Image sourced from Ben Kerckx, Pixabay. The services industry has traditionally included sectors ranging from social assistance and health care to transportation and scientific services. However, it doesn’t end there, because the human talent for innovation can turn almost anything into a service. We also find – rather less top-of-mind for most people – the offer of hitmen-as-a-service, usually associated, at least in Hollywood, with large and well-muscled men in expensive suits and sunglasses. A few years ago, this area of business moved into the cyber arena as well. And so we present: ransomware-as-a-service. Today, one of its latest offerings is a ‘triple threat’ that turns Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks into an even more lethal cyber weapon against organisations. Carole H...
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...
Image sourced from Herald Live. Huawei CloudEngine 16800 — the industry’s first data centre switch in the AI era — won the Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop Tokyo 2020, Japan’s largest ICT exhibition. The award recognized the product’s cloud infrastructure and series of differentiators, such as super capacity, intelligent experience, and autonomous driving, as well as features such as the highest density 400GE, AI-powered iLossless algorithm, and millisecond-level Telemetry (data collection technology). This is the second time that Huawei data centre network has won the highest honour in the ICT industry, having also won Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop Tokyo 2018. Huawei CloudEngine 16800 wins Best of Show Award Grand Prize at Interop Tokyo 2020. With the rapid developmen...
South Africa’s MTN Group yesterday announced the appointment of Burak Akinci as CEO of Simfy (ayoba), reporting to the MTN Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer Serigne Dioum. Akinci will also be in charge of the company’s ayoba super app. Effective 1 September 2021, Burak joins MTN from Turkcell, a converged telecommunication and technology services provider, founded and headquartered in Turkey, where he was CEO of BiP, an instant messaging platform with millions of users across 192 countries. Burak, with over 20 years of experience in marketing, digital businesses and technologies, led the build-out of the BiP platform, which has more than 30 million users. In his new role, he will be based in Cape Town. “We are thrilled that an executive of Burak’s calibre is joining us. His appointme...