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Leading IT security distributor in Africa, SecureData Africa announced that it has been appointed as the distributor for AirTight Networks in the sub-Saharan African region. AirTight SpectraGuard Enterprise provides continuous, automated protection against all current and emerging wireless threats, which can jeopardise sensitive data as well as affecting performance, critical applications and end-user satisfaction. Unauthorised access points (APs) connected to the enterprise wired or wireless network are considered rogue APs. Read More…

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The AngloGold Ashanti group, headquartered in Johannesburg, is a leading global gold producer with 20 operations across four continents. Following the successful implementation by Cortell Corporate Performance Management of IBM’s Cognos TM1 solution into the South African operations, the decision was taken to carry this product into four sites in the Continental Africa Region. Cortell was once again contracted to implement TM1 at Semos and Yatela in Mali, the third of the AngloGold Ashanti Continental Africa TM1 rollouts after Obuasi and Iduapriem in Ghana. Read More…

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Leading business-mapping software developer, MindGenius partnered with Tech Africa to increase its penetration of products and services into the African continent. MindGenius mind mapping software allows organisations to effectively capture, manage and work with information within their organisation and specifically delivers business value in activities such as project planning, brainstorming, strategic planning, task management and information mapping.Read More…

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Inter-carrier billing and routing optimisation solutions Specialist, i-conX Solutions is to implement its Routing Optimisation solution at Canar Telecommunication in Sudan. Canar, an existing customer of the i-conX Interconnect Billing solution since 2007, chose i-conX Routing Optimisation Core along with two additional modules for managing Quality of service, and for real-time dashboard reporting on the Network. Canar now enjoys a integrated billing and routing optimisation solution, based around a single core database architecture with fully harmonised reference data management.Read More…

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South Africa based Headset Solutions has taken distributorship rights for Radvision and Knoftel to expand its product portfolio from Plantronics and Aastra to audio and videoconferencing with cutting-edge technology. Radvision has been an innovator and leading provider of products for videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks, since 1992. Radvision propels the unified communications evolution forward with unique technologies that harness the power of video, voice and data over any network.Read More…

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NEC appointed Masahiro Yoshikawa as President to lead NEC’s sub-Saharan African business from its new sub-regional headquarters in Johannesburg and to oversee the expansion of NEC operations in the region with establishment of its branch offices in Kenya and Nigeria. Masahiro Yoshikawa has over 30 years’ experience providing solutions and services to customers around the world and across Africa in the IT and telecoms industry. Most recently he led the business for Middle East and African market as Deputy General Manager and has worked at the International Sales and Operations Business Unit, NEC Corporation.Read More…

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Verizon expanded its global enterprise network platform in the Middle East region to enable multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon’s Private IP service. The expansion will make it possible for Verizon customers with locations in these emerging markets to more effectively exchange data and global business applications and employ the company’s world-class managed network and security solutions. Leveraging the strengths of Verizon’s global multiprotocol label switching network and the reach of the company’s network alliance provider Vodacom Business in Africa, Verizon enterprise customers can add Private IP services to their offices in: Gabon on Africa’s western coast; Djibouti and Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa; Malawi and Zimbabwe in Eastern Africa; and Swaziland in the southern region.Read More…

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After completing the merger with Samsung hard disk business, Seagate consolidated its distribution strategy in the region and appointed the erstwhile distributor of Samsung storage solutions, ECS Distribution as the authorised distributor for Seagate in Egypt. ECS will distribute both Seagate internal and external hard drives for the retail market, on a non-exclusive basis. “This is an exciting time in the storage industry with rapidly evolving opportunities in many markets including mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage. With their understanding of local market characteristics and requirements, these four new distributors are well placed to take advantage of these opportunities to grow their business and Seagate’s business in the region.” said, Mark Whitby, vice president for EMEA Sales and Marketing of Seagate.Read More…

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As the single point for the clearing of all cheques and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) transactions in the country, the Central Bank of Kenya clearing house can ill afford any database downtime. Sybrin Systems teamed up with RDB Consulting to deliver high availability and uptime with Oracle’s Standard Linux database and fully redundant servers.
Sybrin Systems, a company that specialises in payment processing solutions, mainly across Africa, was awarded the contract, adding to their high profile client portfolio. The solution involved 41 banks using Sybrin Systems’ Client Participation Module, providing an interface to their Central Bank Clearing Module, running off high end clustered servers with Oracle’sStandard 11g database. Read More…

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South Africa based Jasco Broadcast Solutions, signed an partnership agreement to represent the leading content storage management solution provider Front Porch Digital for the entire Southern African Development Community region, Southern and Eastern Africa as well as Mauritius and Seychelles. Front Porch Digital the leaders in content storage management (CSM), migration and preservation of videotape to digital files. The company delivers end-to-end solutions for cost-effectively digitising, accessing, and preserving media and accelerating the migration of videotape to optimised and secure digital storage. Read More…

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Business software and services company, Vision Solutions has signed up iAxcess as its African distributor for business continuity, disaster recovery and data replication solutions. According to Vision Solutions, the partnership strengthens and expands its African and Middle East presence in the market. The solutions provider commits to support iAxcess with pre-sales services, training, technical expertise and marketing around business continuity.
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World’s leading storage solution provider, WD announced the appointment of Anamika Budree, as its country manager of South Africa. With this move WD expects to gain greater penetration in the local market and establish a strong base in South Africa. During the course of 2011, WD gained ground in the retail market in South Africa, signing an agreement with Massmart to stock branded WD products across stores throughout the country. The vendor also has three distributors with distinctly different markets.Read More…