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We are glad to announce that Spirula Systems joined The Egyptian Information Telecommunications, Electronics & Software Alliance (EITESAL), which has over 300 companies in Egypt working in the areas of: Electronics, Telecommunications, Software, Training, System Integration, Content, Consultancy, Outsourcing and Call Center Services. We have...

Yesterday,  Mushtarak  hosted  a  panel  discussion  on  the  Free  and  Open  Source  Software (FOSS) movement  in Egypt,  and  its  National Strategy  for  FOSS  adoption.  The Strategy  was driven by a large group of FOSS advocates. The panel consisted of Ahmed Mekkawy, Spirula’s CEO, among notable...

Spirula has doubled the size of its team compared to previous years, accompanied by a capital increase and an increase in operations. This increase in size doubles our capacity, allowing us to take up more opportunities and target more markets. It is an advancement step for...

On September 20, 2014, the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in Egypt has celebrated the Software Freedom Day. The event took place in Mushtarak, where different FOSS advocates discussed topics related to technologies and strategies. Spirula Systems participated with a small talk, where Ahmed...

Since January 2011, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocates have been urging the Egyptian government to shift from proprietary software towards FOSS, and the argument was mostly financial, based on saving the costs of acquiring licenses. Nevertheless, the argument later included the capabilities that...

As we are always keen to provide our valued clients with top notch technologies, Spirula Systems started offering DevOps automation with ansible. By using ansible, we are able to provide configurations management, mass­controlling clusters, automated provisioning for replicable environments, among other use cases. Combined with...

For the second year in a row, Spirula Systems took part in the annual academic conference “ICT in Our Lives” in Alexandria University, as part of our commitment to contribute to academia and link it to the industry. The conference is organized by the Information...

Ahmed Mekkawy, CEO, was a keynote speaker in the Mozilla Egypt conference “Mozilla Power ‘13” hosted by The British University in Egypt during 20-21 December 2013. According to the organizers, Mozilla Power is “...

Ahmed Mekkawy, Spirula Systems’ CEO, made a TV appearance on ONTV in the program “Telt El Talata”. In the 40-minutes episode, Mekkawy discussed many aspects of data privacy and surveillance, including government’s censorship, Internet filtering, data protection and censorship bypassing tools. You can watch the...