Times Media’s Vidi first-mover advantage to shake up South Africa’s pay-TV market
The biggest threat in the short term to Vidi is expected to come from Telkom if it launches its own VOD services by leveraging its ADSL infrastructure
Presenting the case for driverless vehicles
Though there is progress on the technological side—both on sensor hardware and Artificial Intelligence—user acceptance, security, liability issues, and regulation remain huge bottlenecks.
By 2016, almost half of wristworn devices will be smartwatches
Trend around the “quantified self” to drive adoption — but despite growing interest, numerous hurdles to overcome
Most senior and influential B2B buyers use online social networks in their purchase process
The gap between companies that use social networks for buying and selling and those that do not will widen, creating a significant disadvantage for companies that lag behind
Cisco leads as security appliance market grows again
Unified threat management (UTM) was the fastest-growing security appliance product category in 2Q14
Mobility, analytics will drive strong IT spending growth in South Africa financial sector
Strong investment in 3rd Platform technologies like Big Data analytics, cloud, and mobility to jump as CIOs accept transformative capabilities of these solutions on the way business is conducted.
One company’s doomsday cloud scenario is a lesson for all
The annihilation of cloud services company Codespaces should raise serious questions for any company that hosts some or all of its data in the cloud, says Warren Olivier, Veeam Regional Manager for Southern Africa. “The ability to work in the cloud gives us...
Protect data availability to comply with POPI
Protecting customers’ personal information against loss or damage is just as important for companies considering the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act as protecting it against theft and unauthorised access, says Jos Floor, Director of Corporate and IP Law...
Big data: 73% of corporates have invested – or plan to
Organisations don’t have a plan for what they’re going to do next. Picking everything isn’t a strategy. It indicates a fear of missing out on an opportunity yet to be defined. Also, there may be a certain amount of hubris at work. If organisations can ‘do big data’ on transactions and log data, they may assume they can also leverage more challenging data sources as easily
60% of family owned businesses struggle to find external finance to fund investment
A new KPMG International survey has found that 58% of family businesses are currently seeking external financing to fund their investment plans, but finding the right strategic investment partner can be challenging. While family businesses create more than 70% of...
First look of new MSN South Africa
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a first look of the new MSN in South Africa. “To make MSN relevant in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, we have gone back to basics and redesigned the platform with that in mind. The new MSN brings together the world’s best media sources...
Growth of cloud and data centres in SA fuels need for appropriate storage
Demanding applications such as on-line transaction processing, high-performance database, analytics applications, multi-tenant server applications and virtualised servers require both high performance and high reliability.
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