Technology News
The business value of VDI
Jacques Viljoen, solutions arhitect at Datacentrix, says virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or desktop virtualisation, offers the type of technology that can provide real business benefits to South African organisations. But what is the best approach for companies...
SlipstreamBI joins Alteryx partner programme
SlipstreamBI has announced that it is the newest addition to the Alteryx Analytic Partner Programme. Alteryx is the leader in data blending and advanced analytics. Andrew Milner, technology director of SlipstreamBI which is already a top Tableau reseller in South...
Cloud cover is good for Africa
Cloud is ready for your business in 2014, but is your business ready for the cloud? This was the question put to delegates at an information session on the impact of cloud computing as a business differentiator held at Microsoft, Bryanston in March. The session was...
Digital Express doubles volume with Xerox
Digital Express has doubled its digital printing production volume and slashed operating costs with the purchase of a Xerox Colour 1000 digital colour press from Bytes Document Solutions and Oxbow. “As a Xerox digital shop we’ve worked with different types of machines...
Personal cancer care with Watson
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM have announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help...
Knott-Craig comments on MTR action
As MTN and Vodacom prepare to tackle Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) in court this week over its decision to implement new mobile termination rates (MTR), Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has issued the following statement: “It is no...
Ericsson, Ringgold in BBBEE partnership
Ericsson South Africa has entered into a shareholding agreement with Ringgold Consortium, whereby Ringgold has acquired a 25,1% equity stake in the company as its broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) partner. Chaired by Gift Mphefu, Ringgold Consortium was...
Philips sets up African innovation hub
Royal Philips is to establish an Africa Innovation Hub in Nairobi, Kenya that will work both on the creation of new inventions, as well as bringing these inventions to market. The Philips Africa Innovation Hub will do application-focused scientific and user studies to...
Chinese firms get innovative, file patents
Innovation instead of imitation has become the policy of Chinese companies, with even young Chinese organisations rushing to file patents for their ideas and products. Economists from Technische Universität München (TUM) and the Munich Innovation Group have analysed...
Legacy Project schools to get connected
Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim and Deputy Minister of Communications Stella Tembisa Ndabeni, in partnership with the Department of Basic Education, Telkom and Intel, will launch the 2010 Fifa World Cup Legacy Project on the schools e-connectivity in...
Blue Turtle, Lakeside Software partner up
Blue Turtle, a leading IT software and solutions company, announced an agreement with Lakeside Software, a leader in system management solutions for the Windows marketplace, to represent the SysTrack Management Suite. Lakeside Software SysTrack provides system...
Schneider Electric introduces Back-UPS 500
Schneider Electric has introduced the Back-UPS 500 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to the local market. This move is of great significance in an environment where protecting electronic equipment from damage due to power outages, surges and spikes is a home and...
The trade-offs of virtual teams and products
An increasing number of projects involve team members from multiple locations - across cities, provinces, the country or even the world. Many organisations are using virtual teams in place of face-to-face teams not for logistics reasons, but rather for financial ones,...
The business value of VDI
Jacques Viljoen, solutions arhitect at Datacentrix, says virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or desktop virtualisation, offers the type of technology that can provide real business benefits to South African organisations. But what is the best approach for companies...
SlipstreamBI joins Alteryx partner programme
SlipstreamBI has announced that it is the newest addition to the Alteryx Analytic Partner Programme. Alteryx is the leader in data blending and advanced analytics. Andrew Milner, technology director of SlipstreamBI which is already a top Tableau reseller in South...
Cloud cover is good for Africa
Cloud is ready for your business in 2014, but is your business ready for the cloud? This was the question put to delegates at an information session on the impact of cloud computing as a business differentiator held at Microsoft, Bryanston in March. The session was...
Digital Express doubles volume with Xerox
Digital Express has doubled its digital printing production volume and slashed operating costs with the purchase of a Xerox Colour 1000 digital colour press from Bytes Document Solutions and Oxbow. “As a Xerox digital shop we’ve worked with different types of machines...
Personal cancer care with Watson
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM have announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help...
Knott-Craig comments on MTR action
As MTN and Vodacom prepare to tackle Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) in court this week over its decision to implement new mobile termination rates (MTR), Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has issued the following statement: “It is no...
Ericsson, Ringgold in BBBEE partnership
Ericsson South Africa has entered into a shareholding agreement with Ringgold Consortium, whereby Ringgold has acquired a 25,1% equity stake in the company as its broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) partner. Chaired by Gift Mphefu, Ringgold Consortium was...