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Data as a sustainable competitive advantage
To survive and thrive in today’s dynamic business climate, enterprises must treat data as an organisational asset, according to global analyst firm Ovum.Enterprises increasingly need to shift the basis of differentiation to focus on smarter and more efficient use of...
How to unlock information value
Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that unstructured content accounts for 90% of all digital information. This content is locked in a variety of formats, locations and applications made up of separate repositories. When connected and used...
Africa looking good, says Inseta report
A report compiled from research into the state of skills development, recently commissioned by Inseta, indicates that the business opportunities offered in emerging markets should be more seriously considered - especially those in Africa. “There is already a clear...
100k new phishing wildcards a month
Kaspersky Lab has calculated how many new phishing wildcards it adds to the company’s anti-phishing database every month. According to these calculations, in 2013 there was an average of 96 609 new phishing wildcards a month. However in the first half of 2014, this...
An insight into phishing attacks
There has been a dramatic increase in phishing attacks over the past few months, with South Africa having become the second most attacked country. This is according to an analysis of worldwide phishing trends. Synaq, a provider of cloud based messaging and...
DiData aims for 1m Lync seats by 2017
Dimension Data has announced an initiative to sell 1-million new seats of Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice, delivered either on premises or in a private cloud, by 2017.Microsoft Lync - one of the most popular unified communications tools on the market - is a rich...
Insights into healthcare information
IDC Health Insights has revealed a new methodology to help healthcare organisations navigate the challenges of big data and analytics (BDA) projects aimed at supporting the achievement of integrated care objectives.As European health systems face increasing pressure...
Consensus wins Ricoh award
Consensus has won Ricoh Business Partner of the Year for the second year running. The North West-based business is a Ricoh Platinum Partner that has qualified at the highest levels of Ricoh SA’s new partner programme and gained technical certifications from Ricoh SA...
Accessible banking is key in Africa
Nedbank launches Send-iMali, a cost-effective way to send money to anyone, even if they do not have a bank account. In its continuing commitment to making banking more accessible to all, Nedbank has launched Send-iMali, a cost-effective way to send money. Send-iMali...
Talent management is business critical
Businesses will have to work harder to align their reward and remuneration process with that of their nomination/talent management capability if they are to secure and retain the services of highly qualified and talented personnel. This is the view of many Reward...
NetApp, Comstor offer hybrid storage
Customers with changing data centre demands can now benefit from an enhanced range of storage platforms, tapping into the newly launched benefits of NetApp’s enterprise-level FAS8080 EX and entry-level FAS2500 available locally from Comstor.The products are a core...
3D printed luxury headphones
A new generation of wireless headphones has been designed and manufactured using 3D printing technology. Design house Ignitec used Stratasys’ Objet30 Pro 3D printer to create the headphones for technology start-up and luxury goods company Audiowings.
Cloud hardware spend breaks $4bn mark
A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures and vendors'...
Data as a sustainable competitive advantage
To survive and thrive in today’s dynamic business climate, enterprises must treat data as an organisational asset, according to global analyst firm Ovum.Enterprises increasingly need to shift the basis of differentiation to focus on smarter and more efficient use of...
How to unlock information value
Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that unstructured content accounts for 90% of all digital information. This content is locked in a variety of formats, locations and applications made up of separate repositories. When connected and used...
Africa looking good, says Inseta report
A report compiled from research into the state of skills development, recently commissioned by Inseta, indicates that the business opportunities offered in emerging markets should be more seriously considered - especially those in Africa. “There is already a clear...
100k new phishing wildcards a month
Kaspersky Lab has calculated how many new phishing wildcards it adds to the company’s anti-phishing database every month. According to these calculations, in 2013 there was an average of 96 609 new phishing wildcards a month. However in the first half of 2014, this...
An insight into phishing attacks
There has been a dramatic increase in phishing attacks over the past few months, with South Africa having become the second most attacked country. This is according to an analysis of worldwide phishing trends. Synaq, a provider of cloud based messaging and...
DiData aims for 1m Lync seats by 2017
Dimension Data has announced an initiative to sell 1-million new seats of Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice, delivered either on premises or in a private cloud, by 2017.Microsoft Lync - one of the most popular unified communications tools on the market - is a rich...
Insights into healthcare information
IDC Health Insights has revealed a new methodology to help healthcare organisations navigate the challenges of big data and analytics (BDA) projects aimed at supporting the achievement of integrated care objectives.As European health systems face increasing pressure...