Africa stories - Page 35

The first half of 2017 alone saw $18.2 billion invested in mergers and acquisitions, up from $7.6 billion in all of 2016 and $6 billion in 2015.

Gartner has released the findings from a global survey that delved into organisations' data and analytics use and the potential for the market.

Mimecast enhances its cyber resilience strategy with key hires: Janet Levesque as SVP of Systems, Risk and Security, and Marc French as Chief Trust Officer.

Epsilon provides access to an interconnected mesh of subsea cable providers, enabling connectivity between Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The data center is equipped with high-capacity space for network carriers, subsea operators, enterprises and hyperscale providers.

Flexenclosure has been instrumental in the deployment of prefabricated data center technology into many developing nations.

Commvault has announced the appointment of Owen Taraniuk as head of worldwide partnerships and market development.

Asia Pacific will be a hotspot for security assessment vendors as it becomes the fastest growing region in the world between 2017-2022.

Australia, New Zealand, Finland and the United Kingdom have been named the most innovative countries, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

Neustar launches its latest DDoS mitigation solution, SiteProtect NG, amid rising attack rates, betting on large-scale nodes for enhanced defence.

Hundreds of questions surround the power supply of data centres - Vertiv attempts to answer them in an upcoming webinar.

Vertiv has put together a report of the five trends the company expects to impact the data centre ecosystem in 2018.

Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications and Internet Solutions of South Africa have launched the Nexcenter Parklands Data Center in Johannesburg.

.com or .co.za allows for a blank slate when it comes to marketing and can be used and understood in any language across the globe.

SAP and Huawei are highly compatible, with SAP as a provider of enterprise applications and Huawei as a provider of IT infrastructure.

Only 53% of ANZ business leaders are digitally literate, according to ISACA's Digital Transformation Barometer research.

Westcon International's operations are to be streamlined as parent company Datatec focuses on improving the disties financial performance.

Over 30 million South Africans have had their personal information leaked online, in the biggest breach of its kind in the country's history.

The rise of IoT has resulted in unprecedented data demands, and the Internet’s current infrastructure is struggling to keep up.

One of Africa's largest ICT events, Open Access, is celebrating its fifth year of connecting people and technology to build Africa's Internet ecosystem.