Futurewave BusinessIT February 2012
Cloud computing goes mainstream, learn more about the upcoming trends in computing for 2012, and everything you need to know for making informed mobile purchasing decisions.
This is not your father’s chamber
While international investors are searching for ways to get involved in more lucrative developing countries, local business is missing out. A collaborative technology offering is driving renewed interest in chambers of commerce as they re-invent themselves and their...
Teraco – Africa’s Switzerland of data centres
With sights firmly set on opening up sub-Saharan Africa’s telecoms market, Teraco – Africa’s leading vendor neutral colocation data centre operator and Internet exchange point (IXP) – is growing like Topsy
Data centres: when local is not so lekker
The local hosting arena is
beleaguered by a lack of skills,
outdated thinking, and antiquated
platforms and pricing models.
And while Icasa jumps from pillar to
post, even POPI – the key legislation
underpinning hosting – is pretty much
pie-in-the sky, says Louis Jardim, Turrito
Networks’ commercial director and cofounder.
Eskom’s torpid turmoils also strike
directly at the heart of going local. “While
more and more of our customers want to
migrate their services into data centres,
power is becoming a major pricing
constraint,” he says
Cisco, DST sign SKA MoU
Cisco and South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) Sign MoU for Investment Programme in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project
Green is the new black: leave the lights on
South African businesses often feel frustrated: they have to bear the brunt of electricity outages and ongoing load shedding, but are powerless to do anything to help alleviate the crisis. It’s true that we can’t get involved in building new power stations or wind...
African technology predictions for 2015
Technology is pretty universal: generally speaking, the same products and components are available in every country of the world. What’s different from region to region and country to country is the way that technology is put to use. IDC recently presented its...
Supertaskers and a work/life balance
The Citrix Work Life Balance Index paints a picture of lengthy commutes, inflexible working hours and job roles that are demanding - and require frequent overtime. The findings of the study, conducted by FreedThinkers to examine the working lives of 451 South African...
How to use POPI as a competitive differentiator
The recently-enacted Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, which sets conditions for how organisations can process information, has caused significant upheaval in the South African business environment. Companies are either panicking about how to comply or...
Make 2015 the year for becoming resilient
As one of the goals for the New Year, companies should take stock of how resilient they are, and take steps to improve their ability to prevent disasters, and to recover should one occur. “As part of their business continuity management, companies assess the risks...
Going over the top
Mobile operators haven’t fully understood or unlocked the value of media and content in their networks
The hybrid balancing act
Businesses need to get to grips with the hybrid cloud as compliance demands increase. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg, senior systems engineering manager at VMware Southern Africa There’s little doubt that the demands on IT are more intense than ever. The proliferation of...
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