Liquid Intelligent Technologies has upgraded its 1,300km fibre route connecting Kenya’s east coast city of Mombasa to Busia on the Ugandan border, bringing additional multi-terabit capacity and additional resilience to the region. Read More…
To meet the growing demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services across Africa, and as part of its global cloud infrastructure, Oracle is planning to open a public cloud region in Nairobi, Kenya. An Oracle delegation led by Scott Twaddle, senior vice president responsible for OCI Product and Industries, has met withRead More…
Redington has successfully concluded Chapter 4 of its flagship event, ‘The Vertical’ in Kenya and Chapter 5 in Saudi Arabia. ‘The Vertical by Redington’ is a series of events that showcases tailored industry-specific digital solutions. It brings enterprise-grade technologies for supporting customers in all verticals to accelerate and grow their businessRead More…
Liquid C2, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has revealed that the number of cyberattacks on businesses in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia increased by 76%. This is according to the latest cyber security report – ‘The Evolving Cyber Security Landscape in Africa 2022′. Featuring research,Read More…
In Q3 2022, Kaspersky researchers saw a sharp increase in crypto miner variants – an overall growth of over 230% compared to the same period last year. The number is three times more than in the third quarter of 2021 and now exceeds 150,000. Of all corporate users that wereRead More…
Mitel has partnered with Kenya based value-added distributor, Mart Network to launch remote working & mobility solutions in Africa. Following disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, in the new normal, spending has shifted more towards healthcareRead More…
Although Africa is not necessarily considered a focus area for the more sophisticated types of cybercriminal activity such as targeted attacks or advanced persistent threats (APTs), the continent is certainly not immune to these or other types of cyber risks, warn Kaspersky researchers.Read More…
Kaspersky research showing that stalkerware affected one out of every 100 mobile users in Kenya and Nigeria in 2020 and malware every four out of 100 in South Africa, consumers must remain vigilant when it comes to their online activities if they are to keep themselves safe from the growingRead More…
At this year’s annual Microsoft Inspire Awards 2020, a virtual partner of the year awards event shone the spotlight on the successes by partners in more than 100 countries. This year, 11 winners have been selected from 8 regions in Africa and 3 from the Levant region.Read More…
SlovakAid, a humanitarian relief program from the Slovak Republic sent a plane from Bratislava on Sunday carrying COVID-19 supplies include 50,000 diagnostic tests, one PCR thermocycler device to perform the tests and 20,000 FFP2 respirators, which arrived in Nairobi on Monday morning. Read More…
The ever-increasing devices and connections, as well as a recent increase in remote-working requirements globally due to COVID-19, Safaricom decided to deploy state-of-the-art fibre access network using Nokia’s Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) technology, to address theRead More…
World leading storage brand, Seagate entered into a partnership with Red Dot Distribution to expand its reach across East Africa during the recently concluded security and surveillance event, SecureExpo East Africa in Kenya. Red Dot Distribution, one of the most prominent distributors in the continent with Pan-Africa spread will now beRead More…
