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Remote working increases productivity
Remote working describes the arrangement by which employees work mainly from home and telecommunicate with their company, says Yossi Hasson, co-founder and CEO at SYNAQ. The practice is becoming increasingly popular with mainstream organisations as the link between...
New Simpana Solution Sets from CommVault
CommVault has announced new Simpana cloud management capabilities and Simpana Solution Sets designed to transform how companies of all sizes protect, manage and maximise the value of business information amidst a rising tide of data and compliance requirements. As...
Vivotek offers weatherproof surveillance
South Africans are no strangers to harsh weather conditions, with rough winds, hail downpours and thunderstorms that stun. With the new next-generation 1080p full HD speed dome network camera SD8364E from Vivotek, worries about the survival of your surveillance...
BYOD security lags in SA
South African employees are using their own devices at work – but in many cases their employers haven’t yet implemented security measures. With the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast estimating that there will be 98-million...
Polio mutation breaches vaccine protection
Thanks to effective vaccination, polio is considered nearly eradicated. However, scientists of the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from Gabon, are reporting alarming findings: a mutated virus that was able to resist the vaccine protection to a considerable extent was found in victims of an outbreak in the Congo in 2010.
3D printing not ready for mainstream uptake
3D printing is evolving rapidly, although many technologies are still five to 10 years away from mainstream adoption. Consumer adoption will be outpaced by business and medical applications that have more compelling use cases in the short term, according to Gartner....
Hacking into the average living room …
Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room to find out how safe his home is from a cyber security point of view. He inspected home entertainment devices such as network-attached storages (NAS), smart TVs, router, Blu-ray player and so on to find out if they are vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
$8bn market for software-defined networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for data centre networking. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise...
Westcon Africa to distribute Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless has appointed Westcon Africa as the newest member of its growing distributor network, as part of the company’s continued expansion into Africa. Westcon Africa is now an official distributor of all Ruckus Wireless solutions across the continent...
A business case for social initiatives
IT leaders planning to introduce or extend collaboration and social software initiatives may well need a more compelling business case to present to business leaders, according to Gartner. Gartner has identified eight steps to help gain approval for investment in such...
Intelsat celebrates 50th anniversary
Intelsat has commemorated its 50th anniversary of providing critical telecommunications and video content distribution infrastructure for businesses, organisations and governments around the world. In honour of its anniversary, the company created a video library...
Employment Tax Incentive under threat
The 2014 Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (TLAB) includes a proposed change that may burden companies that are taking advantage of the youth Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) with more administration. It could harm the uptake of this excellent scheme among South African...
SMB customers can reach for the cloud
Local SMB customers looking to navigate into the cloud can now do so with ease with the launch of Microsoft’s robust cloud Platform Azure, now available to resellers from Westcon Southern Africa. The Microsoft Azure solution enables you to either assist, or deploy, on...
Remote working increases productivity
Remote working describes the arrangement by which employees work mainly from home and telecommunicate with their company, says Yossi Hasson, co-founder and CEO at SYNAQ. The practice is becoming increasingly popular with mainstream organisations as the link between...
New Simpana Solution Sets from CommVault
CommVault has announced new Simpana cloud management capabilities and Simpana Solution Sets designed to transform how companies of all sizes protect, manage and maximise the value of business information amidst a rising tide of data and compliance requirements. As...
Vivotek offers weatherproof surveillance
South Africans are no strangers to harsh weather conditions, with rough winds, hail downpours and thunderstorms that stun. With the new next-generation 1080p full HD speed dome network camera SD8364E from Vivotek, worries about the survival of your surveillance...
BYOD security lags in SA
South African employees are using their own devices at work – but in many cases their employers haven’t yet implemented security measures. With the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast estimating that there will be 98-million...
Polio mutation breaches vaccine protection
Thanks to effective vaccination, polio is considered nearly eradicated. However, scientists of the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from Gabon, are reporting alarming findings: a mutated virus that was able to resist the vaccine protection to a considerable extent was found in victims of an outbreak in the Congo in 2010.
3D printing not ready for mainstream uptake
3D printing is evolving rapidly, although many technologies are still five to 10 years away from mainstream adoption. Consumer adoption will be outpaced by business and medical applications that have more compelling use cases in the short term, according to Gartner....
Hacking into the average living room …
Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room to find out how safe his home is from a cyber security point of view. He inspected home entertainment devices such as network-attached storages (NAS), smart TVs, router, Blu-ray player and so on to find out if they are vulnerable to cyber-attacks.