Technology News
Resellers: last chance to make your mark
Resellers are urged to make their voices heard in the fourth annual Channelwise Awards, by voting for their favourite vendors and resellers today. The survey closes tonight (23 October) at midnight, after which votes will be tallied to find out who will win the...
Bhat to take on VMware job
Ravi Bhat has been appointed at the new regional director for VMware, ending months of speculation about who will lead the local office of one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. Bhat’s most recent position was as director of the IBM Software Group at...
Dell de-listing could boost channel
Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – Founder Michael Dell may have succeeded in his buyout of Dell, but the de-listing of the company won’t see any deterioration in its commitment to, or strategy for, the channel it’s been nurturing for the past seven...
Dell making its mark on software world
Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – It wasn’t that long ago that Dell was considered as purely a hardware organisation that looked doomed in a world moving towards an era of “total solutions”, but in the space of 18 months it has created one of the Top 20...
Leadership vital to close aspiration gap
Kathy Gibson reports from GovTech in Cape Town – Being in a position of authority does not necessarily equate to leadership; and this could stifle the application of innovation within private and public sector organisations. This is according to Freeman Nomvalo, CEO...
SA digital retail hits the tipping point
South African retail groups are investing heavily in their online presences as they wake up to the prospect of rising international competition as well as the growing pool of Internet-connected users ready to shop online. This is according to Kevin Meltzer, business...
Apple debuts new devices, free software
Apple, which yesterday launched new iPads and Macs, also took a stab at Microsoft’s business with the announcement that its iWork applications will be free. The new operating system, Mavericks, will also be free. iWork is a set of applications that offers similar...
BSA urges more consultation on IP Policy
The Software Alliance has identified several areas of the draft National Policy on Intellectual Property (IP) as "worrying" and urges the Department of Trade and Industry to engage in an extended consultation period and a more concerted approach. “The draft policy...
SA’s Syspro celebrates 35th birthday
What began in 1978 as a discussion between two brothers, followed by many hours of development of applications around STARS at the time, is today (35 years later) known as Syspro – one of the world’s leading independent software developers with a client base of over...
Xerox celebrates 75 years of xerography
Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s first xerographic copy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first xerographic image,...
Software AG shows strong growth
Software AG has released its financial results (IFRS, preliminary) for the third quarter of 2013. The company's performance confirms that its strategic transformation is producing sustainable results. With increases in license revenue of about 31% (at constant...
Fujitsu expands MDM solutions
Fujitsu has helped enterprises achieve greater employee productivity by enabling mobile access to secure data, applications and communications, with the launch of Fujitsu Managed Infrastructure Service Managed Mobile. Originally launched in 2009, this solution has...
SA to host supercomputer
South Africa is likely to be the home of the next record-breaking supercomputer, with Exabyte capacity and compute power in the Exaflops (floating point instructions per second) range. Dr Happy Sithole, from the Centre for High Performance Computing, says this new and...
Resellers: last chance to make your mark
Resellers are urged to make their voices heard in the fourth annual Channelwise Awards, by voting for their favourite vendors and resellers today. The survey closes tonight (23 October) at midnight, after which votes will be tallied to find out who will win the...
Bhat to take on VMware job
Ravi Bhat has been appointed at the new regional director for VMware, ending months of speculation about who will lead the local office of one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. Bhat’s most recent position was as director of the IBM Software Group at...
Dell de-listing could boost channel
Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – Founder Michael Dell may have succeeded in his buyout of Dell, but the de-listing of the company won’t see any deterioration in its commitment to, or strategy for, the channel it’s been nurturing for the past seven...
Dell making its mark on software world
Mark Davison at Dell’s Technology Camp, Paris – It wasn’t that long ago that Dell was considered as purely a hardware organisation that looked doomed in a world moving towards an era of “total solutions”, but in the space of 18 months it has created one of the Top 20...
Leadership vital to close aspiration gap
Kathy Gibson reports from GovTech in Cape Town – Being in a position of authority does not necessarily equate to leadership; and this could stifle the application of innovation within private and public sector organisations. This is according to Freeman Nomvalo, CEO...
SA digital retail hits the tipping point
South African retail groups are investing heavily in their online presences as they wake up to the prospect of rising international competition as well as the growing pool of Internet-connected users ready to shop online. This is according to Kevin Meltzer, business...
Apple debuts new devices, free software
Apple, which yesterday launched new iPads and Macs, also took a stab at Microsoft’s business with the announcement that its iWork applications will be free. The new operating system, Mavericks, will also be free. iWork is a set of applications that offers similar...