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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…

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Leading South African IT consultants, RDB Consulting announced to have partnered with Oracle to offer database security. After working closely with Oracle for such a long time brining Oracle’s database security products into RDB portfolio was a natural extension. Having this database knowledge, experience and expertise is vital for adequate database security and for the running and maintenance of security products. RDB now is able to offer a full spectrum of services around the database including security providing its clients with access to a complete solution from a single vendor.Read More…

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Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) announced that the country’s outsourcing industry achieved the ICT export revenue to the tune of $1.1bn and it expects that the next wave of growth would easily help them to achieve the target of $10bn by 2020. The sector has recorded strong and consistent growth this year, with a 12% increase in the number of ICT companies in Egypt, and a nearly 10% increase in the number of people employed in the sector. Read More…

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Cairo-based Bright Creations in partnership with Etisalat Egypt, announced the release of Sawtak, an online and mobile application that gives Egyptian citizens the information they need to understand the Egypt electionary process and how they can go about voting in the upcoming landmark parliamentary elections. The application will be accessible on www.sawtak.me, and available for download for iPhone, Blackberry and Android Smart phones, and critically, available as a WAP site for more basic handsets.Read More…

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South Africa based 4most, the SAP Business One software specialist entered the fast growing Zambian market for accounting, financial and ERP solution designed specifically for companies operating in the high-growth SMME and SMB sectors through Interim Management and Consultancy (IMAC). Zambia has a strong market with 60 000 SMME businesses and 20 000 SMBs and these entrepreneurial companies can reap the many business benefits that accrue from the affordable SAP Business One mid-market financial and ERP software solutions.Read More…

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Samsung Electronics West Africa recently partnered with the Nigeria based leading IT distribution company Technology Distributions to target the West African ICT market more effectively and penetrate further into Nigeria. Technology Distributions Limited is one of the largest IT distributors in West Africa with a network of over 350 Resellers and 150 employees with a presence in several countries in Africa like, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia.Read More…

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South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

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Leading WAN optimisation and application performance management solution provider, Exinda recently embarked on its African growth journey with the opening of an office in South Africa to drive the business in African continent. Now, it extended its reach in the continental Africa with the appointment two Kenya based resellers Adwest Communications and IntraCom primarily to cover East African market, while, Mauritius based User-Tech Solutions will cater to Indian Ocean islands region.Read More…

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Intel Egypt announced the appointment of Eng. Karim El Fateh as the new country manager for Egypt, where he will focus on making technology accessible to the different segments of Egyptian society by working closely with our ecosystem partners and making technology more accessible and affordable; and growing Intel’s business in Egypt in the fields of consumer and education. Karim El Fateh joined Intel in 2004 and held several key positions before elevating to the current level of Country Manager for Egypt.Read More…

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Kenya based largest data and internet backbone in East Africa, Altech Kenya Data Networks (KDN) the provider of comprehensive suite of services over its 6,000 km fibre optic network, including Internet Protocol services, broadband transport, infrastructure and collocation services appointed Shahab Meshki as the CEO. Meshki comes with over 20 years of working experience in the information technology and telecommunications sector, brings a wealth of global management experience and expertise in the convergence of IT and telecommunication services. Read More…