The importance of broadband

Over the next 15 years, broadband’s contribution to sustainable development will only increase in pace with its growth globally. This is according to new report from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, and joint initiative of the International...

Channel key for Oracle in Africa

Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – With triple digit growth over the last year on the continent, Africa is proving to be one of Oracle’s more attractive international markets – and it is one that the company intends nurturing in the years to come. David...

Oracle offers apps in Cloud Marketplace

Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – In amongst a slew of new cloud offerings, Oracle has also introduced the Oracle Cloud Marketplace aimed at giving businesses easy access to innovative and trusted business applications. The company says the Cloud...

Business continuity reaches the boardroom

The level of interest by African organisations in business continuity management (BCM) has risen in recent years. The report of a KPMG BCM Survey performed in 18 African countries in 2013, entitled Business Continuity Management in Africa: Building Resilience in a...

Companies battle with long-term storage

The majority of IT decision-makers in large organisations use manual processes to analyse and migrate stored data. They also rarely delete data, rather adding more storage when necessary. These are some of the findings from an independent survey commissioned by...

Global economy is still in disarray

Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world economy remains in disarray, according to a new UNCTAD report. To adjust to what now appears to be a structural crisis of the world economy, fundamental changes are needed in prevailing economic...