Oracle, salesforce.com sign partnership

Oracle has continued its charm offensive, yesterday announcing a comprehensive nine-year partnership with salesforce.com. The partnership all three tiers of cloud computing: applications; platform; and infrastructure. As part of the agreement, salesforce.com plans to...

HP, SAP demo ‘Project Kraken’ system

HP and SAP have demonstrated a test system as part of their joint initiative, “Project Kraken”, expected to improve business processes and mitigate risks for customers. The HP server system, optimised with the in-memory SAP HANA database for SAP Business Suite, was...

T-Systems scoops R67,5m DWA contact

T-Systems in South Africa has been awarded an SAP Application Management and Modernisation (AMM) contract by the Department of Water Affairs worth R67,5-million. The three-year agreement, awarded following a tender process, continues T-Systems’ relationship with the...

ISPA renews call for radio spectrum audit

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) is once again calling on the Department of Communications to release information relating to progress made in auditing the use of radio frequency spectrum in South Africa. “Spectrum is a resource that needs to be...

PCs decline, but tablets drive growth

Worldwide devices – the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones – are projected to reach 2,35-billion units in 2013, a 5,9% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. The market is being driven by sales in tablets, smartphones, and – to a...

IBM set to transform Dutch water system

IBM has launched Digital Delta, a breakthrough innovation program that will harness insights from big data to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system. The program is in collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat (the Dutch Ministry for...