Microsoft staged a historic rally last week, adding nearly $450 billion in market value in a single trading session, the largest one-day gain on record for any publicly traded company. The unprecedented surge was driven by stronger-than-expected cloud growth forecasts and robust cash generation projections for the coming fiscal year. Read: Cape Town approves the…
Mark Walker, director & co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i). Several tech industry experts will present at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026, including Mark Walker, director and co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i), who will focus on the inevitable impact of agentic AI on the evolution of the cloud ecosystem. Walker is among several industry…
Gregory MacLennan, CEO and co-founder of Digicloud Africa. The first Google Cloud Summit to be held in Africa generated massive excitement in the local market – an indication that the Google AI groundswell is here. This is according to Gregory MacLennan, CEO of Digicloud Africa – Google Cloud distributor for Africa and sponsor of the…
ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026 is an opportunity for tech leaders, cloud architects and business decision-makers to unpack how AI-driven infrastructure is reshaping IT. ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026, on 29 September in Bryanston, will highlight the opportunity for organisations to leverage the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud, which results in powerful managed AI models…
For many CIOs and technology leaders, the greatest cloud challenge today is continuity. Across Africa’s banking, insurance, fintech and public sectors, digital services have become mission-critical. Customers expect real-time transactions, always-on access to apps and seamless digital experiences. Governments rely on cloud-based platforms to deliver citizen services, while businesses depend on cloud infrastructure to run…
Saidu B. Samaila & Co. Chartered Accountants, through its Training & Management Consulting Division, has entered into a strategic partnership with Chamco Digital LLC, a Microsoft Solutions Partner headquartered in Houston, Texas, to launch a comprehensive AI & Cloud Technology Workforce Training Programme aimed at developing globally competitive digital talent across Africa. The 14-week intensive…
Businesses continue to underestimate the security risks embedded in modern voice networks. Too many treat voice services as simple telephone calls rather than as complex IP-based systems exposed to the same threats as the rest of their digital infrastructure. According to Peter Bokaba, network manager at Centracom, this misconception is leaving organisations vulnerable to voice…
The cloud industry has measured success using the wrong metric. For a decade, adoption was the metric that mattered. How many workloads migrated, how many organisations crossed the threshold from on-premises to cloud. These are real achievements. The effort that went into them is not in question. But adoption was never a measure of value….
Lyndon Marescia, CEO and founder of Adinga. Vision, growth, partnership, impact Business Cloud Africa (BC Africa) is the vision of two well-respected names in the IT industry: Lyndon Marescia, CEO and founder of Adinga, and Alan Nicholson, CEO of Unilynx Business Systems. Propelled by their unwavering belief in the power of partnerships, and united by a…
Helen Kruger, CEO of Troye. (Image: Troye) The biggest mistake CIOs make about cloud is believing that adoption equals modernisation. It does not. In many cases, cloud has simply given them a more expensive, more fragmented and harder to manage version of the infrastructure problems they were trying to escape. This is becoming a serious…
