By Pramod Venkatesh, inq. Group CTO & Tunde Dada, inq. Group Head of IT — Our journey with Elastic began with a search for a single monitoring platform service for all kinds of applications and infrastructure across geographies and in the cloud. Like many other organisations who use Elastic, our story does not end there. Instead, it has evolved to support new use cases and…

The Changing Toolbox of a Modern Network Engineer By Raphael Maseko, inq. Digital Zambia In my early years as a Network Engineer, management of devices was serious business. One needed to know the command-line syntax to set up and manage devices such as routers and firewalls. Setting up Access lists…

By Andile Ngcaba, Duncan Pie & Pramod Venkatesh — The Context The last 25 years of Africa’s connectivity has been driven mainly by two industry forces (1) Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and (2) Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). ISPs have driven enterprise on one side while MNOs have driven consumers. The biggest challenge for both these providers for digital growth…

by Wasiu Olaleye — A lot of network engineers feel that SD-WAN/SDN’s advent would result in playing down their expertise as the traditional way of routing and forwarding packets through CLI (command-line interface) placed so much value on their expertise. …

I want to begin by greeting my colleagues in Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana & Mauritius. I’d like to also welcome my colleagues from sister organisations such as C-Squared, Seacom and many others who are in Liberia, Ghana, Uganda, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa. I would…