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Cannon offers modular data centres
Cannon Technologies Africa is offering a new range of innovative ISO container-sized modular data centres that provide clients with full UPS facilities - as well as hot and cold aisle functionality - in a choice of 6m, 12m and 13,5m sizes. According to Mark Awdas,...
Westcon-Comztek offers Avaya Video
Value-added distributor Westcon-Comztek has been appointed as an official distributor of Avaya’s Scopia video conferencing solutions. The partnership extends South Africa as well as Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique,...
45% of Nigerian enterprises to deploy UCC
More than 45% of enterprises in Nigeria are planning to deploy unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions in the next three years, according to the latest research from global IT market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing...
Check Point, VMware secure private cloud
Check Point Software Technologies and VMware have announced a collaboration in which they will automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with...
Links between piracy, malware come to light
Rather than hacking consumer PCs as well as home- and business networks, cybercriminals are starting to rely upon the software piracy industry to leave the “security backdoor” open, enabling them to more easily steal identities, passwords and banking login details. A...
Affordable limbs by Robohand
Robohand, created by Richard van As, has been voted as the best prototype design by visitors to the Design Indaba. The prototype creates 3D-printed and aluminium CNC-machined, anatomically driven, custom fitted, mechanical devices to help limb different individuals as...
PC sales continue their decline in Q4
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market continued to decline during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by International Data Corporation (IDC). PC shipments into the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey declined 14,3% year on year...
September launch for Xbox One console
Microsoft’s Xbox One will be launched in South Africa in September 2014. This was confirmed yesterday by distributor Westcon-Comztek. Touted as more than just a gaming console, the Xbox One promoted by Microsoft as the ultimate all-in-one entertainment system built...
Technology to help make the roads safer
University of Cape Town researcher, Dr Rahul Jobanputra, says the alarming number of road traffic fatalities in South Africa moved him to focus his recent PhD study on alternative ways of making the country’s roads safer. His thesis, An Investigation into the...
Schools get biometric attendance systems
The Department of Basic Education is equipping 24 000 schools with biometric clocking devices in a bid to solve the challenge of teacher absenteeism, highlighting the growing trend for organisations to utilise realtime statistics to improve efficiencies and security....
Solve broadband challenges to leverage cloud
Next-generation broadband and cloud-based ICT services are two of the top emerging trends in the telecoms, media and technology space, according to Ovum Research. These two trends are intrinsically interlinked, as the cloud requires fast, efficient and available...
Biometric protection the future of security
Biometric identification systems have grown in popularity as more company use fingerprint, face, iris or voice recognition as part of their risk management strategies, says Marius Coetzee, MD at Ideco Biometrics.A market that was once dominated by fingerprint...
execMobile saves customers R10-million
South African business travellers heading abroad can now work securely wherever they want, without having to worry about exhoribant data charges. The PocketWiFi device from execMobile has, in only one year, saved its customers more than R10-million. “The technology...
Cannon offers modular data centres
Cannon Technologies Africa is offering a new range of innovative ISO container-sized modular data centres that provide clients with full UPS facilities - as well as hot and cold aisle functionality - in a choice of 6m, 12m and 13,5m sizes. According to Mark Awdas,...
Westcon-Comztek offers Avaya Video
Value-added distributor Westcon-Comztek has been appointed as an official distributor of Avaya’s Scopia video conferencing solutions. The partnership extends South Africa as well as Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique,...
45% of Nigerian enterprises to deploy UCC
More than 45% of enterprises in Nigeria are planning to deploy unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions in the next three years, according to the latest research from global IT market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing...
Check Point, VMware secure private cloud
Check Point Software Technologies and VMware have announced a collaboration in which they will automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with...
Links between piracy, malware come to light
Rather than hacking consumer PCs as well as home- and business networks, cybercriminals are starting to rely upon the software piracy industry to leave the “security backdoor” open, enabling them to more easily steal identities, passwords and banking login details. A...
Affordable limbs by Robohand
Robohand, created by Richard van As, has been voted as the best prototype design by visitors to the Design Indaba. The prototype creates 3D-printed and aluminium CNC-machined, anatomically driven, custom fitted, mechanical devices to help limb different individuals as...
PC sales continue their decline in Q4
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market continued to decline during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by International Data Corporation (IDC). PC shipments into the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey declined 14,3% year on year...