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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Launches Multi-Cloud Data Centre Solution in South Africa
Sourced from Silicon Angle /* custom css */ .tdi_4_b63.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_b63.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has brought a new multi-cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) data centre solution to the South African market. This powerful multi-cloud data centre model is all about leveraging the cloud to define the customer experience, while underpinned by HPE’s GreenLake platform. This unique multi-cloud offering is the latest culmination of a long-standing partnership between HPE and Datacentrix, and the infrastructure power of Teraco – Africa’s largest data centre ecosystem. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_66b.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_66b.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } “With their expertise and knowledge of cloud ho...
6 Surprising Future Tech Norms Shaped by the Pandemic
Image sourced from Texas News Today The move to handling essential elements of everyday life online, prompted by the global COVID-19 pandemic, will remain a fundamental reality for people around the world long after the pandemic has passed, a comprehensive new consumer report by Ericsson predicts. The Future Urban Reality, the Ericsson ConsumerLab report is Ericsson’s largest consumer study to date. It reveals key insights about what consumers believe will happen beyond the pandemic to the year 2025. Representing the equivalent opinions of 2.3-billion consumers across 31 markets worldwide, the report predicts that consumers will not only continue to manage routine activities – such as remote work, e-learning, e-health and online grocery shopping – online but will also add an average of 2.5...
Windows 11 Has Leaked Revealing Brand New Start Menu, UI, and More
Image sourced from Paul Thurrot. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_ced.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_ced.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, the much-rumoured and nebulous Windows 11 has leaked online, with footage revealing a new, more-simplified user interface, start menu, acoustics and much more. check out our full Windows 11 hands-on for more. And yes, there’s a dark mode and you can move the Start menu back to the left side 💻 Lots more information here: https://t.co/VDS08QPsl5 pic.twitter.com/3wP57DEJak — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 16, 2021 The Verge writes that the new operating system features a UI very similar to that which was originally running on Windows 10X. Window 10X featured a simplified version of the UI for dual-sc...
E-Livestock and Mastercard Launch Blockchain-Based Solution to Aid Farmers in Zimbabwe
Image sourced from Feed Navigator. E-Livestock Global today launched a first-of-its-kind solution powered by Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, empowering Zimbabwean farmers to prove the origin and health records of their cattle, while reducing risks to buyers. First-of-its-Kind A first in the Middle East and Africa, the solution brings new hope to Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector after an outbreak of tick-borne disease in 2018 led to the death of 50,000 cattle. The lack of a traceability system has seen Zimbabwe unable to export beef to lucrative markets in Europe and the Middle East in recent years, reducing export earnings from beef, which are important to the country’s economy. The E-Livestock Global solution brings end-to-end visibility to the cattle supply chain. Commer...
Kenyan Food Delivery Startup Secures $1-Million Pre-Seed Ahead of August Launch
Image sourced from TechCabal. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_0b0.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_0b0.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Upcoming Kenyan food delivery startup Kune has closed a pre-seed funding round at $1-million in investments. The startup, which seeks to prepare and deliver freshly-made, ready-to-eat meals at affordable prices, will look to use the capital boost to scale its on-demand services before its planned launch in August later this year. The pre-seed funding round was led by Pan-African venture capital consortium, Launch Africa Ventures, and supported by Century Oak Capital GmbH, Consonance and Pariti, an ecosystem management firm. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_884.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_884.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Kune on the Go T...
Remote Working Leads to 78% Increase in Cyberattacks Worldwide
Even though social media platforms are flooded with news of companies proudly presenting the fact that they are permanently shifting to a remote-work environment, they usually do not mention the fact that the pivot has created major issues for their security. Unpatched personal devices, erratic employee behaviour, and inadequately protected home networks create many loopholes for threat actors to exploit. What the Stats Say Carbon Black, a company that provides workload protection services surveyed 3,542 CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs to find out if WFH (work from home) resulted in an increase in cyberattacks. Respondents were from various industries and 14 different countries. The survey was published in June 2021. The study shows that a whopping 96% of enterprises in France saw a significant incr...
MTN to Launch OpenRAN Network in Africa
MTN Group is leveraging its expansive footprint across Africa to test and ultimately deploy OpenRAN – an innovative technology that will enable it to launch new services more quickly, cost-effectively and seamlessly, supporting future strategies in line with the company’s Ambition 2025: Leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress. MTN plans to modernise its radio access networks using OpenRAN. This is in line with one of five vital enablers of MTN’s strategy: to build technology platforms that the company believes are second to none, thereby allowing for the rapid expansion of 4G and 5G population coverage across its markets. With up-to-date technology, MTN expects a reduction in its power consumption and associated carbon emissions. This, in turn, supports its plans to decarbonise its...
Ghana Sees Huge Surge in Digital Communications with COVID Pushing Customer Experience
Image sourced from Goobjoob Education. To a large extent, enhancing the customer experience (CX) has been a game of catch-up for most organisations in Ghana, until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic which significantly accelerated the uptake of digital channels by enterprises last year. As the pandemic drove consumers to avoid traditional physical interaction with brands, so many corporates were forced to move their services and products online. For example, many insurance companies that used third-party agents before the pandemic are now adopting digital channels at a significant rate. This is to allow customers to buy policies online, via Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) or through a mobile app or website. Not only was the adoption of digital channels significantly accel...
3 Freshest & Latest Trends for Cloud Security in 2021
Sourced from InfoWorld. With cloud security continuing to be a hot topic in 2021, Fortinet and Cybersecurity Insiders decided to ask cybersecurity professionals around the world and across all industries for their latest insight. The brand new 2021 Cloud Security Report reveals how more than 500 cybersecurity professionals —from technical executives to managers and IT security practitioners — are responding to security threats in the cloud, how their organisations are using the cloud, and the best practices they are prioritising. Let’s take a look at some of the key findings. 1. A Diverse Digital Landscape – The Role of Cloud Security First, and perhaps not surprisingly, organisations continue to rapidly adopt the cloud to meet key business objectives. And that trend doesn’t...
Windows 10 is Being Retired – What We Know About Windows 11
Sourced from The Sun UK. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_993.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_993.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Windows 10 Home and Pro are set to be retired on 14 October 2025, no doubt as a harbinger to the launch of Windows 11. Pro Educations and Pro for Workstations versions of the OS are also included in the date. This comes according to Microsoft’s official Windows 10 life cycle page, however, this information doesn’t appear to be new. A PC Magazine article from 2015 reflects that Windows 10 has been slated to be retired in 2025 since the year of its release. This is in line with Microsoft’s policy on operating systems – 5 years mainstream support followed by another 10 years of extended support. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_ac2.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.t...
Standard Bank Partners with Microsoft to Boost Innovation and Drive Growth in Africa
Image sourced from Regent Lighting. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_3c0.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_3c0.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Yesterday, Standard Bank and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the digital transformation of Africa’s largest financial institution and further drive the continent’s growth. The Bank’s growing investment in the Microsoft Cloud will enable the innovation, efficiencies, and resilience required to respond to market dynamics and customer needs. This partnership builds on the 30-year relationship between the two companies and involves migrating workloads, applications, and platforms to Microsoft Azure to drive organisational efficiencies, as well as workforce collaboration with Azure, PowerApps, Workplace Analytics and Micros...
Mobile vs Desktop: Which is Better for Trading?
Image sourced from VorteXz Signals. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_d09.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_d09.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } There’s no doubt that Africa has become increasingly active from an investment and economic perspective of late, with this thanks largely to a huge increase in mobile penetration rates and accessibility. To this end, smartphone sales in Africa grew to comprise 6.6% of the global marketplace in 2019, compared with 6.3% in 2018 and just 5.9% in 2017. The continent is expected to make up 7.1% of the worldwide market in just two years’ time, as it continues to grow incrementally and impressively. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_910.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_910.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } But is your smartphone the best option for...
