Kabelo Makwane

Partnerships on the rise as cybercrime spikes in Africa

Research shows that nearly three quarters of South Africa’s top 100 corporates are investing more in cybersecurity than the industry average.
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2:30
Aug 26, 2021

Vodacom, XLink tap into AWS capability to deliver new services platform for Africa

Vodacom subsidiary, XLink says it connects Africa's banks with cloud-powered, secure transactional services and visibility.
3:20
Jun 28, 2021

Vodacom Business partners Digital Parks Africa to deepen datacentre support

The datacentre has become the backbone of enterprise IT, the companies claim.
3:50
Jun 7, 2021

Harnessing data-driven insights for positive societal change

The potential to create positive solutions for some of our most pressing challenges is even greater if this industry-mined data can be shared with others says Kabelo Makwane, Managing Executive for Cloud, Hosting & Security at Vodacom Business.
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Jul 9, 2020

Vodacom, Cloudflare join forces to protect firms from DDoS

The telco teams up with Web security company Cloudflare to offer distributed denial of service protection services.
2:30
Feb 4, 2020

Africa gets to grip with cloud strategies in 2020

Telcos link with hyperscalers to accelerate cloud adoption, according to GlobalData research.
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Dec 5, 2019

African businesses trust their IT strategies to the cloud

Vodacom's Kabelo Makwane delves into the dynamics of the continent's evolving cloud and security market segment.
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Tech users holding enterprises more accountable

Accenture's Technology Vision 2018 finds a trend of growing expectations for responsibility from tech based products and services.
3:10
Jul 7, 2017

Value of moving to the cloud not always a certainty

Expert believes the costs of cloud computing for African enterprises means that migrating requires careful planning.
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Sep 4, 2015

MainOne meets Microsoft in the cloud

Nigerian telco's data centre subsidiary partners with Microsoft on cloud computing.
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Mar 18, 2014

South African leading Microsoft Nigeria during key changeover

Kabelo Makwane takes country manager post as Nigerian business becomes a standalone unit.
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Mar 17, 2014

South African hired as Microsoft Nigeria country manager

Kabelo Makwane served as public sector director for the software giant in South Africa.