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Network security market saw 2014 growth
Global network security appliance and software revenue climbed 6% in 2014 to reach $6,9-billion, as enterprises and network operators deployed security solutions aimed at protecting data and network infrastructure. This is according to the Q4 and year-end Network...
Gartner wants to showcase African innovators
Gartner is looking for Africa’s top innovative start-ups to enter the Aspiring Innovators programme being run as part of the Cape Town leg of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2015, taking place from 28 to 30 September 2015. “This year we’re calling on African tech...
Spies is CEO-designate at Pinnacle
Pinnacle Holdings has announced the appointment of Pierre Spies as deputy CEO, with a view to assuming the CEO position when incumbent Arnold Fourie retires. The move, effective from 1 July 2015, will leave Spies’ previous position of CEO of AxizWorkgroup vacant.
Keeping unqualified drivers off the roads
South Africa has the second-highest road accident fatality rate in the world, and yet information from the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) indicates there could be almost 500 000 professional drivers working without proper documentation. By Jenny Reid, MD...
Simfy Africa now available on Windows Phone
The new innovative music service simfy Africa debuts on Windows Phone devices in South Africa. The application has been developed by simfy Africa, in conjunction with Microsoft, offering consumers using Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones a compelling user experience. Simfy...
New MD for Katika Consulting
Katika Consulting has announced the appointment of Jaco Cronje as MD. A Level Four B-BBEE engineering consultancy, Katika specialises in refining business processes, designing information and communication technology solutions and electronic security systems and...
Wings Travel Management launches GoData
Wings Travel Management, specialists in the oil, gas, marine and service critical corporate sector, is boosting its management information capabilities with the launch of GoData - an intuitive, mobile-enabled business intelligence tool, allowing clients to drill down...
Transforming business inside and out
Disruptive digital technologies have revolutionised the way customers behave and interact with organisations as well as the way people within enterprises operate, says Shailendra Singh, business director of Africa Region, Wipro South Africa. From the increasing...
Questions to ask your cloud backup provider
Data backup is a little like buying car insurance. You may never need to claim but it is statistically likely that you may have to. When that happens, you want a quick settlement so that you can get back on the road or, in the case of data backup and recovery, get...
Dell enhances storage portfolio
Dell has announced its second wave of Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances. These highly scalable integrated solutions help streamline the data centre and now offer more than 50% storage capacity and up to twice the rack density to support customers...
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...
Network security market saw 2014 growth
Global network security appliance and software revenue climbed 6% in 2014 to reach $6,9-billion, as enterprises and network operators deployed security solutions aimed at protecting data and network infrastructure. This is according to the Q4 and year-end Network...
Gartner wants to showcase African innovators
Gartner is looking for Africa’s top innovative start-ups to enter the Aspiring Innovators programme being run as part of the Cape Town leg of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2015, taking place from 28 to 30 September 2015. “This year we’re calling on African tech...
Spies is CEO-designate at Pinnacle
Pinnacle Holdings has announced the appointment of Pierre Spies as deputy CEO, with a view to assuming the CEO position when incumbent Arnold Fourie retires. The move, effective from 1 July 2015, will leave Spies’ previous position of CEO of AxizWorkgroup vacant.
Keeping unqualified drivers off the roads
South Africa has the second-highest road accident fatality rate in the world, and yet information from the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) indicates there could be almost 500 000 professional drivers working without proper documentation. By Jenny Reid, MD...
Simfy Africa now available on Windows Phone
The new innovative music service simfy Africa debuts on Windows Phone devices in South Africa. The application has been developed by simfy Africa, in conjunction with Microsoft, offering consumers using Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones a compelling user experience. Simfy...
New MD for Katika Consulting
Katika Consulting has announced the appointment of Jaco Cronje as MD. A Level Four B-BBEE engineering consultancy, Katika specialises in refining business processes, designing information and communication technology solutions and electronic security systems and...
Wings Travel Management launches GoData
Wings Travel Management, specialists in the oil, gas, marine and service critical corporate sector, is boosting its management information capabilities with the launch of GoData - an intuitive, mobile-enabled business intelligence tool, allowing clients to drill down...