While renewable energy sources including solar and wind , is the way forward for Africa , Heman Kassan from Technodyn International raises the fundamental weakness of transmission and utility grids across Africa . Bringing in software defined and intelligent grids along with renewable energy sources may finally solve Africa ’ s endless energy shortages .

Internet Service Provider , VOX has selected A10 Thunder CGN to manage its challenge of CGNAT and utilisation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses . Turn the pages to read more on these fascinating use cases inside Africa .

Moving forward , in our well-thumbed Editor ’ s Question section , we look at what Fortinet , ManageEngine , Palo Alto Networks , Cloud Box executives have to say on the CIO trade-off gameplan on managing IT spending .

All of this and our range of thought leadership blogs , news , and trends in the pages ahead . Happy reading .

And Daniel Thenga from Comstor Southern Africa dwells into the need to relook at data structures and data storage as the opportunity of using AI , ML , DL becomes increasingly cost effective . Organisations are now taking the option of software-defined , scale-out storage infrastructures that support hybrid cloud integration more seriously .

Arun Shankar Managing Editor

In our lead feature this month we look at how Internet Service Providers are coping with shortage of IPv4 addresses as increasingly intelligent devices and sensors on the Internet are always on . South African

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