Integrity tops for SA executives

Dispelling the perception that South African executives are a “happy-go-lucky bunch”, Grant Thornton’s latest report on business leadership trends reveals that humour and modesty are considered by senior management to be the least important for good leadership. The...

IBM announces new mainframe offerings

IBM yesterday announced new offerings for System z that will provide clients with a platform for the rapid development and deployment of mobile applications, and the complete integration of these with their core business processes, applications and data. The...

IBM takes the mainframe into the cloud

As it celebrates 50 years since its first mainframe launch, IBM has announced a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for the platform which will help clients and service providers to reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted cloud services with...

Seacom partners with Akamai on cloud

Seacom has announced a partnership with Akamai Technologies, deploying Akamai content clusters and caching nodes on the Seacom pan-African IP network footprint. The nodes will accelerate and optimise HTTP content, rich media, downloadable files, video, music, software...

Infobip debuts end-to-end messaging in SA

Global provider of mobile messaging and payment provider Infobip has launched what it believes to be the first ever end-to-end business messaging solution in South Africa. Infobip claims to be the only provider to enable companies – banks, brands, OTTs, social...

Enterprise hardware sees MEA growth

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market – comprising servers and external storage – remains in a passive state, according to the latest figures released today by International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing its EMEA Quarterly...