SA cloud set to reach $2,8bn

The value of the combined IS outsourcing, managed services and hosted services market in South Africa is expected to increase 10,9% year-on-year in 2014 to total $2,8-billion, according to the latest insights from global IT market intelligence firm International Data...

Telkom challenges Vodacom, MTN on MTR

Telkom’s CEO Sipho Maseko has challenged MTN and Vodacom to consider the effect their court application to relook at mobile termination rates (MTR) could have on the future of South Africa. In an open letter to MTN SA’s CEO Zunaid Bulbulia and Vodacom’s CEO Shameek...

Companies set for information crisis

The rise of big data, social networking and mobile interactions, coupled with an accelerating increase in the amount of structured and unstructured information enabled by cloud-based technologies, is forcing organisations to focus on the enterprise information that is...

Tablets drive smart connected device sales

The smart connected device (SCD) market continued to post strong growth in 4Q13, with combined shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones reaching nearly 70-million units in the fourth quarter, totalling nearly 230-million units for the year 2013 and posting a 9,7%...

Microsoft, Adobe, HP call for patent reform

Microsoft has joined the call to scrap patents that are overly broad. It has been joined by Adobe and HP in its application. Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel and corporate vice-president: legal and corporate affairs at Microsoft, says the company has filed an...

Integr8 makes it into global MSP list again

South African ICT managed services provider (MSP) Integr8 has again been listed amongst the top 50 MSPs globally. According to this year’s Global MSPMentor 501 Edition, Integr8 is the only South African based company to be ranked in the top 50 MSPs globally, out the...