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Vertiv has announced four new or expanding manufacturing facilities in the Americas, growing the company’s production capacity for infrastructure solutions, power management, and integrated cabinets. As data centre operators focus on scaling quickly and time to first token speed, Vertiv is uniquely positioned to help meet the rapidly evolving infrastructure and services requirements for AI factories, through its focus on innovation and manufacturing footprint.  “Vertiv sees AI as a long-term, secular trend, and we are accelerating our capacity expansions to anticipate the continued growth in demand,” said Vertiv CEO Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi. “Today’s announcement represents the most recent steps in…

Sophos has released findings from a global, vendor-agnostic study (based on responses from 5,000 organizations across 17 countries), examining one of cybersecurity’s most urgent and overlooked necessities: trust. The Cybersecurity Trust Reality 2026 report is one of the most comprehensive studies of trust in cybersecurity and the impact on operational risk and board-level decision making. It reveals a critical challenge facing CISOs: Trust in cybersecurity vendors is fragile, difficult to measure, and increasingly shaping risk posture at both operational and board levels. At a time of relentless cyber threats, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and accelerating AI adoption, trust has become a…

The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) and Visa, a global leader in digital payments, have rolled out a joint travel campaign with Kenya Airways (KQ), that will see travelers enjoy discounts on their travels from April to September 2026, starting with the Easter period. Under the campaign, travelers using a Visa card will receive 5% savings on local Kenya Airways flights and up to 8% savings on inbound international flights. To avail of these discounts, customers are required to use the promo codeVISAKQ at the time of booking and pay with their Visa card. Speaking during the launch of the campaign, the…

Boldyn Networks, one of the largest and most established neutral host providers in the world, has significantly transformed its project management and financial control capabilities across the UK and Ireland since adopting PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s scalable, cloud-based portfolio and project management solutionin 2014. What began as a workflow tool has become a central platform for project management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and executive decision-making, supporting Boldyn through periods of rapid growth, acquisition and organisational integration. Formerly known as BAI Communications, the organisation has expanded through several mergers and acquisitions, including the 2021 acquisition of Vilicom, a supplier of engineering solutions to the communications…

By Allan Juma, Lead Cyber Security Engineer at ESET Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. Kenya has built a reputation across the continent and the world as a leader in the digital economy. M-PESA not only changed how money moves in this country, it has served as a blueprint for other regions. Today, the dynamic fintech ecosystem and a growing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) have built on this legacy, demonstrating how Kenya leverages technology to drive…

Hybrid cloud security isn’t just getting harder – it’s reaching a breaking point. While security has always been a race without a finish line, Red Hat’s 2026 State of Cloud-Native Security Report reveals that many organizations are now trapped in a cycle of controlled chaos. To break free, teams must move beyond reactive firefighting and anchor their strategy in the foundational security practices and policies that turn security from a bottleneck into a baseline. The reality of cloud-native incidents The report establishes a sobering baseline: security incidents are now a near-universal experience. 97% of organizations reported at least 1 cloud-native security incident in the past year.…

Safaricom has announced that Decode 4.0, its annual engineering summit, will take place from March 31 to April 2, 2026, in Nairobi. The event is expected to bring together developers, engineers, startups, students and industry leaders shaping the next phase of the country’s digital economy. Now in its fourth edition, Decode 4.0 continues to evolve beyond a traditional tech conference into a platform for conversations around infrastructure, platforms and the systems powering modern digital services. This year’s theme is “Made of Kenya” and signals a shift toward highlighting locally built solutions and the growing role of Kenyan talent in shaping…

Cloud computing has fundamentally reshaped how organisations deploy, manage and scale IT infrastructure, replacing rigid, capital-intensive systems with flexible, on-demand services that can expand or contract as business needs evolve. Yet this flexibility has also introduced a new and often underestimated challenge: cost control.  As cloud adoption accelerates, many organisations find themselves paying for resources they don’t use, including oversized instances, idle virtual machines and underutilised storage. Gert Haasbroek, Senior Cloud Architect at leading hybrid ICT systems integrator and digital transformation partner, Datacentrix, notes that effective cloud cost management has become a critical discipline that requires continuous observability, resource optimisation and strategic…

By Lindelani Ramukumba, Chief Information Officer and Interim Chief Digital Officer of Absa Business Banking  Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative artificial intelligence were barely on the public radar, yet the technology has already evolved into its next iteration: agentic AI, a new breed of systems that are semi- or fully autonomous and able to reason and act on their own. And adoption has skyrocketed, particularly…

By Maria Bracho, Chief Technology Officer, Industries, Red Hat  Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. As businesses gather at KubeCon EU 2026, the conversation has shifted from simply adopting the latest technology to driving tangible business outcomes. In my experience working with organizations looking to leapfrog technical debt, the goal is always a practical, scalable solution. Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 provides a unified foundation that helps accelerate AI innovation and simplify infrastructure modernization. OpenShift 4.21 acts as…