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Tintri unveils the future of smart storage
Tintri has announced the industry’s first storage with VM-level data management support for multi-hypervisor platforms. The company will demonstrate Tintri for Hyper-V at booth 109 at Microsoft TechEd in Houston, Texas. Designed from the ground up for virtualised...
Global Micro makes strategic appointments
Global Micro, South Africa’s most experienced hosted infrastructure IT provider, has announced two strategic appointments, as it diversifies its distribution strategy around its core cloud offerings. Izak Laubscher has been appointed chief cloud architect, taking over...
Fortinet unveils FortiOS 5.2
Fortinet has unveiled a major update to the company’s FortiOS Network Security operating system that powers the FortiGate platform. This release incorporates numerous innovations that strengthen Fortinet’s Advanced Threat Protection Framework, providing enterprises...
EMC unveils new partner programme
EMC Corporation has announced the new global Business Partner Programme (BPP) providing EMC partners with a common, unified framework. The new BPP brings together all previous EMC partner programs to create a simple, predictable and profitable experience for each...
Turning the innovation agenda inside out
In today’s digitally-driven economies, organisations’ entire operating models are popping up and disappearing, and being recreated again, almost overnight. The rise of mobility – weaved into almost every facet of the modern enterprises’ architecture – is emerging as a...
Virgin Mobile crowdsources music video
Virgin Mobile South Africa has released an alternative and fun local fan music video for John Newman’s hit Love Me Again. Created from footage shot in a Virgin Mobile video booth during the British artist’s recent tour to Cape Town and Johannesburg, it features local...
Huawei unveils Ascend P7
Huawei has unveiled the highly anticipated Huawei Ascend P7. Building on the success of Huawei Ascend P6, the new 4G LTE-enabled smartphone redefines smartphone excellence with top-notch features, ultra-fast connectivity, and easier navigation in a beautifully crafted...
Local telecoms space will see change in 2014
There has been much investment into the South African telecoms market over the past few years, particularly with regard to undersea and terrestrial fibre backbone networks as well as wireless mobile coverage, says Eckart Zollner, head of Business Development, Jasco...
Don’t let technology dictate training
Companies that want to drive the maximum return on investment out of their efforts to train users to use new business systems and processes should let their training needs dictate the technology they use rather than allowing technology to drive the training strategy....
Call to root out ICT corruption
As fraud and corruption in the ICT industry reach endemic proportions, there are calls for an independent body to bring stakeholders together in a bid to chart how widespread the problem is, and to thrash out a solution. That corruption is a problem is, sadly, beyond...
Mainstream smartphones for government users
A survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that over 75% of Western European government respondents are using vendors other than Apple or BlackBerry. The use of BlackBerry is on the wane in the government sector, according to the survey, with only 27% of...
Bytes SA repurchases 27% of its shares
Bytes SA, a subsidiary of Altron, will acquire 27% of its issued share capital for R669-million from a consortium led by Kagiso Strategic Investments, which is indirectly owned by Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), by way of a share repurchase. The acquisition will become...
Cyberoam, IP Dimension partner in SA
Cyberoam has announced the appointment of IP Dimension as their partner in South Africa. This partnership is line with the company’s recent expansion activities in South Africa - a security market poised to grow at a projected annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6 per cent...
Tintri unveils the future of smart storage
Tintri has announced the industry’s first storage with VM-level data management support for multi-hypervisor platforms. The company will demonstrate Tintri for Hyper-V at booth 109 at Microsoft TechEd in Houston, Texas. Designed from the ground up for virtualised...
Global Micro makes strategic appointments
Global Micro, South Africa’s most experienced hosted infrastructure IT provider, has announced two strategic appointments, as it diversifies its distribution strategy around its core cloud offerings. Izak Laubscher has been appointed chief cloud architect, taking over...
Fortinet unveils FortiOS 5.2
Fortinet has unveiled a major update to the company’s FortiOS Network Security operating system that powers the FortiGate platform. This release incorporates numerous innovations that strengthen Fortinet’s Advanced Threat Protection Framework, providing enterprises...
EMC unveils new partner programme
EMC Corporation has announced the new global Business Partner Programme (BPP) providing EMC partners with a common, unified framework. The new BPP brings together all previous EMC partner programs to create a simple, predictable and profitable experience for each...
Turning the innovation agenda inside out
In today’s digitally-driven economies, organisations’ entire operating models are popping up and disappearing, and being recreated again, almost overnight. The rise of mobility – weaved into almost every facet of the modern enterprises’ architecture – is emerging as a...
Virgin Mobile crowdsources music video
Virgin Mobile South Africa has released an alternative and fun local fan music video for John Newman’s hit Love Me Again. Created from footage shot in a Virgin Mobile video booth during the British artist’s recent tour to Cape Town and Johannesburg, it features local...
Huawei unveils Ascend P7
Huawei has unveiled the highly anticipated Huawei Ascend P7. Building on the success of Huawei Ascend P6, the new 4G LTE-enabled smartphone redefines smartphone excellence with top-notch features, ultra-fast connectivity, and easier navigation in a beautifully crafted...