Technology News
Service providers need to adapt
The need for greater IT agility is driven by businesses moving to digital business models, in order to meet changing business strategies and requirements in a highly digitalised world. Traditional sourcing strategies that are either too centralised or not centralised...
Sluggish first quarter for storage
The external disk storage systems market value saw a 1,4% year-over-year decline in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). The dollar per gigabyte...
Huawei wins award at Cloud Africa forum
Huawei has been named the winner of the prestigious Best Business Application Cloud Platform Award for its FusionCube cloud solution at the Cloud Africa World Forum held at the Maslow Hotel, in Johannesburg. The Cloud World Forum Africa is the continent’s largest...
Veeam Cloud Connect available soon
Veeam Software has announced that Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, which will be generally available in Q3, 2014. The new functionality gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem, which includes over...
Gemalto launches mobile identity solution
Gemalto has announced that its LinqUs Mobile ID platform, compliant with the guidelines set by the GSMA Mobile Connect initiative, is now available for commercial launch. The solution allows mobile operators to offer all subscribers an unprecedented, single means of...
Data analytics transforms business
Today, every interaction with their customers is recorded and collected by businesses and stored for future use. More and more, companies are trying to find ways to translate these interactions into actionable insights, or data analytics. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of Logikal...
Genesys announces innovation award winners
Genesys has announced at G-Force London that Vodafone Germany, Groupama Rhône-Alpes Auvergne and DNB Bank are the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region winners of its ninth annual Customer Innovation Awards. All of the winners have made major breakthroughs in...
Cloud can grow local subscription economy
While there are pockets of South Africans, mostly high-end consumers in gated communities or high-tech office parks, that are ahead and have participated in the new subscription delivery model curve, the majority of the local population remains behind this curve....
Fintech finances Xerox digital printer
Fintech recently financed the first of its kind large format digital printer in South Africa that can do a five hour litho print job in only five minutes. The Xerox IJP 2000 digital wide format printer, replaces the heavy duty litho press, printing at remarkable...
Seychelles’ VCS wins BDS award
Seychelles-based company Victoria Computer Services (VCS) has won the coveted Africa Operations Distributor of the Year award from Bytes Document Solutions. The award celebrates VCS’s outstanding achievements in Xerox sales growth, services and innovation in the...
EMEA server revenues grow in Q1
Vendor revenue in the EMEA server market has grown to $2,9-billion in 1Q14, according to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Server Tracker. This is a $44-million increase over the corresponding quarter in 2013 (1,5% yearly). According to the tracker,...
Technology shifts spell opportunity
Companies can no longer ignore the significant shifts playing out in the technology space - and how they will impact the growth of their businesses. This is according to Hannes van Vuuren, SWG executive for IBM South Africa speaking at IBM Business Connect recently....
Enterprises drive mobile print demand
As the smartphone and tablet markets continue to explode, and BYOD becomes more prevalent within the enterprise, mobile print subsystems are being integrated within mobile operating systems (OS). According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC),...
Service providers need to adapt
The need for greater IT agility is driven by businesses moving to digital business models, in order to meet changing business strategies and requirements in a highly digitalised world. Traditional sourcing strategies that are either too centralised or not centralised...
Sluggish first quarter for storage
The external disk storage systems market value saw a 1,4% year-over-year decline in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). The dollar per gigabyte...
Huawei wins award at Cloud Africa forum
Huawei has been named the winner of the prestigious Best Business Application Cloud Platform Award for its FusionCube cloud solution at the Cloud Africa World Forum held at the Maslow Hotel, in Johannesburg. The Cloud World Forum Africa is the continent’s largest...
Veeam Cloud Connect available soon
Veeam Software has announced that Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, which will be generally available in Q3, 2014. The new functionality gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem, which includes over...
Gemalto launches mobile identity solution
Gemalto has announced that its LinqUs Mobile ID platform, compliant with the guidelines set by the GSMA Mobile Connect initiative, is now available for commercial launch. The solution allows mobile operators to offer all subscribers an unprecedented, single means of...
Data analytics transforms business
Today, every interaction with their customers is recorded and collected by businesses and stored for future use. More and more, companies are trying to find ways to translate these interactions into actionable insights, or data analytics. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of Logikal...
Genesys announces innovation award winners
Genesys has announced at G-Force London that Vodafone Germany, Groupama Rhône-Alpes Auvergne and DNB Bank are the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region winners of its ninth annual Customer Innovation Awards. All of the winners have made major breakthroughs in...