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Wipro expands local internship programme
Wipro, a leading global IT, consulting and outsourcing company, has announced plans to expand the intake of graduates for its successful internship programme in South Africa. Now in its second year, Wipro’s local internship programme in South Africa had enrolled 70...
DCC centre offers Dell demos, training
Distributor Drive Control Corporation is adding value for channel partners with a new Dell Proof of Concept (POC) centre at their headquarters in Johannesburg. The POC centre will not only deliver training on Dell solutions, it will also enable resellers to test the...
Times 3 Technologies clinches Sage award
During the recent annual Sage Insights Conference that was held at Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg, Times 3 Technologies walked away with the National Solution Provider of the Year award. This is the highest recognition awarded by Sage ERP Africa for...
Mystery of the Mars rock solved
Researchers have solved the mystery of the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, that was discovered on the Red Planet’s surface: it is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover...
DFA tackles last mile problems
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is in the process of acquiring South Africa-based Conduct, in a move that is expected to overcome the last mile barrier and give enterprises across South Africa easy access to fibre connectivity. Conduct is a last mile fibre solutions provider...
Cloud spending to triple by 2017
An increasing move on the part of enterprise businesses to migrate their IT services, applications and infrastructure to a cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017, according to HIS Technology....
Intel platform helps to analyse big data
Intel has launched the Intel Data Platform, a software suite based on open source technologies designed to make it easier and faster for companies to analyse big data. In addition, the new Intel Data Platform: Analytics Toolkit (Intel Data Platform AT) will create a...
Smartphone sales overtake feature phones
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end-users totalled 968-million units in 2013, an increase of 42,3% from 2012, according to Gartner. Sales of smartphones accounted for 53,6% of overall mobile phone sales in 2013, and exceeded annual sales of feature phones for the...
Good growth for entry-level storage in 2013
Worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) shipments grew 13,6% year-over-year in 2013, finishing the year with 75,2-million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage Tracker. Annual shipment values...
Mobile PC market underperforms in Q4
Despite the strongest sequential growth in four years, the global market for mobile PCs came in below expectations in the final quarter of 2013, according to a new report from IHS Technology. Shipments of mobile PCs worldwide in the fourth quarter last year amounted...
NetApp reports Q3 results
NetApp has reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014, ended January 24, 2014. Net revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014 were $1.610-billion. GAAP net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014 was $192-million, or $0.55...
SAP Africa named Top Five company
SAP Africa has been named a Top Five Company in the Business Software Solution sector of this year’s Top 500: South Africa’s Best Managed Companies survey. Conceptualised to recognise the business leaders in South Africa, Top 500 employs a team of research analysts...
Solving modern problems with outdated tools
In conjunction with the opening of Parliament last week, Patrick Shields, Software AG’s chief technology officer (CTO), stated that South Africa’s public sector organisations face the daunting challenge of attempting to solve today's problems, using yesterday's tools....
Wipro expands local internship programme
Wipro, a leading global IT, consulting and outsourcing company, has announced plans to expand the intake of graduates for its successful internship programme in South Africa. Now in its second year, Wipro’s local internship programme in South Africa had enrolled 70...
DCC centre offers Dell demos, training
Distributor Drive Control Corporation is adding value for channel partners with a new Dell Proof of Concept (POC) centre at their headquarters in Johannesburg. The POC centre will not only deliver training on Dell solutions, it will also enable resellers to test the...
Times 3 Technologies clinches Sage award
During the recent annual Sage Insights Conference that was held at Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg, Times 3 Technologies walked away with the National Solution Provider of the Year award. This is the highest recognition awarded by Sage ERP Africa for...
Mystery of the Mars rock solved
Researchers have solved the mystery of the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, that was discovered on the Red Planet’s surface: it is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover...
DFA tackles last mile problems
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is in the process of acquiring South Africa-based Conduct, in a move that is expected to overcome the last mile barrier and give enterprises across South Africa easy access to fibre connectivity. Conduct is a last mile fibre solutions provider...
Cloud spending to triple by 2017
An increasing move on the part of enterprise businesses to migrate their IT services, applications and infrastructure to a cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017, according to HIS Technology....
Intel platform helps to analyse big data
Intel has launched the Intel Data Platform, a software suite based on open source technologies designed to make it easier and faster for companies to analyse big data. In addition, the new Intel Data Platform: Analytics Toolkit (Intel Data Platform AT) will create a...