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$10k for Africa’s top travel app
Visa and South African Tourism’s $10 000 challenge to developers across sub-Saharan Africa to build the continent’s best travel app is now open for entries. First announced at the E-Tourism Summit in Cape Town last year, the Africa App Quest is built on the growing...
Infectious diseases on the agenda
Infectious diseases remain one of the largest causes of preventable death around the world, with Africa as the focus of many of the most pernicious of them. Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, and also has a large presence...
Thomson Reuters signs deal with the ECB
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has signed a three-year deal with the European Central Bank (ECB) to roll out Thomson Reuters Eikon desktops across the ECB and 18 participating national central banks. It is so far the largest market data purchasing initiative...
Hyland Software partners with BSVA IS
Hyland Software and BSVA Integrated Services (BSVA IS) have partnered to offer OnBase, Hyland’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution, to organisations in Africa. BSVA IS, a subsidiary of BankservAfrica, is a trusted organisation in South Africa providing...
NetApp simplifies Revlon’s IT
NetApp has announced its role in Revlon’s IT transformation. The global beauty leader turned to NetApp to help inject simplicity, agility and cost efficiencies throughout all levels of its business. Through the NetApp storage foundation, which is at the heart of the...
CA ARCserve simplifies backup, recovery
CA Southern Africa has announced enhancements to its CA ARCserve data protection solution aimed at simplifying backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtual server environments, while significantly improving performance, scalability and flexibility. The new...
Terracotta unveils BigMemory 4.0
Terracotta, the leader in in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, has unveiled the newest version of its flagship in-memory data platform, BigMemory. With BigMemory version 4.0, enterprises can move up to hundreds of terabytes of high-value data from slow disk...
SAP releases Business One for SAP HANA
SAP AG has announced the SAP Business One version for SAP HANA, the first business management solution for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) running fully in-memory. The application is a scalable, affordable solution with embedded analytics capabilities and...
Marval announces availability of MSM v12.5
Marval South AfArica, local representative of the Marval Group (UK) and thought leader in IT governance and service management, is pleased to announce the availability of Marval Service Management (MSM) v 12.5, the latest version of Marval’s award-winning service...
IQ Retail, Jasco deliver SaaS to resellers
Following the launch of Jasco’s Virtual Data Centre, financial and business administration software developer, IQ Retail, has partnered with Jasco Networks, to move its retail accounting software and point of sale (POS) solutions to a secure cloud-based computing...
Virtualisation fails data protection
Enterprises are still not experiencing the full benefits that virtualisation brings to data protection, with capabilities, complexity and cost all affecting implementations. Indeed, in a number of areas enterprises’ data protection capabilities have actually...
Display prices drop on tablet demand
The boom in media tablet demand is causing display providers to flock to the market with more products, inflating the supply base and causing prices to decline, according to an IHS iSuppli LCD Price Tracker report from IHS. Pricing in January declined for 7-inch,...
Microsoft hit with E561m EU fine
The European Union’s anti-trust regulators have hit Microsoft with a E561-million fine for failing to offer Windows users an alternative to Internet Explorer. This follows a 2009 agreement that Microsoft would give users a choice of alternative browsers – and which it...
$10k for Africa’s top travel app
Visa and South African Tourism’s $10 000 challenge to developers across sub-Saharan Africa to build the continent’s best travel app is now open for entries. First announced at the E-Tourism Summit in Cape Town last year, the Africa App Quest is built on the growing...
Infectious diseases on the agenda
Infectious diseases remain one of the largest causes of preventable death around the world, with Africa as the focus of many of the most pernicious of them. Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, and also has a large presence...
Thomson Reuters signs deal with the ECB
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has signed a three-year deal with the European Central Bank (ECB) to roll out Thomson Reuters Eikon desktops across the ECB and 18 participating national central banks. It is so far the largest market data purchasing initiative...
Hyland Software partners with BSVA IS
Hyland Software and BSVA Integrated Services (BSVA IS) have partnered to offer OnBase, Hyland’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution, to organisations in Africa. BSVA IS, a subsidiary of BankservAfrica, is a trusted organisation in South Africa providing...
NetApp simplifies Revlon’s IT
NetApp has announced its role in Revlon’s IT transformation. The global beauty leader turned to NetApp to help inject simplicity, agility and cost efficiencies throughout all levels of its business. Through the NetApp storage foundation, which is at the heart of the...
CA ARCserve simplifies backup, recovery
CA Southern Africa has announced enhancements to its CA ARCserve data protection solution aimed at simplifying backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtual server environments, while significantly improving performance, scalability and flexibility. The new...
Terracotta unveils BigMemory 4.0
Terracotta, the leader in in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, has unveiled the newest version of its flagship in-memory data platform, BigMemory. With BigMemory version 4.0, enterprises can move up to hundreds of terabytes of high-value data from slow disk...