Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 24 | Page 9

NEWS NeuroMem Technologies expands into Mauritius Intelligence Council comprising of the public, private sector and international experts which aims to foster the development of a new growth pole revolving around Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain technologies and Fintech. Neuromem is setting up a full programme of workshops and seminars for secondary level education through to workplace skills to enable to support the country’s plans. From left: Dr Kaviraj Sharma SUKON, Director General, Prof Pierre Brunswick and Subhashini Gopee, Registrar (right) from Open University N euroMem Technologies, a General Vision company, has expanded and established a presence in Mauritius to support the ecosystem leveraging the growing importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the country. The announcement was made by CEO, Professor Pierre Brunswick, during a recent trip to Mauritius where, with the support of Economic Development Board (EDB), he met with key senior advisors from the various ministries and the business community in the country. The move comes in support of the vision outlined by the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth in his budget speech for 2018/2019 where he said the government intends to set up a Mauritius Artificial Mauritius’ EDB organised a three-day programme constituting of meetings with senior advisors from the PM’s office, Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation, Ministry of Education, Public Universities in Mauritius, the Mauritius Research Council and the Human Resource Development Board. During the event, Prof Brunswick also hosted a 90-minute open workshop within the Mauritius Open University discussing emerging neuromorphic technology in AI. ///////////////// Z Services and McAfee to transform cloud-based security offering Z Services, an innovative cloud-based cybersecurity solutions provider in the MENA region and McAfee, the device-to- cloud cybersecurity company, will bring the first in-country cloud security solution to organisations across the Middle East and North Africa. The solution, powered by McAfee’s MVISION Cloud, will be available through Z Services’ in-country multi-tenant cloud security infrastructure. With the addition of this solution, Z Services will extend its cloud-based customer offering and enhance its consistent data protection and threat prevention capabilities across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS platforms such as Office 365, Box, Dropbox, AWS and Microsoft Azure. The in-country solution also enables customers to remain compliant with regulations around data storage. Z Services President Nidal Taha said: “Operating within an environment of constant security threats, organisations in the MENA region need a solution that assures security across multiple cloud applications and protects data. Cloud Security provides organisations with better visibility of Shadow IT cloud services, monitoring of cloud application usage, prevention of cloud data leakage and protection against diverse threats. “The addition of the McAfee’s MVISION Cloud to our cloud-based offering demonstrates our commitment to innovate with customer needs in mind and offer newer layers of security that regional businesses may not even have considered yet.” www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 9