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AngloGold Ashanti wins SAP award
For the third year in a row, an African company has scooped top honours at the SAP Quality Awards for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), highlighting the continent’s leading role when it comes to qualitative and innovative SAP software implementation. SAP’s...
Ensuring personalised customer communication
Social media is becoming an increasingly popular channel of communication for consumers wanting to lodge complaints about poor service or inferior products. Does this mark a change in preference over more traditional routes, such as telephone, fax, e-mail and the Web?...
Trend Micro grows cloud security solutions
Reinforcing on-going support of the AWS shared security model, Trend Micro Incorporated, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Advanced Technology Partner and global leader in cloud security, announced at the AWS Summit 2014 new initiatives that will help organisations fulfil...
Debunking virtualisation myths
It can be tempting to think of virtualisation as a magic potion that will automatically allow IT departments to do more with less – but, says Warren Olivier, regional manager at Veeam Software, really making it work requires some changes in attitude, approach and...
Stratus introduces everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technology has announced the availability of everRun Enterprise, a next-generation software defined availability solution for downtime prevention. Designed to deliver mainframe-like reliability to virtualised workloads, everRun Enterprise keeps Windows and...
Data centres support cloud-based services
Data centres in South Africa are riding a wave of opportunity as the increased availability of bandwidth, proliferation of connected devices, and regulatory compliance requirements have caused explosive growth in data loads. In particular, the need for enterprises to...
Consumers’ sensitive info still vulnerable
Current electronic payment systems are, in most instances, inherently vulnerable to on-going cybercrime. This means that South African merchants may find themselves exposed to cyber theft if security measures are not improved. This is the opinion of Vaughan Alexander,...
SaaS-based business continuity in demand
Business continuity remains a hot button for all organisations, we just need to reflect on the recent unexpected flooding and load shedding to note that continuity problems strike when they are least expected. It is as a result of this that the provision of services...
Convergence is a must, not a nice-to-have
Local telecommunications consultancy CommsCloud says local companies stand to realise a lot more value from converging their voice and data networks into one, IP-enabled converged network than they actually realise. Next generation converged networks are designed to...
Orange, Orangeworks in trademark dispute
On 22 November 2013 the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down a rare trade mark judgment. It’s marked as one that’s not worth reporting in the law reports. Which is a pity, because it is of considerable importance. The case pitted the international telecoms...
MWeb Business expands cloud services
MWeb Business has expanded its cloud-based range of business software solutions with the launch of SAP Business One OnDemand, giving SMEs more affordable access to highly sophisticated business tools that could boost their productivity and competitiveness. According...
Windows XP: new target for cybercriminals?
On 8 April 2014 Microsoft will stop support for Windows XP - despite the fact that its market share is still high. What will the security impact of this decision be, asks Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of Fortinet’s EMEA FortiGuard Labs. In practical terms, computers...
Spotlight falls on counterfeit goods
As one of the biggest victims of the counterfeit trade on the continent, HP is today hosting a summit in Johannesburg in an attempt to raise awareness around what has become the scourge of legitimate vendors. The company says that the Anti-Counterfeiting Africa...
AngloGold Ashanti wins SAP award
For the third year in a row, an African company has scooped top honours at the SAP Quality Awards for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), highlighting the continent’s leading role when it comes to qualitative and innovative SAP software implementation. SAP’s...
Ensuring personalised customer communication
Social media is becoming an increasingly popular channel of communication for consumers wanting to lodge complaints about poor service or inferior products. Does this mark a change in preference over more traditional routes, such as telephone, fax, e-mail and the Web?...
Trend Micro grows cloud security solutions
Reinforcing on-going support of the AWS shared security model, Trend Micro Incorporated, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Advanced Technology Partner and global leader in cloud security, announced at the AWS Summit 2014 new initiatives that will help organisations fulfil...
Debunking virtualisation myths
It can be tempting to think of virtualisation as a magic potion that will automatically allow IT departments to do more with less – but, says Warren Olivier, regional manager at Veeam Software, really making it work requires some changes in attitude, approach and...
Stratus introduces everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technology has announced the availability of everRun Enterprise, a next-generation software defined availability solution for downtime prevention. Designed to deliver mainframe-like reliability to virtualised workloads, everRun Enterprise keeps Windows and...
Data centres support cloud-based services
Data centres in South Africa are riding a wave of opportunity as the increased availability of bandwidth, proliferation of connected devices, and regulatory compliance requirements have caused explosive growth in data loads. In particular, the need for enterprises to...
Consumers’ sensitive info still vulnerable
Current electronic payment systems are, in most instances, inherently vulnerable to on-going cybercrime. This means that South African merchants may find themselves exposed to cyber theft if security measures are not improved. This is the opinion of Vaughan Alexander,...