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MTN to roll out FTTH nationally
Following the successful deployment of Fibre To The Home (FTTH) at the gated estate of Monaghan Farm in Johannesburg, MTN South Africa now plans to deploy the network nationally with a range of competitive pricing.
Fund managers key in African investment
Africa may be the flavour of the month in terms of investment, but in relative terms still attracts a small percentage of private equity (PE) and international investment capital. In a plenary at the Africa Development Forum in Marrakech focusing on private equity,...
Partnering opportunity for VMware resellers
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2014 in Barcelona - Channel partners will be able to offer VMware’s new vCloud Air hybrid cloud service in a number of ways. Richard Munro, chief technologies: vCloud Air at VMware, explains that partners can have the services hosted...
African development must come from within
Africa is growing at a steady rate and is on the path to long-term sustainable growth, but the resources required for this must come from generating financial resources within its own economies and not aid. Speakers at the ECA’s Ninth African Development Forum agreed...
Breaking the cycle of recruiting, training and churning
There are few business operations that are more challenging from a human resources perspective than running a call centre, writes Ivanna Granelli, founder of Can!Do Consulting. Here, at the front lines of customer service, businesses face a tension between the need to...
WiFi in education cannot be overlooked
Ruckus Wireless will be presenting at the e-Learning and Technology Summit, taking place at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg beginning today (16 October). The summit will explore major technology developments taking place in the e-learning space and how it is...
SAP named enterprise mobile management leader
Industry analyst firms Forrester Research and IDC have named SAP a leader for enterprise mobile management (EMM) in their recently published reports, with the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio achieving a Leader position in both Forrester’s EMM Wave and the IDC MarketScape:...
How CIOs can capitalise on hybrid cloud
Understanding and capitalising on hybrid cloud are priorities for today’s CIOs. Because it incorporates public and private clouds, a hybrid cloud brings together the best of both worlds by enabling businesses and their IT organisations unprecedented flexibility in...
Single-minded approach to multidimensional communications
The constant evolution of customers’ communication preferences makes effective organisational communications seem difficult to achieve … but this is actually easier than it looks. Because communications technology has developed in phases, organisations have...
StorTech relaunches data centre
In response to market demand, solutions and systems integration specialist StorTech has re-launched its data centre as a fully-fledged Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC). Kishore Natvarlal, Managing Executive of StorTech’s Data Centre, says that innovation is being...
Dell debuts network functions virtualisation platform
Dell has introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can...
Océ debuts small but scalable light production press
Océ South Africa has added the Canon imagePress C800 series, a range of three colour printers with a throughput of 60 pages per minute (ppm), 70ppm or 8ppm, to its product offering. The target range of these devices is from 40 000 to 70 000 A4 pages. “A powerful and...
How the cloud is transforming HR and payroll management
Cloud computing and mobility bring a range of powerful benefits for HR and payroll managers, enabling them to become more efficient while offering their employees and the business a better quality of service. That's according to Anton van Heerden, MD of Sage HR &...
MTN to roll out FTTH nationally
Following the successful deployment of Fibre To The Home (FTTH) at the gated estate of Monaghan Farm in Johannesburg, MTN South Africa now plans to deploy the network nationally with a range of competitive pricing.
Fund managers key in African investment
Africa may be the flavour of the month in terms of investment, but in relative terms still attracts a small percentage of private equity (PE) and international investment capital. In a plenary at the Africa Development Forum in Marrakech focusing on private equity,...
Partnering opportunity for VMware resellers
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2014 in Barcelona - Channel partners will be able to offer VMware’s new vCloud Air hybrid cloud service in a number of ways. Richard Munro, chief technologies: vCloud Air at VMware, explains that partners can have the services hosted...
African development must come from within
Africa is growing at a steady rate and is on the path to long-term sustainable growth, but the resources required for this must come from generating financial resources within its own economies and not aid. Speakers at the ECA’s Ninth African Development Forum agreed...
Breaking the cycle of recruiting, training and churning
There are few business operations that are more challenging from a human resources perspective than running a call centre, writes Ivanna Granelli, founder of Can!Do Consulting. Here, at the front lines of customer service, businesses face a tension between the need to...
WiFi in education cannot be overlooked
Ruckus Wireless will be presenting at the e-Learning and Technology Summit, taking place at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg beginning today (16 October). The summit will explore major technology developments taking place in the e-learning space and how it is...
SAP named enterprise mobile management leader
Industry analyst firms Forrester Research and IDC have named SAP a leader for enterprise mobile management (EMM) in their recently published reports, with the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio achieving a Leader position in both Forrester’s EMM Wave and the IDC MarketScape:...