Cost, innovation, agility drive cloud

Global buyers of cloud applications cite cost, innovation and agility as reasons for adoption, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In May and June 2014, Gartner conducted a survey across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations’ adoption and...

Solid growth for WLAN market in Q3

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7,4% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...

Is your car in danger of being hacked?

So far, there have been no known cases of cars being hacked, but hackers on behalf of the US military recently proved that it is indeed possible. Jacques Louw, senior information security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, comments: “With regards to the attacks that have...

CIOs must adapt or die

Given the connectedness of the world today, CIOs are under increased pressure to evolve as business needs change faster than before. In many respects, this has resulted in them becoming the lynchpins of the modern organisation. Jessie Rudd, BI consultant at PBT Group,...

IT predictions for 2015

The data centre will continue to evolve in 2015, with increased functionality but also more threats. Riverbed’s Brent Lees offers his five prediction for the coming year: * Network functions virtualisation takes off, even without SDN. 2015 will see continued...

Orlando Pirates kids score

School kids attending the Orlando Pirates Learning Centre, supported by Acer for Education, have seen significant improvements in their marks for the critical subjects of maths and English. The centre celebrated its second birthday yesterday, with news that more...