Social media enables purchasing decisions
Nearly three quarters of business-to-business (B2B) buyers and 84% of C-level/vice-president executives surveyed say they use social media to support purchase decisions. According to the findings of a recently-completed Social Buying Study from International Data...Active disaster recovery aids continuity
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – System downtime is an expensive business: it costs businesses millions of dollars every year, to the extent that about 10% of R&D in the ICT industry is spent on disaster recovery. Avneesh...DiData offers managed data centre services
Dimension Data is deploying globally standardised managed services for data centres. Built on the group’s Managed Services Automation Platform, the portfolio manages servers, storage and networks for on-premise, cloud and hybrid data centres. Earlier this year,...IT spend set for growth in MEA
IT spending by financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) – Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Turkey – is set for strong year-on-year growth of 10,8% in 2014. This is according to the latest insights from...Impressive annual results for EOH
EOH has announced that revenue for the year ended 31 July 2014 has increased by 42% to R7 220-million, and profit after tax is up by 49% to R492-million. EOH has a presence in 134 locations in South Africa, 29 African countries and the UK. The company employs over 8...