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Who’s who on SA’s social networks?
South Africa’s fastest rising social networks are visual platforms owned by the competing giants of social media – and the number of users is growing daily. YouTube users in South Africa increased by 53% to 7,2-million, while Instagram increased its user base by 65% to 1,1-million in 2014. Facebook has reached 11,8-million users, Twitter 6,6-million users, and LinkedIn has grown to 3,8-million users. “We’re seeing the beginning of the visual revolution in online usage in South Africa,” says Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx.
Social media enables purchasing decisions
Nearly three quarters of business-to-business (B2B) buyers and 84% of C-level/vice-president executives surveyed say they use social media to support purchase decisions. According to the findings of a recently-completed Social Buying Study from International Data...
Active disaster recovery aids continuity
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai - System downtime is an expensive business: it costs businesses millions of dollars every year, to the extent that about 10% of R&D in the ICT industry is spent on disaster recovery. Avneesh Saxena,...
DiData offers managed data centre services
Dimension Data is deploying globally standardised managed services for data centres. Built on the group’s Managed Services Automation Platform, the portfolio manages servers, storage and networks for on-premise, cloud and hybrid data centres. Earlier this year,...
IT spend set for growth in MEA
IT spending by financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) - Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Turkey - is set for strong year-on-year growth of 10,8% in 2014. This is according to the latest insights from global advisory...
Impressive annual results for EOH
EOH has announced that revenue for the year ended 31 July 2014 has increased by 42% to R7 220-million, and profit after tax is up by 49% to R492-million.
Why cloud falls short for enterprise storage
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Organisations are looking to the cloud to meet their future data centre needs – but they could run into problems if they store their enterprise data in today’s public cloud. Noam Shendar,...
Moving past the Apple Pay hype
The hype around the launch of Apple Pay has raised both enterprise and consumer expectations about the spread of mobile payments. But it is important to separate this hype from the reality - particularly from a regional point of view, according to IDC. In addition,...
Big data set to grow to $41,5bn
International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that the big data technology and services market will grow at a 26,4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $41,5-billion through 2018, or about six times the growth rate of the overall IT market. Although IDC believes...
UCT improves in 2014 university rankings
The University of Cape Town has maintained its upward trend in the annual Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, moving up four places to 141st place for the 2014/2015 ranking cycle. The university was ranked 145th last year. The rankings were released...
Kaspersky multi-device 2015 now in stores
Following the announcement of the Kaspersky Internet Security – multi-device 2015 product, the solution is now available for purchase from Saturday 13 September 2014, in leading technology retail stores. The device brings added protection to home users’ – safeguarding...
Control logistics processes with information
Cargo transport in South Africa is an industry faced with a number of challenges. Companies in this sector have one overriding objective – move their cargo as fast as possible to where it is required. However, infrastructure problems make this a difficult task, and...
Demystifying LTE
Data is being consumed rapidly and consumers require instant communication and access to information. This is mostly due to the emergence and increased availability of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets as well as more and less costly bandwidth. These...
Who’s who on SA’s social networks?
South Africa’s fastest rising social networks are visual platforms owned by the competing giants of social media – and the number of users is growing daily. YouTube users in South Africa increased by 53% to 7,2-million, while Instagram increased its user base by 65% to 1,1-million in 2014. Facebook has reached 11,8-million users, Twitter 6,6-million users, and LinkedIn has grown to 3,8-million users. “We’re seeing the beginning of the visual revolution in online usage in South Africa,” says Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx.
Social media enables purchasing decisions
Nearly three quarters of business-to-business (B2B) buyers and 84% of C-level/vice-president executives surveyed say they use social media to support purchase decisions. According to the findings of a recently-completed Social Buying Study from International Data...
Active disaster recovery aids continuity
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai - System downtime is an expensive business: it costs businesses millions of dollars every year, to the extent that about 10% of R&D in the ICT industry is spent on disaster recovery. Avneesh Saxena,...
DiData offers managed data centre services
Dimension Data is deploying globally standardised managed services for data centres. Built on the group’s Managed Services Automation Platform, the portfolio manages servers, storage and networks for on-premise, cloud and hybrid data centres. Earlier this year,...
IT spend set for growth in MEA
IT spending by financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) - Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Turkey - is set for strong year-on-year growth of 10,8% in 2014. This is according to the latest insights from global advisory...
Impressive annual results for EOH
EOH has announced that revenue for the year ended 31 July 2014 has increased by 42% to R7 220-million, and profit after tax is up by 49% to R492-million.
Why cloud falls short for enterprise storage
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Organisations are looking to the cloud to meet their future data centre needs – but they could run into problems if they store their enterprise data in today’s public cloud. Noam Shendar,...