Use your vote to improve the channel

ICT resellers are urged to use the power of their vote in the 2014 Channelwise Awards to ensure they get the best possible products and services from their vendors and distributors. Online voting for SME and Consumer resellers in the 2014 Channelwise Awards is now...

DFA rolls out fibre to KZN

DFA recently launched its Umhlanga Tachyon Node, in La Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal. The hosting facility will act as an aggregation point for Internet service providers (ISPs) to provide businesses in the area with a cost-effective way to easily access high-speed broadband...

EMEA storage market up, but only just

Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) was up 0,4% year-over-year with around 7-million units shipped in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14), according...

2014 in review

2014 was a relatively quiet year in IT, but there were some news stories that herald the start of game-changing trends. JJ Milner, chief cloud architect and founder of Global Micro offers his roundup of the news stories that made waves this year. Big hack horror One...

Datatec turns 20, still on the acquisition trail

Datatec today celebrated the 20th anniversary of its listing on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), and announced its latest intended acquisition of German services and solution provider Inforsacom. Datatec was set up in South Africa 29 years ago. It first...

Doodle imagines poaching-free SA

A Grade 8 learner has won the South African Doodle for Google competition with a nature-themed doodle envisioning a country free from poaching. The competition invited school children across the country to create a Google Doodle depicting the “South Africa of Their...