Optiva Inc., an innovative software provider of mission-critical, cloud-native, monetization solutions to leading communication service providers (CSPs) globally,has announced that Vodacom Tanzania has expanded its partnership with Optiva for utilization of Optiva Charging Engine™ and Policy Control (PCRF). The multiyear agreement enables Vodacom Tanzania to upgrade its current platform and support and take another step…
The African cloud has arrived. Yesterday, afriQloud went live in Uganda, with plans to launch in 15 additional African countries in 2020. afriQloud will provide, at internationally competitive rates, local and foreign customers with an innovative and secure distributed edge cloud service. It is a product of pan-African connectivity provider, BringCom, science and technology investor,…
Pan African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, is hosting the “first of its kind” cloud conference in Mauritius on Thursday 27 June 2019. The conference, taking place at Hilton Mauritius Resort and Spa is being organised in partnership with Microsoft to help local businesses improve their understanding and use of cloud services to improve productivity and…
Leapfrogging Africa’s innovation agenda with local cloud solutions Pan-African connectivity provider, BringCom, in partnership with science and technology investor, Imprimatur Capital, and European edge cloud software company, GIG Technology, have together birthed what is to provide the African technology industry with cloud sovereignty – afriQloud. Today launched in Uganda, afriQloud will provide, at internationally competitive…
This is a crucial step for the migration of core network elements to the cloud and paves the way for the transformation of the core network to support next generation mobile network technology.
The Birst 7 software release is generally available (GA) now, as both a cloud-based offering and as an on-premise virtual appliance
Ten years ago, business technologies had saturated to breaking point. The potential they offered were diminished by their deployment and maintenance costs. Then virtualisation, cloud and similar technologies emerged to offer new capacities and optimisation. Companies were able to vastly simplify their technology stacks, as is evident by even large enterprises moving wholesale to service-centric…
Cloud computing has been in existence for almost two decades now helping businesses stay secure from cyber threats. The technology points to business efficiencies, cost benefits and holds a very competitive advantage. Currently, a large portion of the African business community continues to operate in the cloud. In fact, according to a study by International…
Pan-African telecoms enabler SEACOM has further extended its corporate market offering into the East African region, under its SEACOM Business brand, by providing its Internet connectivity and cloud services directly to corporate customers in Uganda. SEACOM has been a leading data connectivity provider in Uganda enabling access though the service provider segment. It is now bolstering its presence in…
It is only 100 days since I took up the post of VP for Africa at Oracle, but already it is clear why the continent is such a priority for the company, and why it is considered a land of opportunity in the tech space. Consolidation of modernisation Africa is seeing huge population growth, and…
