by Dianne Bayley | Dec 3, 2019 | Innovation
Usually, technology and driving shouldn’t be mixed, notes Mark Chertkow, Managing Director at Graphic Image Technologies. Devices like mobile phones, GPS navigators – and even the radio – can take a drivers’ eyes off the road, which has the potential to be...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 3, 2019 | Innovation
The general holiday season is around the corner, a time when customers flock to retail outlets and clock up a lot of sales, writes Chris de Bruyn, Operations Director at Gabsten Technologies. Such large crowds are good news for retailers, but they also create...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
On 3 December 2019, Nokia announced that it has been selected by Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid. Fingrid will use the network to operate 120...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 3, 2019 | Security and Legal
This time of the year is a boom time for cybercriminals. Consumers are shopping and transacting more. Shopping websites experience higher traffic volumes and process more payments than usual. Companies’ security teams can often be understaffed or unprepared for the...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2019 | Sustainability
Storage and networking vendors see software defined everything (SDx) as the next evolution of linking the business to the data centre, says Joshua Grunewald, Cloud Hosting Manager at Saicom. Today, it is less about the hardware and more on how it can be ‘cloudified’...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 1, 2019 | Innovation
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is already having a hugely disruptive effect on all aspects of our lives but will arguably have the most profound impact on how we work, where we work from and the type of work we do. 4IR is characterised by the rising...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2019 | Sustainability
Businesses that currently rely solely on paid-for Google search to attract consumers to their offerings should also be incorporating organic search as part of their digital strategies if they want to capture an even bigger slice of sales this festive season, says...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2019 | Sustainability
Events that accelerate the generation of data are often viewed in isolation, but the reality is that they are all part of the same evolution, writes Eran Brown, CTO for EMEA at INFINIDAT. From databases to collaboration, Business Intelligence (BI) to virtualisation,...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 29, 2019 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Darth Kitchens, a dark kitchen operation, has launched a 400sqm purpose-built state of the art facility in Cape Town and secured seed capital in excess of R5-million to date with a further R30-million planned to rapidly scale the model over the next few years. Also...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 27, 2019 | Innovation
Tiyani Nghonyama, chief operating office of Geekulcha, has been named as the IT Personality of the Year by the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA). Alexander Forbes Group CIO Sandra La Bella has won the award for Visionary CIO for...
