Mangale set to leave Cisco SA

Mark Davison reports from Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City – Following the fanfare of flag-bearers, dancers and the obligatory drummers, Cisco South Africa MD Alpheus Mangale officially opened Cisco Connect 2014 at Sun City last night. But while Mangale spent the majority...

EMC debuts hybrid cloud

EMC has announced its hybrid cloud solution, an appliance the unites the public and private clouds to enable IT as a service (ITaaS) in as little as 28 days. EMC country manager Servaas Venter points out that, as IT organisations race to keep pace with the demands of...

Advanced Technologies debuts Oracle SuperCluster

AxizWorkgroup’s Advanced Technologies division has unveiled an Oracle SuperCluster at the vendor’s PartnerHub premises in Woodmead. Jacques Malherbe, managing executive of Advanced Technologies, says the multi-million rand SuperCluster marks a major investment by the...

iPhone popularity is waning

Although sales of Apple’s iPhone 6 notched up more than 10-million in sales in the first weekend of its launch, there are some pundits who believe it will, ultimately, not sell as well as the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. One such detractor is Christopher Riley, MD of...

China takes centre stage in November

The fifth annual China Sourcing Fair (CSF) Johannesburg is set to take place at the Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec from 13 to 15 November 2014. According to the Computer Manufacturing Market Research Report from IBISWorld (2013), China has become the computer...