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Veeam honours top EMEA partners
Veeam Software has recognised the accomplishments of their top EMEA partners by announcing the winners of the Veeam ProPartner of the Year Awards. The winners will be honoured at Veeam’s 2013 EMEA Partner Awards ceremony, the company’s exclusive two-day event, held in...
Pragma improves asset care pack
Leading physical asset management company, Pragma, has recently launched its improved asset care (AC) pack. The concept of "product packs" is a highlight of the release. The aim with these product packs is a faster development response time in support of consultants...
McAfee offers free Heartbleed Checker tool
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has released a free tool to help consumers easily gauge their susceptibility to the potentially dangerous effects of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in OpenSSL that has placed millions of Internet users’ personal information at...
Samsung launches NFC-enabled printers
Near Field Communication (NFC) is rapidly transforming the way in which everyday tasks such as payments, gaining security access to buildings and even the purchasing and collection of concert tickets are performed. NFC has its roots in radio frequency identification...
Sophos refreshes appliances with Intel
Sophos has announced a refresh of its network Security Gateway hardware with the availability of the new Sophos SG Series appliances. These high-performance hardware appliances - based on the 4th generation Intel Core processors – deliver up to four times the speed of...
Acer joins Space Geodesy
Acer Africa, together with partners Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), is set to become a part of the only Space Geodesy and Geophysics Observatory (SGGO) in the southern hemisphere, which was officially launched in...
Clear link between social and retail
With the rapid increase of consumer access to the Internet in South Africa, the phenomenon of online shopping has grown significantly in the country over the past decade. Now, in a more competitive environment than ever before, retailers need to better understand the...
New passwords not the solution …
In the wake of the Heartbleed vulnerability, some vendors are suggesting users change their passwords - but this won't protect them from further attacks, according to one expert. Earlier this month, the Heartbleed bug was discovered. Since then, many companies and a...
SASSA to re-issue grants tender
The Constitutional Court has upheld the ruling that the SASSA tender awarded to Net1 UEPS company Cash Paymaster Services is invalid, and has ordered the social security agency to offer the contract for tender again. The Constitutional Court has ordered the following...
PC market stabilises in EMEA
PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached 21,8-million units in the first quarter of 2014, which resulted in a decline of 1,1% in comparison with the same quarter last year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The EMEA market...
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...
Veeam honours top EMEA partners
Veeam Software has recognised the accomplishments of their top EMEA partners by announcing the winners of the Veeam ProPartner of the Year Awards. The winners will be honoured at Veeam’s 2013 EMEA Partner Awards ceremony, the company’s exclusive two-day event, held in...
Pragma improves asset care pack
Leading physical asset management company, Pragma, has recently launched its improved asset care (AC) pack. The concept of "product packs" is a highlight of the release. The aim with these product packs is a faster development response time in support of consultants...
McAfee offers free Heartbleed Checker tool
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has released a free tool to help consumers easily gauge their susceptibility to the potentially dangerous effects of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in OpenSSL that has placed millions of Internet users’ personal information at...
Samsung launches NFC-enabled printers
Near Field Communication (NFC) is rapidly transforming the way in which everyday tasks such as payments, gaining security access to buildings and even the purchasing and collection of concert tickets are performed. NFC has its roots in radio frequency identification...
Sophos refreshes appliances with Intel
Sophos has announced a refresh of its network Security Gateway hardware with the availability of the new Sophos SG Series appliances. These high-performance hardware appliances - based on the 4th generation Intel Core processors – deliver up to four times the speed of...
Acer joins Space Geodesy
Acer Africa, together with partners Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), is set to become a part of the only Space Geodesy and Geophysics Observatory (SGGO) in the southern hemisphere, which was officially launched in...
Clear link between social and retail
With the rapid increase of consumer access to the Internet in South Africa, the phenomenon of online shopping has grown significantly in the country over the past decade. Now, in a more competitive environment than ever before, retailers need to better understand the...