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Neotel achieves MEF certification
Neotel has become the first service provider in Africa to receive Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification. MEF is an international standardisation body that aims to accelerate the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and...
NAPAfrica hits 20Gbps traffic
NAPAfrica recently announced that it has achieved its goal of becoming one of Africa’s largest Internet exchanges, and is reaching a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Established in 2012,...
Seed Academy offers help for start-ups
Seed Academy has opened in Cape Town, and is offering entrepreneurial training in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. There is more than R2,4-million of sponsored training available for early stage technology and women entrepreneurs. Applications are open with courses...
Mobile to drive e-commerce growth
Rampant interest in mobile payments is expected by 2015, along with a significant increase in mobile commerce. Due to this, Gartner, predicts that by 2017, US customers' mobile engagement behaviour will drive mobile commerce revenue in the US to 50% of US digital...
Cyberoam signs up DiData as platinum partner
Cyberoam is expanding in the region and has appointed Dimension Data Polokwane as its Platinum Partner for South Africa. The South African security market has been poised to grow at a projected annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7,6% over the next five years. Similar to...
Q3 results highlight Lenovo’s success
Lenovo Group has announced quarterly revenue was $14,1-billion for the period ended 31 December 2014, showing a strong PC business and fast traction in the integration of its Motorola Mobility (Motorola) and former IBM System x, x86 server (System x) investments....
Connection key in the networked economy
In this brave new world of the networked economy, one adage rings truer than ever: no company is an island, says Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa. Mobile, cloud, social media and machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies are creating connections between people and...
How to be safer than Sony
In late November 2014, Sony was the victim of a cyber-attack that involved the release of stolen data, including yet-to-be released films. The hack not only destroyed data, but it also impacted present and former employees - exposing private e-mails and personal...
Tintri offers support for VMware vSphere 6
Tintri has announced support for VMware vSphere 6, the upcoming major release of VMware’s flagship virtualisation platform. Tintri is a VMware partner in the VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes program and plans to introduce support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes....
Accounting solutions to dominate in 2015
The ability to reconcile financial data, extract reports and manage the process in realtime can be used by businesses to secure competitive advantage in today’s market. Like many other areas of the business, the accounting and financial management discipline is...
ICT vital for service delivery
Governments in the 21st century cannot deliver services effectively without proper technology support. This is among the conclusions from a research study, “The potential use of cloud computing in the South African government environment” conducted by the research...
Untrusted certificates on the rise
The number of untrusted certificates used to sign malicious software doubled in the last year. According to Kaspersky Lab, by the end of 2014 the company’s antivirus database included more than 6 000 of these certificates. Considering the growing amount of threats...
DiData goes on data centre hiring spree
Dimension Data is set to hire an additional 300 data centre experts over the next 18 months as it seeks to quadruple its data centre business from $1-billion to $4-billion by 2018. In addition, the company intends to make data centre-focused acquisitions to build out skills and drive scale in major growth markets.
Neotel achieves MEF certification
Neotel has become the first service provider in Africa to receive Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification. MEF is an international standardisation body that aims to accelerate the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and...
NAPAfrica hits 20Gbps traffic
NAPAfrica recently announced that it has achieved its goal of becoming one of Africa’s largest Internet exchanges, and is reaching a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Established in 2012,...
Seed Academy offers help for start-ups
Seed Academy has opened in Cape Town, and is offering entrepreneurial training in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. There is more than R2,4-million of sponsored training available for early stage technology and women entrepreneurs. Applications are open with courses...
Mobile to drive e-commerce growth
Rampant interest in mobile payments is expected by 2015, along with a significant increase in mobile commerce. Due to this, Gartner, predicts that by 2017, US customers' mobile engagement behaviour will drive mobile commerce revenue in the US to 50% of US digital...
Cyberoam signs up DiData as platinum partner
Cyberoam is expanding in the region and has appointed Dimension Data Polokwane as its Platinum Partner for South Africa. The South African security market has been poised to grow at a projected annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7,6% over the next five years. Similar to...
Q3 results highlight Lenovo’s success
Lenovo Group has announced quarterly revenue was $14,1-billion for the period ended 31 December 2014, showing a strong PC business and fast traction in the integration of its Motorola Mobility (Motorola) and former IBM System x, x86 server (System x) investments....
Connection key in the networked economy
In this brave new world of the networked economy, one adage rings truer than ever: no company is an island, says Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa. Mobile, cloud, social media and machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies are creating connections between people and...