Vodacom Business adds data centre capacity
Vodacom Business is opening an energy-efficient data centre in Midrand to further its new cloud strategy. The facility is designed to meet ever-increasing demand for hosted services across the country. As Vodacom Business’s eighth data centre in South Africa, the...Chinese dominate in smartphones
The worldwide smartphone market grew 23,1% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), establishing a new single quarter record of 295,3-million shipments. This is according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...SAMRAS receives multi-million rand upgrade
Bytes Universal Systems and Altron TMT have committed to a technology refresh of its South African Municipal Resource Administration System (SAMRAS) enterprise resource planning system.Although the investment amount was not revealed, Brian Brougham-Cook, GM: SAMRAS at...Global recognition for local entrepreneur
Luvuyo Rani, the founder and MD of Silulo Ulutho Technologies, has been nominated for The Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) programme. The programme serves to formally recognise young people who excel in their chosen fields and demonstrate the best...World Cup a focus for online threats
The recent World Cup has lead to a peak in malware activity registered in Brazil. Kaspersky Lab blocked 87 776 attempts to launch malicious programs in the country, which is four times higher than second-place Russia. The FIFA World Cup officially kicked off on the 12...