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Month: April 2021

VOGSY and Incentro partnership to boost productivity and profitability in the services industry in Africa

Bob Koigi05 mins

VOGSY, the quote-to-cash Professional Services Automation solution built for Google Workspace users, and Incentro Africa, the Nairobi-based branch of the full digital service company called Incentro, announced today their new partnership. Through VOGSY’s global Partner Program, Incentro Africa will help its customers across Africa harness VOGSY’s unique Google Workspace integrated platform to run their quote-to-cash operations…

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Siemens and Google Cloud partner on AI-based solutions in manufacturing

Bob Koigi04 mins

Google Cloud and Siemens, an innovation and technology company in industrial automation and software, have announced a new cooperation to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor.  Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for…

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[Africa Cloud Review] Simon Ngunjiri: Cloud computing is the technological revolution of the twenty-first century

Nixon Kanali04 mins

One of the key drivers of Africa’s cloud computing boom is the unquestionable benefits the technology brings to the ICT sector.  For some African sub-regions, the cloud computing model has already come to represent a solution to IT under-equipment problems, and the trends indicate that this model is set for major development provided certain accompanying…

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[Interview] Nick Treurnicht, Customer Engineer for Google Workspace, DigiCloud Africa, South Africa

Nixon Kanali014 mins

Nick Treurnicht is the Customer Engineer for Google Workspace at DigiCloud Africa, Africa’s Google Cloud Brokerage, specialising in Google Cloud products – including Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Google Maps and Chrome. Kindly introduce yourself and your role at DigiCloud Africa. I have been working with Google Workspace since 2013 and have sold it, trained on it,…

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[Africa Cloud Review] Simon Ngunjiri: Africa is Undergoing a Revolution in New Cloud and Data Centre Capacity

Nixon Kanali05 mins

Compared with other Data Centre markets around the world, Africa is unique in the sense it has a population of over 1.3 billion people and a total landmass of 30,365,000 km. This is according to the The “The Cloud and Data Centre Revolution in Africa” report released last year. The report notes that this huge population has…

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[Column] Anthony Njoroge: The importance of flash storage for the cloud

Bob Koigi05 mins

As cynicism about the benefits of the cloud give way to rapidly embracing digital transformation, companies are finding themselves in a position where they must optimise their infrastructure. While the modern cloud environment delivers improved performance and more responsive use of resources, it must be configured properly with the relevant hardware in place. This is…

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[South Africa] Nedbank enables business continuity and employee remote work with Nutanix

Bob Koigi05 mins

Nutanix, a player in private cloud, hybrid and multicloud computing, has announced that Nedbank, one of Africa’s largest financial institutions, is leveraging the Nutanix cloud platform to improve and facilitate the rapid delivery of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling employees to work from home. To ensure that the banking industry…

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[South Africa] Mazule Fuels Growth with Infor SunSystems and Sapphire Anywhere

Nixon Kanali05 mins

Infor, the industry cloud company has announced that mineral and energy trading company Mazule has selected Infor SunSystems. The solution will be implemented by Infor partner Sapphire Systems, and hosted on its Sapphire Anywhere SaaS platform. The cloud-based solution is set to streamline accounting processes, facilitate in-depth insights, and expedite reporting for the metals, minerals and coal trading specialist.  With…

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