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Oracle announces IaaS solution
Adding to its comprehensive and flexible cloud portfolio, Oracle has announced Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (Oracle IaaS) with Capacity on Demand. Oracle IaaS enables organisations to deploy fully integrated engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database...
FNB Connect offers free Wikipedia access
FNB Connect, the internal Internet service provider to FNB, has announced that they are offering their ADSL customers free Wikipedia data browsing between 7pm and 11pm. This development comes in response to a plea from a group of Grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High...
Xerox sponsors Africa Print Expo
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), the authorised Xerox distributor in 26 sub-Saharan Africa countries and a division of Bytes Technology Group, recently confirmed its continued support for the Africa Print Expo by signing Xerox as a platinum sponsor for 2013. “This is...
Curiosity ready to drill on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a...
Help at hand for carbon compliance
One of the major challenges that South African businesses are set to face in 2013 is the whole issue of climate change and sustainability - because this year, local organisations will be obliged to respond to these issues. Much has been spoken and written about the...
DoC meets with broadcasters
The Department of Communications (DoC) has met with the SABC, etv and other free-to-air broadcasters to consider the implications of implementing the South Gauteng High Court decision to grant broadcasters the right to control conditional access in state-subsidised...
Rectron brings Everki to SA
Rectron South Africa has been appointed as the sole local distributor for the Everki brand. Everki is a California USA-based manufacturer of high-quality, stylish and innovative lifestyle products that carry and protect digital equipment. Its products include laptop...
Datatec experiences slight dip
Datatec has published an interim management statement, for the period from 1 September 2012 to 31 December 2012, warning that performance for the financial year will be lower than originally forecast. Group revenues for the financial year are expected to reach...
New BCS manager at HP
HP has announced the appointment of President Ntuli as HP Business Critical Servers (BCS) BU and sales manager for the Enterprise Group in South Africa, with immediate effect. Ntuli’s new position forms part of a string of other new management appointments over the...
BI on-the-go comes of age
Business intelligence (BI) on-the-go is finally here, thanks to the arrival of high-performance mobile devices and the evolution of robust data-carrying infrastructure. According to Ovum, mobile BI solutions, which in the past have suffered from a lack of...
Enterasys releases new switches
A new 10-model family of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet networking edge switches designed to deliver enterprise level features, including scalable, wire-rate performance, at an entry level price point has been released by Enterasys Networks. The Enterasys...
SAP updates Afaria MDM solution
SAP has announced the latest version of SAP Afaria, the industry-leading mobile device management (MDM) solution. Enhancements to the industry's most widely deployed enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution include deepening enterprise integration and...
Getting SA’s mines online
South Africa’s mining sector is one of the largest driving forces behind, and contributors to, the national economy. Since the terrain where mines operate is unforgiving and working conditions are perilous, the industry has also become increasingly reliant on...
Oracle announces IaaS solution
Adding to its comprehensive and flexible cloud portfolio, Oracle has announced Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (Oracle IaaS) with Capacity on Demand. Oracle IaaS enables organisations to deploy fully integrated engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database...
FNB Connect offers free Wikipedia access
FNB Connect, the internal Internet service provider to FNB, has announced that they are offering their ADSL customers free Wikipedia data browsing between 7pm and 11pm. This development comes in response to a plea from a group of Grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High...
Xerox sponsors Africa Print Expo
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), the authorised Xerox distributor in 26 sub-Saharan Africa countries and a division of Bytes Technology Group, recently confirmed its continued support for the Africa Print Expo by signing Xerox as a platinum sponsor for 2013. “This is...
Curiosity ready to drill on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a...
Help at hand for carbon compliance
One of the major challenges that South African businesses are set to face in 2013 is the whole issue of climate change and sustainability - because this year, local organisations will be obliged to respond to these issues. Much has been spoken and written about the...
DoC meets with broadcasters
The Department of Communications (DoC) has met with the SABC, etv and other free-to-air broadcasters to consider the implications of implementing the South Gauteng High Court decision to grant broadcasters the right to control conditional access in state-subsidised...
Rectron brings Everki to SA
Rectron South Africa has been appointed as the sole local distributor for the Everki brand. Everki is a California USA-based manufacturer of high-quality, stylish and innovative lifestyle products that carry and protect digital equipment. Its products include laptop...