How 250 Zambian clinics swapped paper files for the cloud

How 250 Zambian clinics swapped paper files for the cloud

Paratus Zambia has deployed Starlink low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity across 250 health facilities in Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces through its partnership with Right to Care Zambia (RTCZ), supporting digital healthcare delivery in remote communities. RTCZ is a non-governmental organisation with expertise across the HIV and tuberculosis case-finding and treatment spectrum. Supported by the…

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Fear of foreign shutdowns drives local cloud demand

Fear of foreign shutdowns drives local cloud demand

Africa risks regulating AI it doesn’t own, says the African Union. (Image created with GenAI) Geopolitical uncertainty is prompting organisations to rethink where their data and artificial intelligence (AI) models reside, increasing interest in local cloud hosting and sovereign AI. The US, under president Donald Trump, and Israel launched strikes against Iran in February over…

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Intellinexus, Apeiros successfully deliver enterprise cloud data platform on Snowflake for Achievement Awards Group

Intellinexus, Apeiros successfully deliver enterprise cloud data platform on Snowflake for Achievement Awards Group

Intellinexus team at Achievement Awards Group. Intellinexus is proud to announce the successful completion of a strategic cloud data platform implementation for Achievement Awards Group (AAGROUP), delivered in partnership with Apeiros. Built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, the project modernises AAGROUP’s data ecosystem and lays the foundation for advanced analytics and future AI/ML capabilities….

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Silicon Overdrive, AWS AI streamline cloud migration

Silicon Overdrive, AWS AI streamline cloud migration

Rodney de Koch Cloud migration can prove complex and costly, and may even fail, often because discovery is incomplete and manual. Cost, time and downtime are also among the reasons for migration failure. However, generative and agentic AI can help overcome these challenges to accelerate cloud migration and support business modernisation. This is according to…

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iOCO targets AI, cyber security, cloud acquisitions

iOCO targets AI, cyber security, cloud acquisitions

Ashona Kooblall, group CFO of iOCO. Technology services group iOCO plans to expand its portfolio through acquisitions in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, cloud and digital transformation, as it seeks to capitalise on demand for modern technology following a 39% increase in annual profit. Ashona Kooblall, group CFO of iOCO, told ITWeb yesterday in an…

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Top ICT tenders: School admin system heads to the cloud

Top ICT tenders: School admin system heads to the cloud

Service providers are sought for the supply of cloud services for the South African School Administration and Management System. (Image source: iStock) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, requiring the ICT industry to turn to local government, as a wide range of metro, district and local municipalities come to the party with…

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Why cloud and AI investments don’t automatically pay off

Why cloud and AI investments don’t automatically pay off

Cloud and AI investments do not automatically create business value. That was the verdict from a recent executive roundtable hosted by TechCentral in partnership with Cloud On Demand and Microsoft on 3 September 2026, where C-suite executives and senior technology leaders examined what they called “The Margin Illusion”: the assumption that adopting cloud and AI…

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Agentic AI and the SA cloud paradox

Agentic AI and the SA cloud paradox

Mark Walker, director and co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i). Organisations should sequence AI spend as incremental to cloud modernisation, not as a parallel track – particularly because security, compute and financial control are all moving faster than the traditional allocation models can absorb. This is according to Mark Walker, director and co-founder of Transformation…

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Standard Bank and Huawei forge strategic cloud partnership

Standard Bank and Huawei forge strategic cloud partnership

Standard Bank and Huawei executives signing a strategic cloud partnership agreement Standard Bank has deepened its strategic technology collaboration with Huawei as the group accelerates the modernisation of its banking platforms to support growth, innovation and greater financial inclusion across the continent. Announced at Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai, the expanded partnership will focus on…

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