AWS Africa Region opens new cloud opportunities in SA

South Africa businesses have welcomed the opening of the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in Cape Town. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region expands the hyperscale cloud provider’s global footprint to 73 Availability Zones in 23 geographic regions. “The...

DHL launches air freight service from China

DHL Global Forwarding has launched a dedicated 100-tonne weekly air freight service for organisations and governments shipping goods from China to Africa and Middle East. Capitalising on Dubai’s strategic geographical location as the gateway to countries in the...
Fujitsu debuts high-performance servers

Fujitsu debuts high-performance servers

Fujitsu has introduced new superfast servers allowing organisations to accelerate in optimising data-centric applications and gain faster insights from their data. The latest generation of Primergy and PrimeQuest servers gain upgrades with the latest 2nd Generation...

Nutanix .Now event

By Kathy Gibson – The world has never been in a situation like the one we find ourselves in now, and it’s driving renewed pressure for IT to do more with less, remotely. Rob Tribe, senior director: systems engineers Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa at Nutanix,...

5G+ Better World Summit

By Kathy Gibson – Telecommunications has contributed to the world’s efforts in healthcare and continues to be a major player in the fight against Covid-19, with 5G promising faster and better communication. Shaun Collins, CEO of CCS Insight, points out that the UK has...

Virtual Tech Show with T-Systems

Kathy Gibson reports – The economic impacts of the current pandemic are unprecedented – but this has driven a dramatic increase in agility. Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of T-Systems, points out that his company was no different, deploying quick solutions in a matter of days...

How Africa’s fragile economies can recover

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Senior Policy Seminar has shone a spotlight on fragility of growth in African economies. The dialogue seeks to stimulate an informed policy and related policy-making aimed at reducing identified fragile contexts and...