IBM: focus innovation for transformation

The innovations that will successfully transform South Africa will be those that are right for the conditions and needs in the country, because innovation simply for the sake of innovation does not help the world work better. This is according to Abe Thomas, IBM South...

New GM for MWeb Business

MWeb has appointed Debbie Pretorius as general manager (GM) of MWeb Business. Pretorius has worked in the Internet service provider (ISP) industry for the past 15 years. Most recently she headed up MWeb Business’ operational activities, and was responsible for...

SA to host supercomputer

South Africa is likely to be the home of the next record-breaking supercomputer, with Exabyte capacity and compute power in the Exaflops (floating point instructions per second) range. Dr Happy Sithole, from the Centre for High Performance Computing, says this new and...

Resellers: last chance to make your mark

Resellers are urged to make their voices heard in the fourth annual Channelwise Awards, by voting for their favourite vendors and resellers today. The survey closes tonight (23 October) at midnight, after which votes will be tallied to find out who will win the...

Bhat to take on VMware job

Ravi Bhat has been appointed at the new regional director for VMware, ending months of speculation about who will lead the local office of one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. Bhat’s most recent position was as director of the IBM Software Group at...

Dell de-listing could boost channel

Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – Founder Michael Dell may have succeeded in his buyout of Dell, but the de-listing of the company won’t see any deterioration in its commitment to, or strategy for, the channel it’s been nurturing for the past seven...