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Virtualisation managed by third parties
Less than one-third of businesses keep their virtualisation servers on-premises and managed entirely by their own internal IT staff, according to a Kaspersky Lab survey of 3 900 IT professionals worldwide. As virtual infrastructure increasingly handles more...
Customise mobile experience with Aruba
Aruba Networks has announced the global launch of Aruba Mobile Engagement, an interactive and personalised mobile solution based on WiFi and location services powered by Aruba Beacons. Aruba Mobile Engagement enables organisations to deliver customised push...
Riverbed launches FORCE 2014
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, launched at Riverbed FORCE 2014, l the Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance programme with 17 charter programme members. The new programme offers technology partners the opportunity to bring new...
DCC offers Microsoft ESD
Microsoft solutions from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) are now available via Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) to retailers and resellers. Microsoft ESD ensures the secure delivery of a product key that enables users to download the software and unlock...
Botnets: robots to avoid
Malware has been around in some form for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organised into something called a botnet is more than a 21st century phenomenon, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET Southern...
Connected citizens drive smarter cities
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - The reality of smart cities is likely to be driven by connected citizens in a bottom-up movement. Michael Bjorn, head researcher of Ericsson Consumer Lab, says that the Internet facilitates smart...
Massive economic, societal change in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Africa is ready to embrace mobile broadband, and the technology has the potential to drive massive economic and societal change. In Africa, mobile penetration is happening. Ericsson president...
Building the 5G networks of the future
Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - It is hoped that 5G will become a reality as soon as 2020, and Ericsson is already well on its way to making the next-generation network infrastructure a reality. Dr Sara Mazur, head of...
Broadband to drive ‘astounding’ change
Kathy Gibson reports from the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - ICT, and broadband penetration in particular, will have a massive social impact over the next five years – and governments that don’t adapt quickly will get left behind. This is the word...
Omni-channel drives IT in retail
By 2017, three times the current number of retailers will succeed in explicitly pinning their customer and operations strategies on 3rd platform technologies. This is one of the findings from an International Data Corporation (IDC) report “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide...
Schneider appointment strengthens board
Schneider Electric South Africa, a specialist in energy management, is pleased to announce that Canninah Mapena and Bongani Twala have been appointed as executive directors to its board, with immediate effect. Mapena also serves as the director of the energy division...
The hidden costs of hosted VoIP
Many businesses rush into hosted VoIP investments, seeing the technology as an enormous cost saving - only to be disappointed with the results. Too often, this is because it is difficult to evaluate the true costs of VoIP, resulting in turn, in an unquantifiable...
Fraud awareness in education vital
Fraud knowledge is essential in combatting wasteful expenditure in the education sector, which, according to a 2013 report by Corruption Watch, a civil society watchdog, accounts for as much as R3,3-billion of R30-billion of wasteful expenditure lost annually by the...
Virtualisation managed by third parties
Less than one-third of businesses keep their virtualisation servers on-premises and managed entirely by their own internal IT staff, according to a Kaspersky Lab survey of 3 900 IT professionals worldwide. As virtual infrastructure increasingly handles more...
Customise mobile experience with Aruba
Aruba Networks has announced the global launch of Aruba Mobile Engagement, an interactive and personalised mobile solution based on WiFi and location services powered by Aruba Beacons. Aruba Mobile Engagement enables organisations to deliver customised push...
Riverbed launches FORCE 2014
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, launched at Riverbed FORCE 2014, l the Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance programme with 17 charter programme members. The new programme offers technology partners the opportunity to bring new...
DCC offers Microsoft ESD
Microsoft solutions from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) are now available via Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) to retailers and resellers. Microsoft ESD ensures the secure delivery of a product key that enables users to download the software and unlock...
Botnets: robots to avoid
Malware has been around in some form for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organised into something called a botnet is more than a 21st century phenomenon, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET Southern...
Connected citizens drive smarter cities
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - The reality of smart cities is likely to be driven by connected citizens in a bottom-up movement. Michael Bjorn, head researcher of Ericsson Consumer Lab, says that the Internet facilitates smart...
Massive economic, societal change in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Africa is ready to embrace mobile broadband, and the technology has the potential to drive massive economic and societal change. In Africa, mobile penetration is happening. Ericsson president...