Author: ITPulse

Deploying updates and new features quickly and efficiently is crucial to surviving in the rapidly moving tech world. At the heart of DevOps lies automation, and few individuals exemplify the brilliance of this approach more than Kolade Odusanya, a brilliant Cloud and DevOps engineer. Understanding DevOps Automation: DevOps, short for Development and Operations, is a set of practices that aims to shorten the development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. Automation is a critical component of DevOps, and it involves using tools and scripts to automate manual and repetitive tasks. DevOps aims to bridge the gap between…

With 2022 just a few months away, the payments industry in Fast-Growing and Emerging markets are already showing the first signs of potential three key trends for the next year. 2021 has seen an immense ongoing acceleration and development of the payments industry, giving a strong overall boost to global e-commerce—it is predicted that e-commerce sales worldwide will reach $4.9 trillion by the end of this year. While the popularity of payments trends like Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), projected to pass $100 billion in the U.S. alone, is expected to dominate the Western markets in the upcoming year, Fast-Growing…

Effective cross-generational communication with customers requires an excellent omnichannel strategy and chat is fast becoming the cornerstone for brands around the globe. But for many Nigerian organizations, chat channels still carry a degree of security hesitancy from consumers that will need to be overcome if they hope to reap the full rewards of chat commerce. In a global multi-industry survey of 405 companies, Aberdeen Research in partnership with Clickatell, found that at least two-thirds of firms use chat and that those that use chat in commerce achieve superior financial results while delivering a better customer experience. This included a 75%…

With 51 percent of parents in Nigeria struggling to follow the rules they set for their own children online, which has in turn created parent dilemma, Kaspersky has recommended three ways that children can spend their time securely. These three tips were pulled out from a new global survey, commissioned by Kaspersky, which explores the role of healthy digital habits in the family, as well as the effect of parents’ behaviour on children and vice versa.  Here are the tips: Surf and learn together. See where children spend their time online and explore how to best keep them safe. Consider downloading…

Africa is in the midst of a fintech transformation. Powered by venture capital and boosted by gains in mobile internet, hundreds of start-ups are connecting hundreds of millions of Africans to financial services. This opportunity stems partially from an inability over time of the big local financial players to scale payment products to the masses. Still, that does not render Africa’s traditional banks powerless in the face of disruption by start-ups. With the right mix of innovation and partnerships, Africa’s established commercial banks can gain an edge over VC backed ventures in the continent’s digital finance revolution. Massive market Funding…

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises across all industry sectors are having to rethink how they interact with customers and how to enhance the customer journey as they strive to attract new and retain existing customers. Mobile network operators (MNOs) are no exception, with subscribers demanding deeper and richer interactions with operators, but on their own terms and through their preferred channels. An enhanced customer experience (CX) is key to attracting and retaining subscribers as MNOs seek to perpetually grow their subscriber base. Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa, and…

Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company has revealed Nigeria recorded 16.7 million cyber attacks, representing 25 percent in the first half of 2021. Though the attacks for the measured period is less than the number of attacks recorded during the same period in similarly prominently targeted countries in the African region like South Africa (31.5 million) and Kenya (32.8 million), Kaspersky believes that this is an indicative of how significant the danger of cyberattacks has become to organisations and users in the connected world. While the total number of threats recorded in Nigeria. All three countries of Nigeria,…

The capacity of VIPNET, an Ivorian telecommunications operator that provides connectivity services and technology integration solutions through the national broadband coverage, has been upgraded from 155Mbps to 1Gbps by MainOne, connectivity and data centre solutions provider. “We are happy to support VIPNET in its efforts to meet its business objectives in Cote d’Ivoire. We remain strongly committed to providing innovative ICT infrastructure, solutions and services that drive the growth of businesses and we continue to push for the growth and development of the digital economy in the francophone region,” Maineone announced via its Country Manager for Ivory Coast, Etienne Kouadio…

The 2022 Threat Report, released by Sophos a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity has indicated that until global cryptocurrencies are better regulated, Cryptocurrency will continue to fuel cyber-crimes such as ransomware and malicious cryptomining. The in-depth report, which identifies Trends in Ransomware Services, Commodity Malware, Attack Tools, Cryptominers, and More That Are Impacting IT Security also shows how the gravitational force of ransomware black hole is pulling in other cyber-threats to form one massive, interconnected ransomware delivery system – with significant implications for IT security. The report, written by SophosLabs security researchers, Sophos Managed Threat Response threat hunters and rapid…

Anticipation is at fever-pitch levels for Konga Yakata, Nigeria’s biggest sale of the year which goes live on Thursday, November 11 and ends on Sunday, December 12, 2021. This year’s edition is set to take on an extra dimension as millions of shoppers await what has been described for the first time as Konga Yakata Plus. Konga Yakata is widely regarded as the biggest sale event in the annual shopping calendar in Nigeria. The 2021 edition of the sales fiesta is set to run across the various platforms in the Konga Group including Online, Offline or physical stores across Nigeria,…