CIO East Africa - Business Technology Leadership

If your company is thinking of saving money by migrating to the cloud, don't forget to look to the long term return, a study suggests.
That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise.

Just 14 percent of QA apprentices last year were female

Teenage girls are being encouraged to apply for IT apprenticeships, to help bridge the gender gap in the industry.

Only 17 percent of the IT workforce is female, according to the latest figures from sector skills council e-skills UK.

For many years, as a continent that had managed to keep its electricity prices fairly low, African businesses did not place the same focus on energy consumption and efficiency as companies situated elsewhere in the world. Now, we're finding that local CIOs are having to work closer than ever before with facilities managers to better understand consumption and close the gap between facilities and business.

So says Jonathan Duncan, director for the Central and North East Africa region at APC by Schneider Electric, who believes that these two areas, which were seen as very much separate in the past, are now blending together.

"One area under scrutiny for improved energy efficiency is the data centre, which historically fell within the responsibility of the facilities manager," he explains. "Increasing power densities and rapid changes in IT technology, coupled with growing energy costs and uncertain long-term plans for capacity or density have flagged the data centre as an area of concern from a consumption perspective. Add a comment

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