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Teraco expands Cape Town facility
Teraco’s Cape Town data centre continues to grow on the back of strong demand for vendor neutral data centre co-location services and the company will soon increase its capacity. The facility, situated in Rondebosch, first opened its doors in February 2009 and is now...
Afrihost to double mobile data offering
Afrihost is giving away double data on its standard mobile data packages until the end of February 2014. In September, the ISP entered the mobile data market offering data at less than R29.00 per Gb and is now doubling its data from 1 December. Any client on a...
IS channel partners awarded for excellence
The top performing regional and national Internet Solutions (IS) partners in 2013 were recognised at the annual IS Channel Partner Awards gala event, which was held last night in Johannesburg. Western Cape-based partner Web Africa was the big winner on the night,...
Choosing the right ERP system
For process manufacturer’s in particular, production and inventory control, planning, scheduling and product costing applications improve productivity and reduce costs at production sites throughout the world, says Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings,...
A cross-section of HR in the cloud
Small, medium and large businesses across virtually every sector are realising the potential of cloud computing within their HR functions. This is according to HR software start-up Piilo Software’s CEO Phil Lötter. “Since the official launch of Piilo in May, our...
Navigating the complex hosted market
The call centre industry is changing at a faster rate than it has for years. The introduction and widespread adoption of cloud computing, improving infrastructure, rising customer support costs against the backdrop of the global recession and the age of the connected...
The motivation behind a cyber-attack
Being aware of who your enemy is, and what they are after, is the first step towards a successful cyber defence. "Understanding the tools the attacker is using is no longer good enough. Businesses need to understand the motivation behind the attacks,” says Jayson...
Dangote grows SAP relationship
West African-based industrial conglomerate Dangote Group has extended its relationship with SAP, market leader in enterprise application software, by signing a deal to use SAP’s OpenText ECM (enterprise content management) and Invoice Management offerings on top of...
SMBs are easy targets for hackers
For the average small to medium sized enterprise, which faces the exact same IT security challenges as large enterprises, buying and maintaining countless point solutions to address security threats in what is really a reactive patchwork manner is an expensive...
Children’s home gets wireless security
Founded in 1959, Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Nylstroom has been caring for children that have been orphaned or taken out of environments where they were not being cared for properly. Situated on 20 hectares of ground donated by the municipality, the Children’s...
Education gets a boost from Microsoft
They don’t wear capes in the classroom. But give them an educational problem that needs a dash of technology, and their super-powers emerge. They’re Microsoft’s Expert Educators and Mentor Schools, and they’re coming soon to a school near you. Microsoft has just...
Electricity, transport drive cloud adoption
Despite its nebulous name, the cloud is solidifying in South Africa with adoption of cloud services accelerating among businesses of all sizes. That’s according to Debbie Pretorius, GM of MWeb Business, who says that like their counterparts in other countries, South...
Countries urged to reserve dotAfrica domains
As the date for the launch of the new dotAfrica (.Africa) domain draws closer, it’s vitally important that African governments reserve names that are important to them. In this regard, the government Reserved Names List for the African Union Commission (AUC) and ZA...
Teraco expands Cape Town facility
Teraco’s Cape Town data centre continues to grow on the back of strong demand for vendor neutral data centre co-location services and the company will soon increase its capacity. The facility, situated in Rondebosch, first opened its doors in February 2009 and is now...
Afrihost to double mobile data offering
Afrihost is giving away double data on its standard mobile data packages until the end of February 2014. In September, the ISP entered the mobile data market offering data at less than R29.00 per Gb and is now doubling its data from 1 December. Any client on a...
IS channel partners awarded for excellence
The top performing regional and national Internet Solutions (IS) partners in 2013 were recognised at the annual IS Channel Partner Awards gala event, which was held last night in Johannesburg. Western Cape-based partner Web Africa was the big winner on the night,...
Choosing the right ERP system
For process manufacturer’s in particular, production and inventory control, planning, scheduling and product costing applications improve productivity and reduce costs at production sites throughout the world, says Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings,...
A cross-section of HR in the cloud
Small, medium and large businesses across virtually every sector are realising the potential of cloud computing within their HR functions. This is according to HR software start-up Piilo Software’s CEO Phil Lötter. “Since the official launch of Piilo in May, our...
Navigating the complex hosted market
The call centre industry is changing at a faster rate than it has for years. The introduction and widespread adoption of cloud computing, improving infrastructure, rising customer support costs against the backdrop of the global recession and the age of the connected...
The motivation behind a cyber-attack
Being aware of who your enemy is, and what they are after, is the first step towards a successful cyber defence. "Understanding the tools the attacker is using is no longer good enough. Businesses need to understand the motivation behind the attacks,” says Jayson...