Epicor signs four new channel partners in Africa
2014-02-05
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IBM Research Lab opens its door in Kenya
2013-11-16
His Excellency, the President of Kenya, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the in Nairobi. The new research facility is IBM’s 12th global research lab and the first commercial technology research facility in Africa.Read More…
Liquid unveils biggest data centre in East Africa
2013-09-19
With the launch of East Africa Data Centre Ltd., The Liquid Telecom Group today unveiled its biggest carrier-neutral data centre in East Africa offering secure and reliable space for dedicated hosting,Read More…
SAP helps Kenya Ports Authority save millions
2013-08-23
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has experienced phenomenal growth over the last 12 years. Traffic through the port of Mombasa, East and Central Africa’s main maritime gateway, has increased by 7.4% per annum.Read More…
UK based distributor Astel opens office in Kenya
2013-07-31
Astel UK Ltd is a leading IT distributor providing high end IT infrastructure solutions, office automation and physical security products across the Sub Sahara region opened an office in Nairobi to service East Africa.Read More…
Headset Solutions to distribute Radvision and Knoftel
2012-02-08
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…
Central Bank of Kenya upgrades its clearing system
2012-01-19
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…
Exinda embarks on African growth journey
2011-11-03
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…
Shahab Meshki to head Altech Kenya
2011-11-03
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…
IBM helps Kenya Petroleum to increase productivity
2011-10-26
Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited has implemented a new solution from IBM to increase the productivity and efficiency of the company’s oil refinery operations in East Africa. The solution, based on IBM Maximo asset management software, will allow KPRL to better utilize its production equipment, facilities and IT systems to reduce risk and control costs. The agreement was finalized by IBM’s business partners Computer Source Point Ltd and Powertech IST Data.Read More…
Kenya Data Networks unveils its new data center
2011-09-09
Kenya Data Network unveiled state-of-the art data center in Nairobi that will serve the growing requirements of hosting data and software applications for local and international organisations in Kenya. Kenya Data Network also expects to cater the demand from companies hailing from East Africa and Central Africa. In line with the vision of Kenya to create a green economy, the data centre is powered by solar energy as well as is designed to consume less energy in running the facility thereby insuring the cut on carbon emissions.
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South Africa leads the African ICT sector
2011-08-03
South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya will be the key players in the African ICT sector in the next five years. A survey conducted by Africa Business Panel among 800 business professionals involved with Africa shows that these 3 countries were earmarked as the continent’s favourites when it comes to the future of the ICT sector. Ghana, Egypt, Rwanda, Botswana, Angola, Uganda and Zimbabwe are the runners up and complete the top ten countries out of 53 economies on the African continent. Virtually all African economies show promising year-on-year growth.
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