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McAfee announces portfolio expansion
McAfee has announced its strategy for building upon Security Connected, the framework in which security products and services work together to safeguard businesses with better protection from new types of attacks. McAfee will expand its current broad portfolio...
Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers boom
Oracle has announced its SPARC T4 servers featuring Oracle Solaris power mission-critical workloads in over 3 000 enterprises worldwide, nearly four times the number announced one year ago. Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers have been adopted globally across all major...
Security predictions for 2013
As users round out their 2013 business and IT plans, cybercriminals are resolving to implement increasingly sophisticated threats targeting specific computer systems and organisations big and small. This is according to Doros Hadjizenonos, South Africa sales manager...
Comztek drives gateprotect expansion
German IT security specialist gateprotect has appointed Comztek as its value-added distributor for the African region. The agreement, effective since January 2013, addresses the African growth regions and is another step for gateprotect’s expansion of its sales...
Data heads back in-house
Data is increasingly being brought back in-house following a brief foray to third-party providers. This is one of the findings of Oracle’s Next Generation Data Centre Index, which indicates that businesses are bringing their data back in-house following a year in...
Teraco gains security certification
Teraco Data Environments has successfully achieved the Level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification for its co-location data centres throughout South Africa. CEO Lex Van Wyk says that, “with this accreditation, and the largest...
Weaker rand not all bad news
Since the beginning of this year, the South African rand had depreciated by 6% against the USD, and is currently the weakest of EFFS tracked currencies. Contrary to popular view, this is not likely as a result of the recent Fitch downgrade of South Africa’s sovereign...
Best ever quarter for Lenovo
Lenovo has reported results for its third fiscal quarter ended 31 December, 2012. In its best quarter ever, Lenovo continued to outgrow the market in all geographies with record sales, pre-tax income and earnings. Lenovo continued its push towards becoming the world’s...
RSA unveils Security Analytics solution
RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, has announced the release of RSA Security Analytics - a transformational security monitoring and investigative solution designed to help organisations defend their digital assets against today’s most sophisticated...
Fujitsu to build on POS solution
Fujitsu has released information about the development of its next-generation integrated point of service solution, which will for the first time enable retailers to introduce in-store access to a multi-channel customer experience including online, mobile and...
Hosted models boost customer service
Many businesses and call centres have come to wrap their heads around the concept of hosted technology, where a provider offers the customer affordable, pay-per-use access to technology, along with ongoing support and service, says Jed Hewson, director of 1stream. ...
The pros and cons of big data
The opportunity to harvest insights from big data, much of which is marketable or can generate income, is obvious gold up for grabs, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge integration Dynamics (KID). Besides that, the transition of data or information from a...
IT asset management improves audit success
Effective IT asset management can help all tiers of government departments to have a clear view of their IT assets. This can help a department to have no unexplained variance between the lists of IT assets purchased against the actual assets that can be accounted for...
McAfee announces portfolio expansion
McAfee has announced its strategy for building upon Security Connected, the framework in which security products and services work together to safeguard businesses with better protection from new types of attacks. McAfee will expand its current broad portfolio...
Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers boom
Oracle has announced its SPARC T4 servers featuring Oracle Solaris power mission-critical workloads in over 3 000 enterprises worldwide, nearly four times the number announced one year ago. Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers have been adopted globally across all major...
Security predictions for 2013
As users round out their 2013 business and IT plans, cybercriminals are resolving to implement increasingly sophisticated threats targeting specific computer systems and organisations big and small. This is according to Doros Hadjizenonos, South Africa sales manager...
Comztek drives gateprotect expansion
German IT security specialist gateprotect has appointed Comztek as its value-added distributor for the African region. The agreement, effective since January 2013, addresses the African growth regions and is another step for gateprotect’s expansion of its sales...
Data heads back in-house
Data is increasingly being brought back in-house following a brief foray to third-party providers. This is one of the findings of Oracle’s Next Generation Data Centre Index, which indicates that businesses are bringing their data back in-house following a year in...
Teraco gains security certification
Teraco Data Environments has successfully achieved the Level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification for its co-location data centres throughout South Africa. CEO Lex Van Wyk says that, “with this accreditation, and the largest...
Weaker rand not all bad news
Since the beginning of this year, the South African rand had depreciated by 6% against the USD, and is currently the weakest of EFFS tracked currencies. Contrary to popular view, this is not likely as a result of the recent Fitch downgrade of South Africa’s sovereign...