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IT changes focus in IoT world
Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...
Solutionsonsite offers Agile training for business
Specialist Cape Town-based Agile training company Solutionsonsite has announced a first-of-its-kind course for business professionals involved in managing Agile software development requirements. Designed with business analysts, product owners and other key team...
BT enhances security portfolio
BT has announced that it is integrating technology from Darktrace, one of the world’s fastest growing cyber threat defence companies, to deliver next-generation cyber threat detection and intelligence services to the global market. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System...
Politics, oil price pose risks to Nigeria
Control Risks has published its annual RiskMap report, an established authoritative guide and key reference point for policymakers and business leaders seeking to plot global trends over the coming year. RiskMap highlights the most significant underlying trends in...
New network to boost IoT
IBM Research and Semtech have announced a new technology based on low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) that offers significant advantages over cellular networks and WiFi for providing machine to machine (M2M) communications. For years, the enormous potential of the...
Eskom suspends execs, orders inquiry
The Eskom board has suspended four key executives – including the CEO – and will commission an independent inquiry on the current status of the business and its challenges. Among other things, the commission will form an independent view on: the poor performance of generation plant; delays in bringing the new generation plant on-stream; the high costs of primary energy; and cash flow challenges.
The importance of ethics in data debate
The collection and use of personal data excites marketers, but scares the public. With new technologies, such as big data, it is easy to cross the "creepy" line, says Frank Buytendijk, research vice-president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. He says the question...
SITA under fire for SAPS contracts
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Police was briefed by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to assess the role these agencies play – and heard that major IT projects are still undeployed up to 13 years after they started. SITA’s briefing was aimed at tracking progress on the implementation of projects such as the Integrated Case Document Management System, otherwise known as e-docket, which started in 2002 and yet to be completed.
Cloud is viable, but not a top CIO priority
Cloud is now a viable option for many IT projects, requiring infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to expand the scope of systems as they actively consider those that are cloud-based, according to Gartner. This is the first of four major I&O impacts...
Ricoh helps to save pre-tsunami memories
Ricoh has successfully returned almost 90 000 photos through its Save the Memory Project, which it has been carrying out as part of its reconstruction support activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in August 2011. The aim of the project it to...
Up-to-date learning for your workforce
Businesses have long struggled with how to effectively train their employees, while showing a solid return on investment (ROI). The rising costs associated with instructor-led training have added to the dilemma. According to research performed originally by Edgar Dole...
Customer experience a key concern
The unhappy customer – to most companies, this is the worst possible business outcome. How about the indifferent customer? If the customer is king, then surely logic should follow that the customer’s experience, and by association their feelings toward your business,...
Innovation, investment drive Wyzetalk growth
When Wyzetalk started as a tech project in 2011 born out of frustration at the limiting features of social business software available, nobody envisioned the rapid successes it would achieve. IDC estimates that by 2016 the size of the global social and collaboration...
IT changes focus in IoT world
Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...
Solutionsonsite offers Agile training for business
Specialist Cape Town-based Agile training company Solutionsonsite has announced a first-of-its-kind course for business professionals involved in managing Agile software development requirements. Designed with business analysts, product owners and other key team...
BT enhances security portfolio
BT has announced that it is integrating technology from Darktrace, one of the world’s fastest growing cyber threat defence companies, to deliver next-generation cyber threat detection and intelligence services to the global market. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System...
Politics, oil price pose risks to Nigeria
Control Risks has published its annual RiskMap report, an established authoritative guide and key reference point for policymakers and business leaders seeking to plot global trends over the coming year. RiskMap highlights the most significant underlying trends in...
New network to boost IoT
IBM Research and Semtech have announced a new technology based on low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) that offers significant advantages over cellular networks and WiFi for providing machine to machine (M2M) communications. For years, the enormous potential of the...
Eskom suspends execs, orders inquiry
The Eskom board has suspended four key executives – including the CEO – and will commission an independent inquiry on the current status of the business and its challenges. Among other things, the commission will form an independent view on: the poor performance of generation plant; delays in bringing the new generation plant on-stream; the high costs of primary energy; and cash flow challenges.
The importance of ethics in data debate
The collection and use of personal data excites marketers, but scares the public. With new technologies, such as big data, it is easy to cross the "creepy" line, says Frank Buytendijk, research vice-president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. He says the question...