Technology News
Marketers positive about IT budget increases
In a recent survey of senior marketers at technology companies, the International Data Corporation (IDC) CMO Advisory Service found that two-thirds are expecting budget increases for 2014. Additionally, IDC forecasts that marketing budgets within the technology...
Africa booms for Orange Money with 10m users
Orange Money has signed up 10-million customers in Africa. Stéphane Richard, chairman and CEO of Orange, gave an Orange Money credit to the company’s 10-millionth customer, Kanny G, who opened an account in Dakar, Senegal. “Orange Money is a revolution in terms of...
Retail banking drives Africa’s growth
DHL is seeing robust growth from its financial services customers in Africa and, while the banking sector continues to play a significant role in economic development for the continent, the sector also fuelled DHL’s expansion into Africa in 1978 when global banks...
Riverbed announces SteelFusion 3.0
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0 (formerly known as Riverbed Granite), the first branch converged infrastructure that centralises data in the data centre and delivers local performance and...
Skilled programmers in short supply
More than ever before in history, business needs people who can program. Software is becoming a large part of ordinary life, so much so that entire industries and job descriptions are being supplanted by code. Or as a Netscape founder put it, "software is eating the...
UASC improves IT efficiency with Quintica
When the United Arab Shipping Company identified a need to better manage and support its mission critical applications, such as TRUST, its integrated Liner Management software, the company turned to Quintica to help it map a path to efficiency. The United Arab...
DAC helps chrome supplier upgrade SharePoint
Dac Systems has ensured that a leading listed supplier to the global ferrochrome market has benefited from a large-scale SharePoint Deployment Upgrade as an integral part of the migration to SharePoint 2013. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) is an...
Fedhealth grows customer care with LiveChat
Building on the increased usage of social media platforms which are now a feature of the evolving medical scheme landscape, Fedhealth Medical Scheme is the first scheme to offer a LiveChat option on their Web site. One of the big frustrations in modern day life must...
Integrating cloud and legacy environments
The past few years have seen a fundamental shift in enterprise computing and technology. Although businesses still rely heavily on their internal data centres for many different functions, cloud now plays a major role in the ways in which data is used, stored and...
Kaspersky plans enterprise market expansion
On 15 April 2014, Kaspersky Lab revealed its vision of enterprise security at the company’s annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, USA. The event focused on how enterprise IT security realities affected businesses worldwide and featured commentary and panel...
PC sales to drop by 6% in 2014
The global decline in sales of laptops and desktops is set to continue during 2014, both locally and overseas. This is according to Christopher Riley, CEO of The Notebook Company, who comments: “We are seeing a constant decline – a decline that will not abate. Laptop...
Revised Nokia acquisition finalised soon
Microsoft expects to complete its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business this week. Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice-president: Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft, writes on the official company blog that the transaction should be...
IS plans more fibre infrastructure rollouts
Pan-African telecommunications provider Internet Solutions (IS) has made major investments in its South African fibre infrastructure, and plans to further its rollout in the coming months. “South Africa’s connectivity infrastructure has seen incredible growth in the...
Marketers positive about IT budget increases
In a recent survey of senior marketers at technology companies, the International Data Corporation (IDC) CMO Advisory Service found that two-thirds are expecting budget increases for 2014. Additionally, IDC forecasts that marketing budgets within the technology...
Africa booms for Orange Money with 10m users
Orange Money has signed up 10-million customers in Africa. Stéphane Richard, chairman and CEO of Orange, gave an Orange Money credit to the company’s 10-millionth customer, Kanny G, who opened an account in Dakar, Senegal. “Orange Money is a revolution in terms of...
Retail banking drives Africa’s growth
DHL is seeing robust growth from its financial services customers in Africa and, while the banking sector continues to play a significant role in economic development for the continent, the sector also fuelled DHL’s expansion into Africa in 1978 when global banks...
Riverbed announces SteelFusion 3.0
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0 (formerly known as Riverbed Granite), the first branch converged infrastructure that centralises data in the data centre and delivers local performance and...
Skilled programmers in short supply
More than ever before in history, business needs people who can program. Software is becoming a large part of ordinary life, so much so that entire industries and job descriptions are being supplanted by code. Or as a Netscape founder put it, "software is eating the...
UASC improves IT efficiency with Quintica
When the United Arab Shipping Company identified a need to better manage and support its mission critical applications, such as TRUST, its integrated Liner Management software, the company turned to Quintica to help it map a path to efficiency. The United Arab...
DAC helps chrome supplier upgrade SharePoint
Dac Systems has ensured that a leading listed supplier to the global ferrochrome market has benefited from a large-scale SharePoint Deployment Upgrade as an integral part of the migration to SharePoint 2013. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) is an...