Technology News
PPO overhauls learning approach
Project Portfolio Office is revolutionising the way it educates its users, potential clients and evaluators across the globe, with the introduction of online and on demand learning. The reasons? Greater geographical reach, reduced costs, and user convenience....
Vox to connect Parkhurst with Vumatel
Vox Telecom has confirmed its partnership with Vumatel, the company that won the project to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband in Parkhurst, as part of its continued commitment to providing high speed, reliable connectivity to consumers and businesses.
Citizen developers change the face of IT
A new study reveals that 80% of leading enterprises are forming new partnerships with "citizen developers”, industry professionals operating outside the scope of enterprise IT.These citizen developers help to close the skills gap for application development to drive...
African entrepreneurs in line for $75k prize
Young entrepreneurs from Africa are in line to win a $75 000 Anzisha prize when the African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation announce the winners on 23 September in Johannesburg. The Anzisha prize scours the continent seeking to find entrepreneurial...
Amazon to acquire Twitch for $1bn
Amazon.com has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, a leading live video platform for gamers, for close to $1-billion. In July, more than 55-million unique visitors viewed more than 15-billion minutes of content on Twitch produced by more than 1-million...
IBM’s John Akers passes away
John Akers, IBM’s sixth chief executive, died on 22 August 2014 in Boston at age 79. Samuel Palmisano, who earlier in his career served as Akers’ executive assistant and who later became IBM's eighth CEO, describes Akers as the ultimate company man - loyal to the...
Communicating security and risk management
The importance of information security and technology risk management keeps on growing, but many risk and security professionals continue to struggle with non-IT executive communication. Gartner vice-president and distinguished analyst Paul Proctor says that one of...
Manufacturers at risk of IP loss
A survey of nearly 4 000 IT managers across 27 countries, conducted by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with B2B International, found that 21% of manufacturers suffered a loss of intellectual property to security breaches within the past year. Malware was the most common...
VMware unveils hybrid cloud services
Continuing the rapid expansion of its VMware vCloud Air hybrid cloud platform, VMware has unveiled new hybrid cloud service capabilities and a new line-up of third-party mobile application services designed to enable enterprise and application developers to better...
VMware introduces EVO: RAIL
VMware has introduced VMware EVO: RAIL, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that helps customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of software-defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business. VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of...
Airtel offers cross-network money transfer
Bharti Airtel has announced the introduction of a service that will allow customers send and receive between Airtel’s mobile money service and that of Tigo in Tanzania. The service will be available for Airtel Tanzania and Tigo customers, enabling them to experience a...
Disaster recovery key in the cloud
The advent of cloud services and hybrid cloud infrastructure has fuelled the roll out of enterprise-ready DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service) offerings. The view of technology experts is that these offerings will continue to enter the mainstream and favourably...
Technology to improve service delivery
Gijima has played a significant role in the optimisation of state ICT infrastructure by developing the only certified SAP municipal template that is fully compliant with the requirements of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). The optimisation of state ICT...
PPO overhauls learning approach
Project Portfolio Office is revolutionising the way it educates its users, potential clients and evaluators across the globe, with the introduction of online and on demand learning. The reasons? Greater geographical reach, reduced costs, and user convenience....
Vox to connect Parkhurst with Vumatel
Vox Telecom has confirmed its partnership with Vumatel, the company that won the project to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband in Parkhurst, as part of its continued commitment to providing high speed, reliable connectivity to consumers and businesses.
Citizen developers change the face of IT
A new study reveals that 80% of leading enterprises are forming new partnerships with "citizen developers”, industry professionals operating outside the scope of enterprise IT.These citizen developers help to close the skills gap for application development to drive...
African entrepreneurs in line for $75k prize
Young entrepreneurs from Africa are in line to win a $75 000 Anzisha prize when the African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation announce the winners on 23 September in Johannesburg. The Anzisha prize scours the continent seeking to find entrepreneurial...
Amazon to acquire Twitch for $1bn
Amazon.com has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, a leading live video platform for gamers, for close to $1-billion. In July, more than 55-million unique visitors viewed more than 15-billion minutes of content on Twitch produced by more than 1-million...
IBM’s John Akers passes away
John Akers, IBM’s sixth chief executive, died on 22 August 2014 in Boston at age 79. Samuel Palmisano, who earlier in his career served as Akers’ executive assistant and who later became IBM's eighth CEO, describes Akers as the ultimate company man - loyal to the...
Communicating security and risk management
The importance of information security and technology risk management keeps on growing, but many risk and security professionals continue to struggle with non-IT executive communication. Gartner vice-president and distinguished analyst Paul Proctor says that one of...