by Allan Davison | Mar 26, 2015 | Features
Cisco and South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) Sign MoU for Investment Programme in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project Cisco announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Africa’s Department of Science and...
by Allan Davison | Feb 23, 2015 | Sustainability
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...
by Allan Davison | Feb 23, 2015 | Features
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...
by Allan Davison | Feb 20, 2015 | Features
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...
by Allan Davison | Feb 19, 2015 | Features
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...
by Allan Davison | Jan 15, 2015 | Features
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...
by Allan Davison | Dec 14, 2014 | Features
Telecommunications companies need to unlock the value in over-the-top services By Kathy Gibson By hesitating to provide over-the-top services, mobile telecommunications operators in Africa could be missing a valuable business opportunity. Pierre Cloete, head of TV,...
by Allan Davison | Dec 12, 2014 | Innovation
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...
by admin | Dec 12, 2014 | Features
by Allan Davison | Dec 9, 2014 | Innovation
Bernard Kur, head of product at Global Micro Solutions, looks at the opportunities available to smaller businesses when it comes to the cloud Having a cloud solution offers many benefits to business – scalability, reduced costs of software licenses, hardware and...
