Telkom to buy out BCX

Telkom is to make a cash offer to buy out all of Business Connexion’s (BCX’s) shares. The value of the deal will be about R2,7-billion. As one of the largest ICT and cloud service providers on the JSE, BCX has offices in the UK and Dubai as well as in South Africa. It...

Tech chaotic for 90% of firms

Fewer than 10% of organisations say their existing IT infrastructure is fully prepared to address the proliferation of mobile devices, social media, data analytics and cloud computing. This is according to preliminary findings from an IBM study, IT Infrastructure...

It’s official: Spies to join AxizWorkgroup

Pierre Spies will be assuming the role of CEO of AxizWorkgroup, reporting directly to group head of distribution, Henry Ferreira. Pinnacle Holdings CEO Arnold Fourie comments: “As the former CEO of Tarsus and executive director of MB Technologies, Pierre brings with...

The top telco brands are …

Verizon has been named as the world’s most valuable telecommunications brand, followed by AT&T, China Mobile, T and Vodafone. The Brand Finance Telecoms Report is an annual study conducted by brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance. The world’s...

DiData goes live with new cloud centres

Dimension Data’s three new global cloud data centres are set to go live, in order to address the on-going demand for enterprise-class cloud services in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and next month in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The addition of the new Managed Cloud...

Seacom adds African connectivity

Seacom is working with global network provider Level 3 Communications to deploy its content delivery network (CDN) nodes into data centres connecting to the Seacom Pan-African IP/MPLS network. Using these CDN nodes, Level 3 will enable rich, high-quality content to be...