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2022 Predictions: 5 Fibre Trends to Watch
Shane Chorley, Head of Sales and Marketing at Frogfoot If there is anything that 2021 has taught us, it is that you cannot take anything for granted. The local fibre landscape is evolving rapidly: changes in home and workplace behaviour, driven by the pandemic, means that demand for quality, reliable connectivity continues to surge, while recently seen consolidation among Fibre Network Operators (FNOs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is bringing a new dynamic to the industry. For Frogfoot’s part, we have been continually upgrading our network in order to keep up with the volume of capacity – we have seen close to a doubling of data usage across the network over the past two years – as there is a sustained shift online for work, education and entertainment purposes. Going forward, her...
Mass spyware campaign unveiled
Mass spyware campaign targets thousands of ICS computers around the world, Kaspersky From the 20th of January to the 10th of November 2021, Kaspersky experts uncovered a new piece of malware that has targeted more than 35,000 computers across 195 countries. Dubbed “PseudoManuscrypt” for its similarities with the advanced persistent threat (APT) group Lazarus’ Manuscrypt malware, this new malware contains advanced spying capabilities and has been seen targeting both government organisations and industrial control systems (ICS) across numerous industries. Industrial organisations are some of the most coveted targets for cybercriminals – both for financial gain and intelligence gathering. In fact, 2021 saw significant interest in industrial organisations from well-known APT groups like Lazaru...
Air Côte d’Ivoire launches Wifi service
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MTN Zambia and HUAWEI Launch 5G
Huawei Vice President for Southern Africa, Mr. Phil Li, Minister of Technology & Science Mr.Felix Mutati, MTN Zambia CEO Bart Hofker and ZICTA Director General Mr.Mulenga Chisanga Leading mobile services provider MTN has today rolled-out its fifth generation pilot mobile (5G) network, making it Zambia’s first mobile service provider to do so. In partnership with the Chinese Tech giant and leading 5G vendor Huawei, MTN has officially paved way for Zambia’s new mobile network era, making it a pioneer of Zambia’s evolving mobile service provision. In 2013, MTN partnered with Huawei to build the first ever 4G and GSMR network and later built the first 4.5G network in 2016. Gracing the 5G Demonstration in Lusaka today, Minister of Science and Technology, Felix Mutati said the launch of 5G t...
Altron Group Chief Executive Mteto Nyati to Step Down
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The trends that defined 2021
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2022 Predictions: Technologies That Will Reinvent Our Digital Future
Mohammed Amin, SVP – Middle East, Russia, Africa & Turkey (MERAT), Dell Technologies 2021 was a year of recovery and resilience, and one that brought extraordinary shifts in the way we live and work. Technology has been an important pillar throughout it all, helping the world to connect and collaborate, as it transformed the fundamentals of healthcare, commerce, education and financial services across the global economy. Going into 2021, we predicted that a few key technologies, would shape the future of business as organisations strived to become digital at heart. These included Hybrid Cloud, Edge, 5G, Intelligent Work Solutions and AI/Automation technologies – all of which accelerated the pace of digital transformation and brought some major opportunities and shifts in the way organi...
What will online privacy and security look like in 2022?
Image sourced from Intel. In many ways, 2021 was a landmark year for online privacy. In April 2021, Apple rolled out an update allowing users to opt out of app tracking, with most iPhone users having done so by the end of the year. There were even talks to disable tracking technology on the world’s most popular web browser. We also saw movement on the legislative front, with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) coming into effect in July. (Kenya and Nigeria’s equivalent acts came into effect in 2019). In fact, Gartner predicts that modern privacy laws will cover 75% of the world’s population by the end of 2023. But there’s also clearly still a lot of work to be done. By the end of September 2021, there had been more data breaches than in the whole of 2020, impactin...
South Africa: 40% of healthcare providers use medical equipment with a legacy OS
Image sourced from Healthcare Finance. Medicine has always been a field where innovations play a crucial and truly life-saving role. However, during the pandemic, the healthcare industry was forced to significantly speed up the implementation of new developments. Indeed, this pace of change and urgent digitalisation within medical organisations was noted by 81% of executives in a recent Accenture report. To determine whether this mass transition to telehealth is keeping pace with security measures, Kaspersky conducted a global survey of healthcare providers. The research found that organisations globally widely use medical equipment with a legacy OS, mainly because of high upgrade costs, compatibility issues, or a lack of internal knowledge on how to upgrade, among other reasons. The usage...
What are the Top Storage Trends for 2022?
With 2021 behind us, we look at the storage market to see an exciting 2022 ahead of us. Cyber resilience, AI, supercharged application and workload performance and availability, and reduction of OPEX and CAPEX in today’s world of hybrid cloud and containers – all of these come together to frame up the next 12 months. Understanding these enterprise storage trends will give you an advantage and help you formulate your strategic IT plan going forward. Read what is coming your way in 2022. Trend #1: THE critical nature of data and cyber resilience from the storage estate within the corporate/company cybersecurity strategy The threat of cyber-attacks has reached such a feverish pitch that 66% of Fortune 500 CEOs named it their #1 business threat in the Fortune 500 CEO survey in mid-2021. Simila...
umlaut has awarded MTN Cameroon the Best in Test 2021
umlaut has awarded MTN Cameroon the Best in Test 2021 mobile certificate umlaut – now part of Accenture – has awarded MTN Cameroon the Best in Test 2021 mobile certificate for scoring an impressive 564 dots out of 1000 in a mobile network benchmarking survey to measure the mobile network in Cameroon. For the extensive crowdsourced data analysis, 74.4 thousand users contributed 175 million samples in 6 months (W19 2021 to W42 2021). In the nationwide assessment, 80.3 % of the urban ‘build-up area’ and 90.9% of the ‘Population area’ were tested, which constituted a total area size of 42,619 km2. MTN Cameroon excelled in 3 categories, including best in test, best-rated user download speed, and best-rated latency. Click here to view the benchmark report. Staff writer Previous ...
New app tracks family planning supplies in Kenya
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