E-Business
Dell Drives Workstation Innovation with New CoE
Earlier this year, Dell opened its first Virtual Workstation Centre of Excellenc (CoE) in Round Rock, Texas to provide customers and partners with the necessary resources and expert advice to help them leverage virtualized workstations and architect a solution to best suit their business needs.
Similarly, the multinational computer technology company said it is delighted to announce that the Dell Solutions Centre in Limerick, Ireland, has now expanded to include its first European Virtual Workstation Centre of Excellence.
By providing a physical location with remote access capabilities, Dell customers, channel partners and independent software vendors will be able to replicate and test their desired configuration or full end-to-end model to ensure the hardware and software environment meets their requirements.
This will help more European organisations transition their environments, allowing customers to safely access their data from multiple devices and locations – supporting better collaboration and increased productivity for today’s dispersed teams.
Customers will also be able to schedule meetings with virtualization specialists to discuss their unique IT infrastructure challenges, overcome any concerns they may have about no longer having physical workstations on every desk, and explore how Dell technology and applications can enhance their end users performance, mobility and security.
According to statement made available to Nigeria CommunicationsWeek through the Company, it is recorded that European customers such as Caterham F1 Team are already benefitting from the adoption of virtualised workstation solutions.
Over the past year the team’s designers, responsible for developing the car’s aerodynamics, have replaced Dell Precision workstations with Dell Wyse zero clients.
These small black boxes now sit alongside high-definition monitors and connect designers to the rack-mounted Dell Precision workstations residing in the data room, which provides access to all the high-end design programmes they use every day.
The solution has assisted Caterham F1 Team in moving towards reducing the number of devices tied to individuals, reducing the cost, time spent and power consumed managing multiple devices and helping to lower noise and heat levels in the office.
Also, it’s helped to simplify overall processes and improve flexible working capabilities.
“It is better that designers are not tied to one particular desk. They regularly need to physically move locations when they hook up with different units across the team. Anything we can do to simplify that change is good for the business and for the designers,” said Alistair Gardiner, HPC Support Engineer at Caterham F1 Team.
As an end-to-end solutions provider, Dell has thousands of conversations with customers each day, and strongly believes that organisations should be able to talk through solutions and see them in action before having to commit to a decision.
The Centre of Excellence will allow local and remote customers to carry out performance benchmarking, subjective user-assisted testing, and even help customers to choose the right endpoint devices and monitors – paving the way for more European customers to test drive applications and explore workstation solutions.
Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and needs urgent reforms to revive it, according to Isaac Kekemeke, board chairman of the service.
Kekemeke, who spoke at a workshop organised for NIPOST staff in Abuja yesterday, added that it is now time to go the whole hog to reform and make NIPOST fulfill its destiny to compare and compete favourably with multinational postal agencies.
“The approach may not be palatable at all times but we need to take the tough but necessary decisions to exit the intensive care unit. We are either out of ICU in good health or head for the morgue. NIPOST either functions effectively now as a commercialised state operator or gets privatised, so that myself, the PMG, and a good number of you risk the loss of our jobs,” the chairman said.
No doubt, he added, “Change is not always easy as many loathe change because of the uncertainty it brings but it is in my place to urge you all to embrace the change we advocate.”
The Internet Society’s six-month Fellowship Peering program continues to help make internet access affordable, dependable, and resilient. The program, according to the global charitable organisation, is targeted for fifteen professionals in the peering and interconnection sector.
“It offers a unique opportunity to build the skills, knowledge, and networks necessary to improve local Internet infrastructure and policy,” according to the site’s description.
The fellowship participants will participate in a comprehensive curriculum that includes virtual training sessions, collaborative forums, and technical and advocacy-based instruction on routing, Internet Exchange Points, and policy.
The fellowship culminates in attendance at a global peering event, which provides direct experience and networking opportunities with important voices in the Internet community.
The fellowship enhances participants’ impact in their particular nations by developing engagement with seasoned professionals and boosting regional and global collaboration. The program invites fellows to return to their communities prepared to expand interconnectivity, improve policy conditions, and make a meaningful contribution to the development of the Internet ecosystem.
Applicants must have at least three years of Internet experience and be based in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, or Asia-Pacific.
Eligibility also required proper travel documentation and availability to attend important events such as African Peering and Interconnection Forum, Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Forum, or Peering Asia, as well as a commitment of roughly four hours per week over six months.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called for the withdrawal of the amendment of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 because it seeks to regulate the activities of bloggers operating within the territorial boundaries of Nigeria.
The organisation in its letter urged Mr Godswill Akpabio, Senate President, and Mr Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives, to “immediately withdraw the repressive bill.”
The titled A Bill for an Act to Amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023, to Mandate the Establishment of Physical Offices within the Territorial Boundaries of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Social Media Platforms and for Related Matters among others intends to regulate bloggers, including by requiring all bloggers to register local offices and join recognised national association for bloggers.
Currently, the bill has passed its first and second reading in the Senate.
In the letter signed its deputy director, Mr Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP asked Mr Akpabio and Mr Abbas “to ensure that any amendment to the Nigeria Data Protection Act promotes and protects the rights of bloggers and other journalists and does not undermine the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.”
It demanded an end to “the imposition of unnecessary restrictions on the rights of Nigerians online and Internet-based content.”
In the letter dated April 12, 2025, the group said, “This bill is a blatant attempt to bring back and fast-track the obnoxious and widely rejected social media bill by the back-door.”
“If passed, the bill would also be used to ban major social media platforms—including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok, and independent bloggers if they ‘continuously fail to establish/register and maintain physical offices in Nigeria for a period of 30 days.
“Lawmakers should not become arbiters of truth in the public and political domain. Regulating the activities of bloggers and forcing them to associate would have a significant chilling effect on freedom of expression and lead to censorship or restraint.
“Should the National Assembly and its leadership fail to withdraw the bill to regulate the activities of bloggers, and should any such bill be assented to by President Bola Tinubu, SERAP would consider appropriate legal action to challenge the legality of any such law and ensure it is never implemented in the public interest,” the organisation warned.
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