Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 10

NEWS Rack Centre achieves business continuity management certification ZTE releases 5G Network Intelligence whitepaper Z TE South Africa has announced that ZTE Corporation – a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet – has released its 5G Network Intelligence whitepaper. Featuring ZTE’s leading technologies in the 5G arena and in-depth insights on telecoms development, the whitepaper aims to address the internal and external challenges that the telecom networks will be confronted with in the 5G era. Rack Centre has achieved the Business Continuity Management Certification, ISO 22301:2012 R ack Centre, Africa’s premium colocation data centre, has achieved the Business Continuity Management Certification, ISO 22301:2012. Awarded by the globally recognised British Standard Institute, BSI, the certification is an attestation that Rack Centre has evolved a robust and holistic system for business continuity management. The ISO 22301:2012 is designed to protect a business from threats to business continuity and proactively put plans in place ahead of time to prevent such threats impacting on the smooth running of that business or to keep the business running during crises and improve recovery time. Theuns Kotzé, Managing Director BSI Middle East and Africa said: “In 10 INTELLIGENTCIO today’s volatile world, understanding what it takes to ensure the survival and prosperity of an organisation can be more challenging than ever. By achieving ISO 22301:2012 Certification for Business Continuity Management, Rack Centre demonstrates its commitment to improve information resilience and minimise the operational impact of disruptive incidents. On behalf of BSI, I would like to congratulate Rack Centre for achieving ISO 22301:2012 certification and for your ongoing commitment to continual improvement.” Delighted in securing such a coveted certification, Ayotunde Coker, Managing Director, Rack Centre, said this was a key milestone for Rack Centre and underpins its commitment to excellence and business continuity. The whitepaper focuses on ZTE’s 5G network intelligence research and achievements and aims to promote the deep integration of AI technology and the telecoms field, thereby expecting to address the trend of combining artificial intelligence technology with the telecoms network. Such integration will accelerate the efficiency of 5G network operation and maintenance, the ecological co-construction of the industry in the era of intelligent interconnection and the continued growth of the digital social economy as well. In terms of the 5G intelligent construction, ZTE proposes a cloud-based, service-based 5G infrastructure to realise intelligent ubiquitous empowerment. In accordance with the layered introduction and on- demand deployment, the intelligent engine, the lightweight engine and the real-time engine can be deployed flexibly to different levels of training and reasoning requirements. The AI algorithm model and various levels of intelligent engines can be deployed based on different hardware computing environments in 5G networks. www.intelligentcio.com