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- 5 Apr 2024
Amazon Web Services Sacks over 500 Staff
Amazon Web Services has eliminated several hundred sales, marketing and tech roles, it said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of job cuts by its parent Amazon.com The cloud-computing arm of Amazon…
- 13 Jul 2016
Sophos Offers UTM Outbound Gateway Protection on Amazon Web Services
Sophos said on Tuesday that its UTM has been the leading solution for protecting network infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for years now. Sophos Group plc is a security software and…
- 25 Sept 2016
Oracle Tops Amazon Web Services on Cloud Database Comparison
Larry Ellison, Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer, during the recent Oracle OpenWorld 2016 demonstrated that Amazon databases are 20 years behind the latest release of the Oracle…
- 6 Mar 2020
Genesys Cloud now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace
Genesys a global leader in cloud customer experience and contact center solutions announced that Genesys Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software…
- 10 May 2023
OPPO Launches 2023 Inspiration Challenge, Investing USD $440,000 to Call for Innovative Technical Solutions
OPPO Research Institute, together with global partners Qualcomm Technologies, GSMA 5G IN, Amazon Web Services and LinkedIn, announced the launch of 2023 OPPO Inspiration Challenge on the World Smile…
- 28 Mar 2022
itel Donates Educational Materials, Others to Lagos, Kaduna Schools
As part of its Love Always On CSR Initiative, mobile phones, accessories and televisions brand, itel, has donated educational materials such as libraries, schoolbooks, school bags, notebooks, and…
- 21 Sept 2023
PwC Nigeria Tech Talent Bootcamp IDs Leaked- Report
Participants in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria Tech Talent Bootcamp are at risk of identity theft after private data was leaked from a misconfigured Amazon Web Services account, according to…
- 11 Oct 2023
Airtel Nigeria Champions Public Sector Participation in Improved Modernization and Digitization
Airtel Nigeria, in collaboration with business partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AVAYA, hosted an exclusive interactive breakfast session aimed at engaging, educating, and exploring the vast…
- 1 Apr 2026
Alleged Drone Strikes on AWS Data Centres Raise Concerns Over Cloud Infrastructure Security
Reports circulating in tech and security circles have alleged that drone strikes linked to Iran targeted data centre infrastructure belonging to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the United Arab Emirates…
- 21 Sept 2021
Africa Prepares to Become World’s First Cloud-native Continent
Standard Bank and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have expanded their strategic relationship and announced the intention to build an African Innovation Lab - an incubator and accelerator of large-scale…
- 11 Dec 2020
AWS Launches Cloud Skills Programme in Nigeria, Others
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launch of AWS re/Start skills development and job training programme in Ghana, South Africa, and Nigeria. In a statement the company explained that AWS re/Start aims to…
- 22 Oct 2019
Sophos Cloud Optix now available on AWS marketplace
Sophos a global leader in network and endpoint security, has announced availability of Sophos Cloud Optix on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace . As a new agentless software-as-a-service…
- 11 May 2026
Firm Warns of Phishing Attacks via Compromised Amazon Simple Email Service Accounts
Kaspersky has detected phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks that are leveraging Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – a cloud-based email service designed for businesses and developers…
- 29 Aug 2019
Cloudenly, Nigeria’s First And Most Extensive Unified Commerce Platform, Set To Launch
Nigeria is about to witness a revolution in business operations with the impending launch of Cloudenly, Nigeria’s first and most extensive commerce-driven platform. This innovation is a…
- 13 Dec 2021
Sophos Detects How Cyberattackers Are Exploiting Apache Log4Shell Vulnerability to Exploit Unpatched Systems
Following the reporting of the Apache Log4Shell vulnerability, Sophos has provided new threat intelligence on how cyberattackers are already exploiting or attempting to exploit unpatched systems. The…
- 7 Jun 2018
eCommerce and the Nigerian Amazon
For long muted on Wall Street, the signal is now clear. Amazon, global e-commerce giant, is on the verge of not only overtaking Apple as the world’s most valuable company but the first company…
- 27 Mar 2022
Amazon will Discover e-Commerce in Africa not a Tea Party
By Tarila Ben-White Feelers indicate that Amazon may now be ready to explore what the continent has to offer on the e-commerce front but the nous and experience of indigenous giants such as Konga…
- 21 Apr 2021
Amazon to Open African Headquarters in South Africa
Amazon, a US e-commerce retail giant, has chosen South Africa as the headquarters for its African market. This development comes a week after Twitter, US-based microblogging and social networking…
- 1 Nov 2021
Amazon Provides Free Cyber security Awareness Training
Amazon is offering businesses and individuals around the world free access to the same cyber security awareness training programme used by the American multinational technology company’s employees.…
- 28 Sept 2017
Global IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew by 31% - Gartner
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud market grew 31 percent in 2016 to total $22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Amazon was the No. 1 vendor…
- 1 Dec 2021
Sophos Cloud Opix Automates, Simplifies Security Response Across AWS Infrastructure
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today unveiled advancements to Sophos Cloud Optix that automate and simplify the detection and response of security incidents across Amazon…
- 28 Sept 2020
Why Businesses Should Take a Long-term Approach to People, Product, and Customers
By Andrew Bourne, Region Manager, Africa, Zoho Corporation, Business success is perceived differently today. Buzzwords like maximization, venture-backed, growth hacking, and well-conceived exit…
- 5 Jul 2021
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos, the American business magnate, who is founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amazon, one of the world’s largest technological organisations will step down from the top position on…
- 16 Jan 2015
IDC Reveals IaaS Vendor Market Leaders, Contenders in EMEA
A new IDC MarketScape report from IDC Government Insights shows that the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is growing rapidly in the EMEA government sector, with both global and…
- 31 Mar 2017
Samsung DeX Station Turns Phone into Desktop
Samsung DeX Station is one of the latest flagship devices from the Company will make available to Nigerians from May 2017. On Wednesday, the South Korean electronics company its latest flagship…
- 28 Jan 2017
Microsoft Profit Rises as Cloud Service Demand Soars
Microsoft has reported a 3.6% rise in fiscal second-quarter profit, helped by growth in its fast-growing cloud computing business, but it saw a slight decline in margins in the unit that includes its…
- 20 Jan 2017
Need for Business Agility Pushing Finance Cloud Market to $29.47Bn
According to report "Finance Cloud Market by Solution (Financial Reporting and Analysis, Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance), Service, Application, Deployment Model, Organization Size,…
- 6 Dec 2013
Top 10 Predictions for IT in 2014
International Data Corporation (IDC) during the week offered the first of its annual predictions for the coming year in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. IDC's predictions…
- 26 Jul 2017
Digital Transformation, IoT to Drive Investment in IT Operations by 2020 - Gartner
The growth of digital business and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. A primary driver for…
- 7 Nov 2017
Microsoft, Oracle & IBM Remains Strong on Public Cloud Services
International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker shows that, the worldwide public cloud services market grew 28.6% year over year in the first half of 2017…