SAP to resell Adobe in the cloud

SAP and Adobe have announced a joint venture that will see SAP reselling Adobe Marketing Cloud. SAP and Adobe will invest joint development resources for additional product integration and marketing funds for joint co-marketing activities. Retail, consumer packaged...

Mozambique helps to lift Metrofile

Strong economic growth in Mozambique has contributed to a significant business uptake at Metrofile Records Management Mozambique. The Mozambican economy grew by 6,5% in the first six months of 2013, compared to the same period last year, with the strongest growth of...

Governance, infrastructure needed in Africa

Good governance and access to infrastructure are two drivers that will help Africa’s economy to grow, according to delegates at the Africa Finance Corporation’s inaugural Summit held yesterday in Lagos. Jim O’Neill, creator of the BRICs and MINT acronyms, economist...

SA comes under malware attack

South African businesses face unprecedented levels of cyber-attacks, as global security vulnerabilities and threats against systems, applications and personal networks have reached their highest-ever recorded level. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report,...

IBM leverages big data to fight TB

IBM and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) have announced plans to research new treatment approaches to fight tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. IBM’s big data analytics technologies will be put to work on bacterial genetics and...

Operation Windigo infects Unix servers

A widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25 000 Unix servers worldwide has been uncovered by security researchers at Eset, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other agencies. The attack,...