DCC moves into Mozambique market

Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) is expanding its African presence with the opening of a local office and warehouse in Maputo, Mozambique. The new sales team will be headed up by Marina Duarte, a Mozambican local with more than eight years’ experience in...

Cisco boosts its SA channel operation

Cisco has appointed a new channel director to head up the South African region, as well as a new distributor to help accelerate time to market and service channel customers. Kevin Hardy has been appointed as director of partner operations and commercial for Cisco’s...

Energy-intensive users’ costs still rising

A survey of energy-intensive users has found that the electricity portion of their total input costs has increased by an average of 9% to 18% between 2007 and 2012. Shaun Nel, project director and advisor of the Energy Intensive Users Group of Southern Africa, reveals...

EnterpriseWorx brings cloud BI to Africa

Kognitio, which drives the convergence of big data, in-memory analytics and cloud computing, has partnered with South African business intelligence (BI), data management and software engineering specialist EnterpriseWorx to deliver the first cloud-based analytics...

Lenovo to build African Android statue

Lenovo aims to become the first company to create an African Android statue, to mark the launch of the Lenovo A1000, A3000 and S6000 Android tablets in Africa. The most famous Android statues have been created by Google and are located at its corporate headquarters in...

Hitachi Data Systems now official

As of today, the company formerly known as Shoden Data Systems will officially trade in South Africa as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). “We are very proud of where we come from as Shoden, but we are very proud of being part of HDS,” says Shaun Barendsen, country manager...