Alviva Holdings, one of Africa's largest ICT products and services providers has invested in a robust, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) and backup solution. Partnering with VMware Cloud Verified Partner Routed, the distribution giant is using a consumption-based DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution hosted on VMware Cloud at two of...
The cloud market in South Africa is predicted to grow by up to 50% next year. The prediction comes as the cloud market currently expands at around 30% per quarter. Currently, analysts estimate that half of all servers currently being shipped worldwide are being bought by...
Global cloud software company NetApp® has teamed up with NVIDIA to advance its supercomputing infrastructure. The announcement sees that NetApp EF600 all-flash NVMe storage combined with the BeeGFS parallel file system is now certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™. The new certification simplifies artificial intelligence (AI) and...
Global leader in cybersecurity, Sophos, has unveiled new advancements to its Sophos Cloud Workload Protection, including new Linux host and container security capabilities. The added features have been created to accelerate the detection and response of in-progress attacks and security incidents within Linux operating systems, improve security...
Cloud security innovation leader Orca Security has revealed the current state of cloud security in its latest report focusing on alert fatigue. The company surveyed over 800 IT professionals across five countries and ten industries to make robust findings into public cloud security alert fatigue. The...
Global data streaming platform Confluent has announced new capabilities as part of its Q2 2022 launch strategy. New features include customer lag monitoring, clear organisation of data and integration with Grafana Cloud. The Expanded Confluent Cloud Metrics API delivers enterprise-wide observability to optimise data streaming performance...
The Cloud Security Summit Africa, supported by Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria(CSEAN) brings together 250+ IT and Business heads from cross-industry verticals across Africa with an aim to foster discussions around the deep seated challenges, progress needed and tech reforms advised for the African...
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world's largest air cargo handler headquartered in Paris, has opened a new Security Operations Centre (SOC) for the Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa (EMEAA) region in the city, providing centralised 24/7 monitoring of its cargo handling operations. Located in Paris...
NDR, EDR and XDR – these buzzwords often cause confusion among IT decision-makers who are responsible for their company's cybersecurity. In many cases, due to the numerous offers and the differently advertised scopes of services, it is not clear what exactly is hidden behind these...
Our changing world, with its more distributed infrastructure and new applications and workloads exposing a larger attack surface, means that perimeter security, while still an important element within an enterprise’s cybersecurity arsenal, is simply no longer enough. This traditional ‘castle-and-moat’ principle, which assumes that all security...
