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Networks Unlimited signs Simplivity
Networks Unlimited has signed an agreement with converged infrastructure vendor, SimpliVity, to distribute products throughout South Africa and Africa. SimpliVity is a disruptive technology that replaces the traditional data centre. The OmniCube, SimpliVity’s star...
Neotel turns eight
Neotel turns eight this year, and is celebrating a number of milestones, including approximately 1 000 staff, over 3 000 business customers, a 15-times industry growth rate, 16 500kms of national fibre, 9 000kms of fibre in cities and being the only service provider...
Metrofile announces dividends increase
Metrofile has announced it will pay a final gross cash dividend of eight cents per share in respect of the year ended 30 June 2014 - a 36,4% increase from 2013.In addition, the continued improvements in the group’s financial structure and cash flows have enabled the...
Telkom aims to be broadband leader
Central to Telkom’s turnaround strategy is becoming a leader in broadband provision, and it is doing this by changing its go-to-business model as well as its branding.
Siemon demonstrates LightStack system
Siemon, a leading global fibre optic infrastructure specialist, has created a new video to illustrate the advantages of its LightStack ultra high density fibre plug and play system for high performance data centres. As the film explains, the revolution caused by big...
Schneider Electric launches Modicon M580
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, launched the new Modicon M580, a pioneering automation controller, at its first South African Xperience Efficiency event held in Johannesburg from 26 to 27 August 2014. The event tackles the demand drivers...
Corobrik launches smartphone app
Five years ago, the only tablets you found on a building site were the occasional Panado to cure jackhammer-induced headaches. Today, however, the way architects and construction teams work has morphed dramatically. It is estimated that there are now over 29-million...
Gartner names Check Point as UTM leader
Check Point Software Technologies, a leader in securing the Internet, recently announced that it is again positioned as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM). This is the fourth consecutive year that Check Point has been named...
Seagate ships first 8Tb hard drive
Seagate Technology has announced that it is shipping the world’s first 8Tb hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8Tb hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of...
KZN learners provided with ICT training
A total of 25 rural KwaZulu-Natal students – all of them recent school-leavers – have successfully completed NQF Level 4 learnerships in ICT technical support, an invaluable qualification given the current employment crisis. The programme is the result of a...
Study maths and science, says minister
"South Africa needs to quadruple the number of engineering graduates per year," says the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor. She was speaking at the official opening of the UNESCO Africa Engineering Week at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday...
ZAdotCities domain name deadline looms
Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban are globally recognised, and businesses have until 4 November 2014 to apply for these ZAdotCities domain names. The ZAdotCities domains offer businesses in these three cities the ability to identify more closely with them and will...
Rectron expands BenQ offering
Rectron has expanded its offering by announcing its partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer BenQ, and unveiling several new display monitors and projectors designed to meet a variety of consumer needs. “We are very excited about partnering with BenQ, true leaders in...
Networks Unlimited signs Simplivity
Networks Unlimited has signed an agreement with converged infrastructure vendor, SimpliVity, to distribute products throughout South Africa and Africa. SimpliVity is a disruptive technology that replaces the traditional data centre. The OmniCube, SimpliVity’s star...
Neotel turns eight
Neotel turns eight this year, and is celebrating a number of milestones, including approximately 1 000 staff, over 3 000 business customers, a 15-times industry growth rate, 16 500kms of national fibre, 9 000kms of fibre in cities and being the only service provider...
Metrofile announces dividends increase
Metrofile has announced it will pay a final gross cash dividend of eight cents per share in respect of the year ended 30 June 2014 - a 36,4% increase from 2013.In addition, the continued improvements in the group’s financial structure and cash flows have enabled the...
Telkom aims to be broadband leader
Central to Telkom’s turnaround strategy is becoming a leader in broadband provision, and it is doing this by changing its go-to-business model as well as its branding.
Siemon demonstrates LightStack system
Siemon, a leading global fibre optic infrastructure specialist, has created a new video to illustrate the advantages of its LightStack ultra high density fibre plug and play system for high performance data centres. As the film explains, the revolution caused by big...
Schneider Electric launches Modicon M580
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, launched the new Modicon M580, a pioneering automation controller, at its first South African Xperience Efficiency event held in Johannesburg from 26 to 27 August 2014. The event tackles the demand drivers...
Corobrik launches smartphone app
Five years ago, the only tablets you found on a building site were the occasional Panado to cure jackhammer-induced headaches. Today, however, the way architects and construction teams work has morphed dramatically. It is estimated that there are now over 29-million...