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- 24 Mar 2019
Comercio Cloud Computing Wins Huawei Cloud Partner of the Year 2018 Award
Comercio Cloud Computing Limited, Nigeria’s premier indigenous cloud computing company, has been announced the winner of Huawei EBG: Cloud Solutions Partner of the Year Award on 20th March at Huawei…
- 7 Nov 2021
Why your Company Needs to Switch to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is accessing and storing your information on storage in an external location, rather than locally. In fact, you probably utilize cloud computing on a daily basis without ever thinking…
- 29 Jul 2021
NITDA to Use Cloud Computing Policy to Support Galaxy Backbone
NITDA to Use Cloud Computing Policy to Support Galaxy Backbone National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has promised to influence the implementation of the Nigeria Cloud Computing…
- 19 Oct 2013
Cloud Computing is ICT Future – MainOne CMO
Cloud computing has been described as the future of the IT world in terms of data storage and security. Folu Aderibigbe, chief sales and marketing officer, MainOne, West Africa’s leading…
- 28 Jul 2021
Cloud Computing: Important in Fostering Digital Economy Growth – DG NITDA
Cloud Computing has been referred as the essential way of delivering services especially in database, networking, artificial intelligence and analytics over the internet, to offer faster innovations,…
- 20 Jul 2020
Experts Seek More Investments in Cloud Computing to Drive Adoption
Experts in the field of technology have called for fresh investments to drive the adoption of cloud computing in Nigeria. This is even as they stressed that Cloud computing has the potential to…
- 25 Apr 2014
NCS’ Cloud Computing Workshop Postponed
The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has postponed its Cloud Computing Workshop earlier slated for Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), according to a short statement by Iyiola Ayoola, director,…
- 7 Jul 2014
WAFICT Congress to Focus on Big Data, Cloud Computing
As big data and cloud computing increasingly occupy the core of global activities in service delivery for both private and public sectors, how can governments and businesses in West Africa key into…
- 7 May 2014
HP to Invest over $1Bn in Open-Source Cloud Computing
Hewlett-Packard said it plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to develop and offer cloud-computing products and services. The company said it will make its OpenStack-based…
- 22 Feb 2013
Business Connexion Boosts Cloud Computing in Nigeria, Targets SMEs
Business Connexion, Africa’s leading provider of Data Centre and Cloud Computing Services, officially launched their highly efficient and secure Cloud Computing Services in Nigeria, promising local…
- 23 May 2014
‘Cloud Computing Central to ICT Development Strategies in Africa’
African standardization experts have reiterated the importance of ITU-T’s cloud computing work to the continent, requesting in addition that ITU-T investigate cloud’s implications for Africa’s legal…
- 25 Apr 2013
Vodacom Offers Solutions to Cloud Computing Challenges
Upon identifying psychological barriers, cost savings, loss of control and a host of other challenges as limiting companies’ interest in cloud computing, Vodacom Business said it can upturn these…
- 21 Jan 2016
Microsoft Philanthropies to Donate $1Bn in Cloud Computing Resources
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer, Microsoft Corporation, announced a new three-part initiative to ensure that Microsoft’s cloud computing resources serve the public good. As part of this…
- 21 Apr 2020
Cloud Computing Solutions Can Assist Significantly to Reduce Banking Costs in Africa - Report
More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. This is due to the high cost of providing financial services in Africa…
- 22 Jul 2015
Global Public Cloud Computing Nearing $70Bn in 2015- IDC
Cloud, as one of the substantial transformative forces, is impacting all areas of IT supply, composition, and consumption and provides the basis for many of the big data, mobile, and social…
- 25 Oct 2017
Networks Unlimited Offers Local Clients Hottest Global Tech in Cloud Computing
“When it comes to IT innovation, the cloud certainly has shown itself to have the most precious lining,” stated Anton Jacobsz, managing director at value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited. …
- 22 Feb 2013
Nigeria is Honeypot for Cloud Computing-NITDA
Professor Cleopas Angaye, director general, Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NiTDA) has said that although Nigerian economy is yet to derive full benefits of cloud computing due to…
- 15 Sept 2024
Huawei Wins $3m Cloud Computing Contract from UBA
Huawei has won a $3 million cloud computing contract from the United Bank for Africa (UBA), which will see Huawei provide UBA, one of Nigeria's largest financial institutions, with 200 petabytes of…
- 28 Oct 2018
Rack Centre Now Positioned to Offer Cloud Computing Services – Coker
Ayotunde Coker is the managing director of Rack Centre a data centre operator; he spoke to Nigeria CommunicationsWeek on the recent expansion of Rack Centre facility which enables it to offer…
- 26 Mar 2014
ITU Approves Standard on Desktop-as-a-Service Cloud Computing
ITU members have achieved first-stage approval (‘consent’) of a new standard on Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solutions, the latest addition to ITU-T’s growing series of cloud computing standards. The…
- 29 Jul 2016
Oracle to Buy NetSuite to Gain Cloud Computing Clout
Business software maker Oracle Corp said yesterday it would buy NetSuite Inc for about $9.3 billion in cash, a deal designed to help Oracle gain market share in the fast-growing cloud computing…
- 8 Sept 2016
Recession: 5 Things Cloud Computing Could Do for Your Business
If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably heard about cloud computing by now. The main benefits are cost savings and greater flexibility, but there is so much more that a powerful, integrated cloud…
- 19 Jan 2015
NIALS Reveals Cloud Computing Inhibitive Factors in Nigeria
An in-depth independent research by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) , research focused on the Gaps in Data Privacy and Security in cloud services, has revealed…
- 16 May 2018
iSON Technologies, Oracle, Make Case for Cloud Computing Security
iSON Technologies, a leading technology services in Africa and Oracle’s platinum partner urge organizations to adopt Cloud Computing Security for business transformation. The companies made…
- 29 Apr 2013
Efficient Bandwidth Drives Cloud Computing- John
Sony Mathew John is a senior research analyst with International Data Corporation (IDC) Middle East, Turkey, and Africa and is responsible for conducting research on IT services and contributing to…
- 29 Nov 2013
Nigerian Businesses go to Cloud Computing
A report released at the weekend revealed that 44% of Nigerian businesses say they will embrace the Cloud in the coming year, although Nigerian businesses still lag behind, with only 36% of them…
- 2 Dec 2015
Nigerian Led ITU Group Discusses Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring
The Fifth meeting of the ITU’s Focus Group (FG AC) on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring ends today in Frankfurt, Germany and was hosted by Lufthansa Airlines. The…
- 6 Jan 2015
Huawei SZays Cloud Computing Lifted Sales Revenue by 15 percent
Chinese telecoms equipment maker, Huawei Technologies expects advances in cloud computing and higher demand for smart devices to have lifted 2014 sales revenue by 15 percent to $46 billion, CEO Ken…
- 21 Dec 2015
ITU Members Agree International Standard for Big Data, Cloud Computing
ITU members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data. The international standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well a high-level ‘system…
- 1 Mar 2016
Galaxy Backbone, WACREN Ink Agreement for Cloud Computing, Shared Services Infrastructure
Galaxy Backbone Ltd, a leading ICT infrastructure and services company in Nigeria is set to empower tertiary institutions and Research Education Networks (RENs) in West and Central Africa with its…