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W
elcome to Issue 09 of
Intelligent CIO Africa. For this
issue’s cover story, we speak to
First Choice Global’s Managing Director,
Alan Osoro, about the company’s search
for a cloud provider when launching their
mobile remittance app, SawaPay. First
Choice Global had strict requirements
surrounding the chosen vendor’s security
and availability offerings and Dimension
Data was the only cloud provider able to
meet these criteria.
Africa is largely mobile-first – and in
some countries is even mobile-only.
Whilst this offers the continent huge
opportunity and access to services
that would otherwise be out of reach,
it also brings its own set of challenges;
particularly when those mobile devices
are introduced to the enterprise. In this
issue’s feature on the subject of mobile
malware, we look at the risks introduced
when employee’s personal devices
connect to the corporate network and
industry experts offer advice on how to
mitigate these risks.
To quote Bryan Hamman, Territory
Manager for sub-Saharan Africa at
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Arbor Networks, “Today, anyone with a
grievance and an Internet connection
can launch an attack.” This is the
daunting reality as Hamman looks back
at the last twenty years of distributed
denial of service attacks and forward
towards where we go from here to
protect ourselves.
Looking towards the future elsewhere,
for this month’s Editor Question we ask
industry experts what they foresee as
being the most disruptive technologies
to IT roles in 2018.
For this month’s Country Focus
feature we look at how the city of
Cairo is utilising technology solutions
to reform the quality of traffic. The
city has implemented SensorTec’s
surveillance systems and Infinet
Wireless’ high-speed broadband
connectivity and is seeing positive
results in the form of enhanced traffic
efficiency and security.
RESHAPING THE FINANCIAL
SERVICES LANDSCAPE IN
AFRICA WITH THE CLOUD
Alan Osoro, First Choice Global’s Managing Director, discusses how
Dimension Data was the only cloud supplier able to meet FCG’s
multiple requirements for security, availability and locality when
launching its mobile remittance app.
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importance of letting employees make
and learn from their own decisions.
I hope you enjoy the read. As ever, if
you would like to contribute to future
editions please contact me at emily@
lynchpinmedia.co.uk. You can view our
upcoming features on page 78.
To those of you attending GITEX
Technology Week, we look forward to
seeing you there.
Emily
Editor
To round off this issue we ‘Get to
Know’ Jonathan Somen, CEO at
Eldama Technologies. He discusses his
expectations for cloud growth and the
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