darwin Laganzon, Pixabay. FirstNet Technology Services, a First Technology Group company, has broadened its security portfolio offering to include endpoint detection and response (EDR). As a long-time Fortinet partner, FortiEDR was the natural choice. This is according to Dave Campbell, Product Manager: Cloud Services at FirstNet, who explains, “FirstNet holds an Advanced Level partner status with Fortinet. Our cloud and security services are underpinned by a range of Fortinet products, with the use of solutions including FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, FortiEDR, and FortiToken, which makes the FirstNet and Fortinet partnership a compelling offer for our customers.” “This experience has made us one of the top Fortinet partners in South Africa with a wealth of technical and...
New Multi-Billion Rand Data Centre Facility Built in South Africa
Image of Teraco’s CT2 Data Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. Teraco Data Environments, one of Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services providers, has announced the completion of Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town, which is now the largest data centre in the Western Cape province of South Africa. According to a statement from Teraco, the new facility is set to support the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity in the country and further. CT2 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco’s long-term vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa, the company says. An exterior shot of Teraco’s CT2 data centre. Teraco’s CT2 Data Centre The fir...
Delivering the IT Solutions Needed for Seamless Business Operations
For over a decade, Vodacom Business has supported DHL Express with the IT infrastructure needed to maintain its leading position within the logistics industry across the African continent. As a business that depends on a reliable network, DHL Express’s IT infrastructure and system uptime are critical to providing the quality service that their customers expect. DHL Express needed an IT and communications partner who could scale and grow with them. Over the past 10 years, Vodacom Business has done just that. “Our business is about being able to efficiently and timeously provide services to our customers,” says Ken Balman, Head of IT DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa. “We needed a technology partner that could cover our multinational footprint while supporting and driving our digital agenda. Vo...
Orderin CEO Gives 5 Simple Ways SMMEs Can Become Competitive in eCommerce
Thembani Biyam, CEO of Orderin SA. A few years ago, the majority of South Africans had never made a single purchase online. Today, the local e-commerce market has experienced a massive boom as lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, made online shopping feel like the safer, and sometimes the only, option for consumers. According to a 2018 report from shopping centre and property research company, Urban Studies, retail sales in the country reached a new high of R1-trillion ($65-billion) in 2017 and yet online shopping merely accounted for 1.8% of total retail spend that year. To give some context to just how far South Africa lagged behind in the e-commerce market, 19% of all British, and 10% of American retail spend in the same year, came from online purchases. Fast f...
Cost of Custom Software Application Development Services – Outsourcing Guide for 2021
Image sourced from BusinessTech. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the global software development industry has seen a steep upward trend. Many entrepreneurs are also entering the market with new innovative software products. Research shows that the demand for custom application development is at an all-time high in 2021 as more and more people are relying on software solutions in their personal and professional spheres of life. Custom software development is vastly different from buying and using commercially available software, therefore, the first and most frequently asked question about custom development services is about cost. Everyone is curious about how much it costs to develop a custom software application but the truth is, there’s no exact answer to this question. The cost of cus...
Flickswitch Announces its Revamped White Label SIM Management Platform for Telcos
Flickswitch, a leading IoT SIM Management provider across Africa, is excited to announce the launch of its newly revamped SIMcontrol online self-help platform. Since its launch to customers in 2007, Flickswitch has provided SIM management services on over 16 mobile network operators across the African continent. “Over the past decade, our product has proven good value to our customers, but we have also identified key areas of improving supporting mobile network operators’ digital transformation process,” explains Rudi Barnard, Executive Director of Flickswitch. “With Flickswitch White Label Platform, we are significantly elevating business customers’ experience of working with a large number of SIMs and building the infrastructure necessary for delivering even more advanced features around...
Businesses Need to Be “Data Driven” for True Digital Transformation says Altron
Image sourced from Planful. Over and above leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services; it has been widely acknowledged that the key building block for true digital transformation is the need for businesses to become data-driven. Of course, this is a uniquely challenging task for almost every business. Dealing with the Data Challenge At the core of any data strategy lies the need to fully manage and exploit data as a strategic asset throughout its entire life-cycle across the enterprise. This has proven easy for companies born in the cloud, but inherently challenging for organisations that are not. Becoming data-driven requires the will, capacity, resources and discipline to rethink how a business operates from people to processes as well as the technology that glues these e...
AI & Data Storage: Tintri & DDN Together Enable this Symbiotic Relationship
Image by Mohamed Hassan: Pixabay. In the field of enterprise IT, artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that we’ve seen used time and again over the past few years, with the promise of making every part of a business better. What does this mean specifically for data storage? This is the question posed in a recent Tintri blog, which clarifies that AI can be considered as any system that can sufficiently process data to augment, mimic or, in some cases, replace human cognitive functions. As outlined by Tintri co-authors Erwin Daria, Ram Narayanan and Kurt Kuckei, AIs perform within a ‘feedback loop’ that can be categorised by the following key stages: Data analysis: where data is fed into the AI. Inference: where the AI infers a condition from that data. Prescription/action: in most case...
Paratus to Open Brand-New Data Centre in Zambia
Image sourced from Capacity Media. 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 to rent space within the data centre for their equipment and servers. Businesses can choose from a range of options, including dedicated, shared, caged, and private suite options. Paratus’ new data centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The benefits of using colocation services include unlimited 24/7 physical access to equipment and the facility. If a customer is not able to physically make it to the facility, the Parat...
