Telecoms faces range of new challenges

“Big data monetisation” is the fastest growing challenge facing the telecommunications industry, followed by churn, customer experience and the need to reduce fraud. These are the findings of an international survey by Experian, conducted among 80 senior executives in...

SA security appliance market set for growth

The value of the South African security appliances market grew 3,6% year-on-year in Q2 2013 to reach $11,97-million in revenue, according to the EMEA Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker published by international marketing and research agency IDC. The Tracker further...

Global economic recovery on the cards

The global economy is possibly poised for an extended recovery period, with the US showing the way and the Eurozone still having quite a way to go. This is according to Old Mutual Equities Strategist, Graham Bell, speaking at the Old Mutual Investment Group Q3...

Social media, cloud change security needs

The Nexus of Forces is transforming the approach towards information security as new requirements are brought about by social, mobile, cloud and information, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that traditional security models will be strained to the point that, by...

Governments commit to open partnering

More than 1 000 people, representing countries with populations of 1,94-billion, and hundreds of civil society and multilateral organisations, are coming together in London for the Open Government Partnerships’ (OGP) Summit today and tomorrow (31 October and 1...

IS Ignite launches cloud service for SMEs

Internet Solutions (IS) Ignite has launched a public cloud solution targeted at the South African SME market. Cloud Server is affordable and flexible enough for businesses in the SME market segment, and delivers enterprise-level reliability, scalability and uptime,...