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Business Success and Nimbleness Accumulated in Cloud Gets Serious

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The outstanding business value delivered by cloud technology has seen numerous small businesses boom into global giants.

 

“Cloud computing is the not-so-secret key to a business’ success,” said Anton Jacobsz, managing director of value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited.

 

“For years, the mantra for good business has been to have a brilliant support system in place so that execs can focus on the business at hand – and cloud offers an excellent IT core on which to build and grow a business.”

 

He highlighted further benefits such as cost reductions, due to cloud-based operations requiring fewer staff and less hardware.

 

“And, the cloud is the ideal playground for apps, the shop door to many businesses today,” he noted.

 

He pointed out that the cloud division of Alibaba Group, the world’s largest online and mobile e-commerce company, showed a 96 percent growth from the first fiscal quarter of 2017 to the first fiscal quarter of 2018. “It has also been widely reported that it has been growing its investment in the cloud and building new data centres.

 

“Naturally, we are most pleased that Mellanox’s 25GbE and 100GbE ConnectX-4 EN family of Ethernet adapters is deployed in these new data centres,” said Jacobsz.

 

“We hope African businesses and entrepreneurs are taking notice.”

 

Networks Unlimited distributes Mellanox solutions throughout Africa, and has been an advocate of the company’s innovative technology since inception.

 

Mellanox’ ConnectX-4 Network Interface Cards (NICs) feature cutting edge technologies including: RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and Data Path Development Kit (DPDK).

 

In essence, RDMA technology is designed to solve the delay of server-side data processing in network transmission. It enables network adapters to access the application buffer directly, bypassing the kernel, the CPU, and the protocol stack, so the CPU can perform more useful tasks during the I/O transport. This improves server performance, thus enabling application workloads to be highly scalable with high bandwidth networks.

 

RDMA is based on converged Ethernet and can be implemented on an existing open Ethernet network. Of benefit is that with RoCE, there is no need to convert data centres’ legacy infrastructures, which allows companies to save on capital spending.

 

RoCE also enables introducing RDMA technology seamlessly into an Ethernet data centre, which benefits applications by making them more efficient, without requiring massive changes to the current network infrastructure.

 

DPDK is a technology that provides a simple and complete framework for fast packet processing in data plane applications. The tool set allows developers to rapidly build new prototypes.

 

The Mellanox open source DPDK software enables industry standard servers and provides the best performance to support large-scale, efficient production deployments of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) solutions such as gateways, load balancers, and enhanced security solutions that help prevent denial of service attacks in the data centre.

 

“We are encouraged by Alibaba Group’s utilisation of Mellanox’ technologies and hope to see similar successes through our collaboration with Mellanox Technologies in our region of operation,” concluded Jacobsz.


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Transcorp Hotels Delivers Stellar H1 Results, Declares Over ₦1Bn Dividend

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Transcorp Hotels Plc has delivered a stellar performance in the first half of 2025, recording a 60% year-on-year surge in revenue to ₦47.57 billion, up from ₦29.72 billion in H1 2024. Gross profit climbed 71% to ₦36.21 billion, maintaining a strong 76% margin despite inflation and operational headwinds.

The hospitality giant, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc, also announced an interim dividend payout of ₦1.024 billion — offering ₦0.10 per 50 kobo ordinary share to shareholders.

In a bold move, the company unveiled Nigeria’s largest corporate venue — the 5,000-seat Transcorp Centre — staking its claim as the new leader in event hospitality. Chairman Emmanuel Nnorom described the results as proof of Transcorp Hotels’ transformative strategies and unwavering investor commitment. MD/CEO Uzo Oshogwe attributed the success to relentless execution and a resilient business model.

Transcorp Hotels, renowned for iconic assets like Transcorp Hilton Abuja and its digital platform Aura, says it isn’t just leading Nigeria’s hospitality sector — it’s redefining excellence across Africa.


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Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

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Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.

Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

 

China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.

The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.

“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.

The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.

It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.

Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.

Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.

Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.

A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.

“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.

Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.

Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.

It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.

Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.

 

 

 


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NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

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National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has issued a public warning that it is not associated with NINcard.com.

NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

According to the commission, the website has been circulating online to offer services for Nigerians seeking National Identification Number (NIN) services.

NIMC, in a post on its official X account on Wednesday, said, “NINcard.com is not in anyway affiliated to NIMC. Stay vigilant!”

The warning was accompanied by screenshots of fake payment receipts and OTP request pages from the website, both of which were boldly stamped “FAKE” by NIMC to alert the public.


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