NETSCOUT Systems has released its latest global threat intelligence report, which exposed the dangerous trend in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on digital infrastructure across West African countries in the first half of 2025, Nigeria inclusive. According to the report, countries like Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali were most hit within the first…
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a collaboration with Cisco to deliver a significant evolution in converged infrastructure that builds on over 20 years of work together. The newly introduced NetApp AFX architecture now integrates with Cisco Nexus switches for intra-cluster connectivity and will soon extend to FlexPod AI. This integration…
Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push. OpenAI It wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late…
A report by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), a global coalition dedicated to enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, has put the average annual loss of infrastructure, including buildings caused by disasters in Africa, at $12.7 billion. According to the report, of the damage, 70 per cent is…
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application,…
When we think of building an SGR railway line, a massive hydroelectric dam, or a modern expressway, the first image that comes to mind is usually billions of dollars in financing, often from foreign loans, or grants. Rarely do we pause to imagine that the foundation of such mega-projects can be laid with something as…
Nigeria is hosting one of Africa’s biggest tech gatherings on Tuesday, with debates ranging from Wolof-speaking chatbots to medical algorithms. The ambition is to harness artificial intelligence to transform economies – but patchy internet, unreliable electricity and low investment remain major obstacles. In Lagos, the African Digital Economy and Inclusion Conference is bringing together policymakers,…
Adil El Youssefi, Chief Executive Officer, Africa Data Centres. (Image: Africa Data Centres) In May 2025, a brief yet wide-reaching internet outage in South Africa, caused by a single point of failure in a core internet exchange, revealed just how exposed even mature digital ecosystems can be. The interruption only lasted a few minutes, but…
BulkSMS powers ahead under new parent brand, Celerity. (Image: Supplied) BulkSMS, one of South Africa’s most established and trusted business messaging platforms, enters an exciting new chapter as part of Celerity, a newly launched parent brand focused on powering secure, scalable communications infrastructure across the continent and beyond. With over two decades of experience delivering…
Kigali Recently Hosted a Star — studded edition of the Giants of Africa Festival, held from July 26 to August 2. The week-long celebration brought together over 320 young people from 20 African countries and featured appearances by global stars, including two-time NBA MVP Kawhi Leonard and Nigerian music sensation Ayra Starr, among others. This…
