IDU Holdings, a financial planning and analysis software company, has set its sights on replicating its success in Southern and Eastern African countries in other markets in Africa. The company’s recent restructuring, including the merger with IDU KZN, has set the company up for the next phase of growth. Margie Whitten rently joined IDU Holdings’ […]

Thales has announced an agreement to acquire OneWelcome, a European leader in the fast-growing market of Customer Identity and Access Management, for a total consideration of €100 million. OneWelcome’s strong digital identity lifecycle management capabilities will complement Thales’s existing Identity services (secure credential enrollment, issuance and management, Know Your Customer etc) in order to offer […]

Cisco and Telefónica Tech have announced a partnership that will provide an innovative managed service with an impact not only in Latin America but the entire world. The service is based on SDWAN, security and SASE architectures. With this new service, companies seek to provide security mechanisms for large and medium-sized global companies from the […]

ABB and Red Hat has announced a global partnership to enable industries using ABB’s process automation and industrial software to rapidly scale and flexibly leverage Red Hat’s industry leading enterprise platforms and application services built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  “Together, we intend to streamline the transition from automated to autonomous operations and address current […]

Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, has announced that it has named Matt Hicks as its President and CEO. Hicks, who previously served as Red Hat’s Executive Vice President of Products and Technologies, succeeds Paul Cormier, who will serve as Chairman of Red Hat. Known as a hands-on leader within Red Hat, […]

From Edge to core to cloud, Scality has responded to demand for storage strategies by renewing its focus toward program additions for partners. Scality channel executives have announced that they’ve bolstered the company’s partner programme with new training enablement, incentives, additional support and renewed focus. These additions will position partners for accelerated growth as market […]

Stephen van der Heijden, VP of Growth, OfferZen, tells us how companies can adjust to the shortage of software developers. Software developers with specific skills and languages were in short supply before the pandemic and continue to be in short supply in South Africa. How can companies adjust to the new realities after the pandemic? […]

The attainment and rebrand of TDS Global’s Communications Compliance Practice from Kerv looks to serve the UK’s Tier 1 financial sector and help organisations migrate to cloud services. Kerv, the next-generation customer-first cloud and Digital Transformation services provider, has announced the acquisition of the Communications Compliance Practice business of TDS Global Holdings to significantly enhance […]

John Graham-Cumming, CTO, Cloudflare, discusses the problems the company solves and the geographical spread of these customers.  Can you give us a high-level overview of Cloudflare and today’s problems that the company solves? Cloudflare is a global cloud platform designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast and reliable. Our mission […]

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has announced changes to its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) senior leadership team. The reshape of the team includes the appointment of Ana Maria Ciurea as VP commercial operations, Peter Lambrecht as VP sales and Rastislav Jasenovsky as VP operations for infrastructure and […]