by Dianne Bayley | Apr 5, 2017 | Features, Sustainability
Eskom’s announcement in July 2016 that it would not sign any independent power producers onto the South African power grid threw a booming renewables sector into disarray. JCRA, a leading financial risk consultancy, have today released a paper in partnership with the...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security because laws and behaviours in the US may be aimed at curtailing abuses pertaining to data collection about individuals. Edward Snowden, the world’s best-known whistle-blower,...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover, March 2017 – The increasing “cloudification” of the IT environment continues with Huawei’s introduction today of an all-cloud network architecture, plus cloud-based SDN-WAN. The All-Cloud Network for enterprise spans the...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Innovation
Security, ecosystem-based services and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to offer personalised experience will be among the five main trends that will dominate the development of smart home products in 2017, IDC forecasts. Energy efficiency and entertainment...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Features, Innovation
By Johan Scheepers, Commvault Systems Engineering Director for MESAT When it comes to big data, South Africa is keeping up with the rest of the world, however. One of the largest concerns for many South African CIOs is the management of this data. Rising technologies,...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Features, ITSM and Application Development
By Brendan Mc Aravey, Country Manager at Citrix South Africa South African businesses increasingly depend on connectivity. This is because tech-savvy customers require businesses and service providers that meet their always-on needs. For example, retail outlets are...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 29, 2017 | Workplace 2020
By Mark Beets, GM: Business Development, Entelect I built an oscilloscope the other day. I don’t need one and I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it, but the point is that I built it and, in doing so, I learnt a few things, like how to solve the technical problem...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 15, 2017 | Features, ITSM and Application Development
The digital business landscape is driven by data. However, amid the risk of information overload, decision-makers need to embrace data analytics to get the competitive edge they need. Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, examines how this is becoming...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 15, 2017 | Features, Innovation
Opinion Piece by Amit Kaundinya, Practice Manager – Digital, BPM and Integration, Wipro Limited and Gavin Holme, Business Head, Africa, Wipro Limited The pace of innovation is speeding up and new technologies – or new ways to use them – are emerging daily, disrupting...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 15, 2017 | Features, Security and Legal
Opinion Piece by Saurabh Kumar, Managing Director at In2IT Technologies The era of the Internet of Things (IoT) is here, bringing with it a host of ‘futuristic’ functionality, from fully smart buildings which can be monitored and controlled through a single handheld...
