Growthpoint Properties to gain broadband

Growthpoint Properties has penned an exclusive five-year partnership with Dimension Data that will evaluate the viability of open-access high-speed Internet to Growthpoint’s 353 commercial and industrial properties across South Africa. Thanks to this partnership,...

New Software AG team looks for growth

Software AG South Africa is looking forward to the second half of the year, with a new management team that is confident of growth. The local operation has been among the more successful subsidiaries in the global company’s EMEA region over the last few years and new...

AdaptIT rationalises operating companies

A number of companies – BI Planning Services (BIPS), ITS Abacus, ITS Africa Technologies, ITS Holdings, ITS Tertiary Software and Synet – are to be amalgamated into AdaptIT, which will become the holding company for them all. This is effective from 1 July, and...

Corporate secrets underpin espionage attacks

The UK is waking up to the fact that business secrets are being stolen on an industrial scale – and could be used in cyber-espionage attacks. MWR InfoSecurity has issued a warning about stolen corporate secrets following comments to the BBC from British intelligence...

XDSL connects to WACS

XDSL, a local Internet service provider (ISP) that recently announced a South African first in the provision of high speed, high capacity 25Mbps, 50Mbps and 100Mbps fibre broadband connectivity, has secured a direct link to the West African Cable System (WACS) via...

Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya lead UC market

A new IDC MarketScape report has found that Cisco, Microsoft and Avaya are leaders in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market for 2013. “UC&C customers have a variety of excellent platforms to choose from, but also the challenge of figuring...