VMware buys Desktone
By Kathy Gibson in Barcelona – VMware this morning announced that it has acquired Desktone, a desktop as a service manufacturer. “Desktone is a company, like VMware, that is an innovator and a pioneer in cloud computing on the desktop,” says Sanjay Poonen,...Rural area gets reliable signal
Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim has launched the Freevision satellite service to the GaMphahlele in Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality in Limpopo, an area that has intermittent broadcasting signal. “As the government, we are determined to ensure that we bring...IDC ranks data protection vendors
CommVault, EMC, and Symantec are leaders in the European data protection and recovery software market, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) vendor assessment and market analysis study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the data...Nokia, T2T set out to map Africa
Nokia is partnering with the Tsitsikamma to Tataouine Expedition (T2T) to build HERE map content for the African continent. The expedition, which headed off from Tsitsikamma in South Africa on 5 October, sees three intrepid explorers travel across 24 countries in...Records management site goes up in flames
The board of directors of Metrofile advises that a fire occurred at one of the Metrofile Records Management KwaZulu-Natal facilities on Friday evening, 11 October 2013. The fire was contained by the following day and fortunately no one was injured. The company has...