As more and more businesses attempt to scale alongside their Digital Transformation journey, they must implement technology which offers positive results and acts as an enabler. Infinidat has offered Clientèle Life an enterprise storage system which has contributed to the company’s competitive advantage in terms of its storage capabilities. Keith Fagan, Infrastructure Services Manager at […]

Following General Motors’ divestment from South Africa in 2017, Isuzu Motors South Africa embarked on a Digital Transformation journey that helped it to break down internal silos and gain a real-time view over each customer. Loren Meyer, Department Executive, Information Technology, Isuzu Motors South Africa, explains why the company had to build local capabilities to […]

Coficab is a global provider of design, manufacturing and sales of automotive cables and wires. A subsidiary of the Elloumi Group, the company was founded in 1992 by Hichem Elloumi. Recently, the company partnered with Veeam to standardise its backup strategy as it continues modernise its IT infrastructure and enhance operations. Manda Banda finds out […]

EGYPTAIR Tourism and Duty Free Co, has announced a new agreement with IBM to leverage IBM Cloud capabilities to scale and modernise EGYPTAIR Duty Free back-end operations and host its SAP Travel Retail System. By adopting IBM Cloud, EGYPTAIR will also leverage IBM Watson Assistant, an AI virtual agent, to transform their travellers’ shopping experience. […]

As telecommunications operator MTN South Africa continues on the path of innovation in readiness for 5G rollout across South Africa, Intelligent CIO Africa, recently sat with Giovanni Chiarelli, Chief Technology and Information Officer at MTN South Africa, who addressed several new initiatives the telco was rolling out and why MTN remains the network of choice […]

Ninety One is a South Africa-based independent, active investment manager dedicated to delivering compelling outcomes for its clients, managing more than £119 billion (2.6 trillion rand) in assets. Recently it implemented Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) infrastructure, including Single Sign On, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). Scott Carr, IT Platforms Manager, Ninety One, tells us why […]

Datacentrix has assisted local engineering firm, Zutari, in successfully reorganising and relocating the company’s data centre within a four-day period. Stephan Botha, IT Operations at Zutari, discusses the seamless transition and how it has managed to future-proof its environment. Local engineering firm, Zutari (formerly Aurecon Africa), has successfully relocated its data centre, including Storage Area […]

The Knowledge Hub (TKH) Universities is a multidisciplinary educational hub hosting branches of world-class universities, each to participate with undergraduate courses in their areas of strength, providing an intellectually stimulating, enriching and credible educational experience. TKH, located in Egypt’s new administrative capital, has deployed state-of-the-art wired and wireless networking technology from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard […]

First National Bank (FNB) recently deployed Cisco Tetration platform, which provides a detailed view-both real-time and historical-of application connectivity, dependencies and data flows across a hybrid IT environment. Eugene Pretorius, CIO, Infrastructure and Security Services, FNB, tells Intelligent CIO Africa why the implementation of Cisco Tetration platform is a game changer for South Africa’s oldest […]

St Dominic’s School for Girls secures its network, delivering safe Internet access to all staff and pupils-and a proactive approach to IT support. Harry van der Burgt, IT Manager, St Dominic’s School for Girls tells Intelligent CIO Africa, why the school selected SonicWall next-generation firewalls. St Dominic’s School for Girls is a faith-based private school […]

The United Bank of Egypt has embarked on a far-reaching Digital Transformation, reinventing systems and processes. Ahmed Helmy, CIO, United Bank of Egypt, shares with Intelligent CIO Africa why it was important for the bank to embark on this Digital Transformation journey. Challenge The United Bank of Egypt was established with a vision to drive […]

With the aim of reducing application deployment time from weeks to minutes, Orange Sonatel, Senegal’s leading telco recently built a new platform Malaw, with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to deliver new services to customers across ECOWAS. Moussa Wade, Head of the Centre of Excellence, Orange Sonatel, tells Intelligent CIO Africa […]