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Ngcaba on panel to steer global Internet
Andile Ngcaba, founder of Convergence Partners, and executive chairman of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, has been named to an international panel on the Future of Global Internet Cooperation, to address the issue of Internet governance. The panel will meet for...
McAfee highlights the 12 scams of Christmas
McAfee has released its annual 12 Scams of Christmas list to educate the public on the most common scams that criminals use during the holiday season to take advantage of consumers as they shop on their digital devices. Cybercriminals leverage these scams to steal...
Replacing the human element in retailing
Self-service systems will never completely replace the need for the human touch in the customer service experience, argues Kevin Meltzer, business development executive of Consology. In the late 1990s, as the Web was rising and creating new ways for companies to let...
Sage Pastel help desk best in the world
Sage Pastel, South Africa’s leading developer of accounting and business software, has been named best help desk in the world at the ContactCenterWorld.com Top Ranking Performer global finals at a glittering ceremony in Las Vegas on the weekend. Category runners up...
Businesses must take ownership of technology
Last year, Forrester research issued a report stating that the pay-per-use model of cloud computing, in a scenario where application load varies over time, would always be a clear cost winner, says Jed Hewson, director 1Stream. The report was clear on the benefits of...
Manging real estate requires quality data
When it comes to corporate real estate (CRES) and property management, there is one all-important question that the property manager needs to answer – how much does it cost to run each building? This seemingly simple question is often difficult to answer, for a number...
Off-site backup needn’t be a disaster
It is an all-too-familiar issue: companies experience a problem, conduct disaster recovery and when trying to restore off-site data, they are hampered by the long delay in restoration time. It does not have to be this way, says management at Network Platforms, a...
SA’s HR industry sets a new standard
In August 2013, South Africa’s HR industry received a much-needed "shot in the arm" and achieved a milestone with the roll out of national HR standards, the culmination of the HR Standards Project initiated in 2012 by the South African Board for People Practices...
Virtualisation aids disaster recovery
Virtualisation has helped to make disaster recovery and business continuity planning easy and affordable for even the smallest companies, says Warren Olivier, regional corporate account manager at Veeam Software – but many still aren’t taking advantage of the new...
Datacentrix named Riverbed Diamond partner
IT solution provider Datacentrix has been named Africa’s first Diamond level partner by application performance company, Riverbed Technology, in recognition of its outstanding track record of sales success and its technical and support commitment to Riverbed...
Mobile theft takes more than just the phone
Every sixth user has experienced loss, theft or catastrophic damage to a portable digital device – a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet - in the last 12 months, according to the Kaspersky Consumer Security Risks survey carried out by B2B International and Kaspersky Lab...
SA firms lead in document digitisation
European financial services organisations have made bigger strides towards unlocking the bigger data opportunity – the digitisation of business critical, hard copy documents for business decision-making – than any other industry, according to new research commissioned...
SA team helps winning Dutch client
South Africa’s Aspire Solutions, which specialises in spatial business applications, is celebrating its role in helping blue-chip Dutch client ANWB win the weather and traffic category of Holland’s annual Web site of the Year awards – against competition that included...
Ngcaba on panel to steer global Internet
Andile Ngcaba, founder of Convergence Partners, and executive chairman of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, has been named to an international panel on the Future of Global Internet Cooperation, to address the issue of Internet governance. The panel will meet for...
McAfee highlights the 12 scams of Christmas
McAfee has released its annual 12 Scams of Christmas list to educate the public on the most common scams that criminals use during the holiday season to take advantage of consumers as they shop on their digital devices. Cybercriminals leverage these scams to steal...
Replacing the human element in retailing
Self-service systems will never completely replace the need for the human touch in the customer service experience, argues Kevin Meltzer, business development executive of Consology. In the late 1990s, as the Web was rising and creating new ways for companies to let...
Sage Pastel help desk best in the world
Sage Pastel, South Africa’s leading developer of accounting and business software, has been named best help desk in the world at the ContactCenterWorld.com Top Ranking Performer global finals at a glittering ceremony in Las Vegas on the weekend. Category runners up...
Businesses must take ownership of technology
Last year, Forrester research issued a report stating that the pay-per-use model of cloud computing, in a scenario where application load varies over time, would always be a clear cost winner, says Jed Hewson, director 1Stream. The report was clear on the benefits of...
Manging real estate requires quality data
When it comes to corporate real estate (CRES) and property management, there is one all-important question that the property manager needs to answer – how much does it cost to run each building? This seemingly simple question is often difficult to answer, for a number...
Off-site backup needn’t be a disaster
It is an all-too-familiar issue: companies experience a problem, conduct disaster recovery and when trying to restore off-site data, they are hampered by the long delay in restoration time. It does not have to be this way, says management at Network Platforms, a...