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EMEA PC shipments return to growth, says IDC
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached 21,9-million units in the second quarter of 2014 - a 10,5% increase year-on-year, and a clear return to growth after seven quarters of consecutive...
SA steady in network readiness rankings
Cisco has applauded South Africa for maintaining 70th position in the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report (GITR) 2014, recognising the country’s ability to use ICT to drive growth and enhance social and economic wellbeing. The GITR, sponsored...
What do SA shoppers want online?
Two-thirds of online purchases are items that customers “want” rather than those they “need” – and the top two online retailers are luxury goods outlets, according Columinate’s Online Retail SITEisfaction Survey. The research study was commissioned to better...
Communications will drive Africa’s growth
Communications technologies will catalyse growth across all IT markets in Africa in the next three to five years, according to Gartner. “Better bandwidth capacity and quality of service are the prerequisites for growth in a number of other areas - and have...
Financial institutions tolerate losses
According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International in 2014, 52% of financial companies reimburse customer losses caused by Internet fraud without actually investigating the circumstances. Almost a third of companies believe the costs incurred by...
With the IoT, everything is hackable
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of actual objects that are accessed through the Internet. These objects contain embedded technology that allows them to interact with their external environment, and other objects. “The IoT is connecting new places, such as...
NAPAfrica reaches 15Gbps peak
The neutral African peering exchange NAPAfrica has reached a record-breaking peak of 15Gbps, making it the largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Africa. NAPAfrica is housed within each of Teraco’s vendor neutral data centre facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Michele...
Telkom agrees to consult on restructuring
Telkom has agreed to further consultation with organised labour through an external, independent facilitator regarding its restructuring and retrenchment process. According to a statement from Telkom, this consultation is a continuation of the dialogue that the...
DiData invests in Oracle SuperCluster
Dimension Data has invested in two Oracle SuperCluster half rack systems with various Oracle enterprise software components, including Oracle Database and Oracle GoldenGate, to run in its data centres as the key IaaS and CaaS platform for its Oracle client base.
AfricaCom Awards 2014 now open
Entries are now open for the 2014 AfricaCom Awards. In its seventh year, the event continues to gain prominence in the telecommunications and ICT industry, celebrating the breakthroughs and most influential players shaping the sector in Africa. Reflecting the...
Managing the heterogeneous data centre
Data centre owners are under pressure to standardise on a single virtualisation technology - but, says Warren Olivier of Veeam Software, there are some advantages to having a mixed environment.“In the modern data centre, it’s applications that should drive decision...
Change management key for Marval Africa
IT service management (ITSM) has a number of benefits: it provides an organisation with the opportunity to improve their quality of service, increase productivity and customer satisfaction, reduce costs and achieve operational excellence whilst meeting information...
Microsoft to cut 18 000 jobs
Microsoft says it will eliminate up to 18 000 jobs over the next year as it works on integrating the Nokia devices business it bought in April.
EMEA PC shipments return to growth, says IDC
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached 21,9-million units in the second quarter of 2014 - a 10,5% increase year-on-year, and a clear return to growth after seven quarters of consecutive...
SA steady in network readiness rankings
Cisco has applauded South Africa for maintaining 70th position in the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report (GITR) 2014, recognising the country’s ability to use ICT to drive growth and enhance social and economic wellbeing. The GITR, sponsored...
What do SA shoppers want online?
Two-thirds of online purchases are items that customers “want” rather than those they “need” – and the top two online retailers are luxury goods outlets, according Columinate’s Online Retail SITEisfaction Survey. The research study was commissioned to better...
Communications will drive Africa’s growth
Communications technologies will catalyse growth across all IT markets in Africa in the next three to five years, according to Gartner. “Better bandwidth capacity and quality of service are the prerequisites for growth in a number of other areas - and have...
Financial institutions tolerate losses
According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International in 2014, 52% of financial companies reimburse customer losses caused by Internet fraud without actually investigating the circumstances. Almost a third of companies believe the costs incurred by...
With the IoT, everything is hackable
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of actual objects that are accessed through the Internet. These objects contain embedded technology that allows them to interact with their external environment, and other objects. “The IoT is connecting new places, such as...
NAPAfrica reaches 15Gbps peak
The neutral African peering exchange NAPAfrica has reached a record-breaking peak of 15Gbps, making it the largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Africa. NAPAfrica is housed within each of Teraco’s vendor neutral data centre facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Michele...