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Splunk Enterprise 6 bridges data divide
Splunk, the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, announced the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 6, the latest version of the company’s award-winning platform for machine data. Splunk Enterprise 6 delivers powerful and fast...
globetom wins Red Hat premier partner status
South African ICT provider globetom has been appointed as a Red Hat Premier Business Partner; a status held by only a handful of local companies. As a premier partner which specialises in Red Hat Infrastructure, globetom is regarded as an expert business partner...
Dell selected as flash vendor of choice
Dell has announced it once again is redefining the economics of the data centre and has been selected as the top choice among IT leaders for enterprise flash deployments. Dell now offers customers better cost for storage performance as it begins to ship the new Dell...
Discovery HealthID now on Samsung devices
Samsung Electronics South Africa has announced that the Discovery HealthID mobile application is now available on Samsung GALAXY tablet devices, providing a convenient way for doctors to access Discovery Health members’ electronic health records. HealthID is an...
VMware ushers in new era
By Kathy Gibson in Barcelona - A new era of computing has arrived, as virtualisation, cloud computing and end-user demands come together to drive the software-defined data centre where everything is virtualised. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, points out that IT, in...
VMware buys Desktone
By Kathy Gibson in Barcelona - VMware this morning announced that it has acquired Desktone, a desktop as a service manufacturer. “Desktone is a company, like VMware, that is an innovator and a pioneer in cloud computing on the desktop,” says Sanjay Poonen, executive...
Rural area gets reliable signal
Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim has launched the Freevision satellite service to the GaMphahlele in Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality in Limpopo, an area that has intermittent broadcasting signal. “As the government, we are determined to ensure that we bring...
IDC ranks data protection vendors
CommVault, EMC, and Symantec are leaders in the European data protection and recovery software market, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) vendor assessment and market analysis study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the data...
Nokia, T2T set out to map Africa
Nokia is partnering with the Tsitsikamma to Tataouine Expedition (T2T) to build HERE map content for the African continent. The expedition, which headed off from Tsitsikamma in South Africa on 5 October, sees three intrepid explorers travel across 24 countries in...
Records management site goes up in flames
The board of directors of Metrofile advises that a fire occurred at one of the Metrofile Records Management KwaZulu-Natal facilities on Friday evening, 11 October 2013. The fire was contained by the following day and fortunately no one was injured. The company has...
EOH acquires 100% of Sybrin
EOH announced the acquisition of 100% of Sybrin for an undisclosed sum. Sybrin is a specialised developer of software for the Financial Services and other industry sectors. Some of Sybrin’s products include workflow software, payment, imaging and document management...
Project managers for big data projects
Big data is on almost everybody’s mind at the moment, with IT departments wrestling with ever increasing volumes of both structured and unstructured data. But despite big data’s place as a mainstream IT phenomenon, the bulk of big data projects still fail, as...
Steps towards security for SMEs
The days where SMEs had nothing to fear are long over. It is well established that the size of an organisation is no longer directly proportional to its desirability as a target. Any entity that has information - be it intellectual property or customer details and so...
Splunk Enterprise 6 bridges data divide
Splunk, the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, announced the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 6, the latest version of the company’s award-winning platform for machine data. Splunk Enterprise 6 delivers powerful and fast...
globetom wins Red Hat premier partner status
South African ICT provider globetom has been appointed as a Red Hat Premier Business Partner; a status held by only a handful of local companies. As a premier partner which specialises in Red Hat Infrastructure, globetom is regarded as an expert business partner...
Dell selected as flash vendor of choice
Dell has announced it once again is redefining the economics of the data centre and has been selected as the top choice among IT leaders for enterprise flash deployments. Dell now offers customers better cost for storage performance as it begins to ship the new Dell...
Discovery HealthID now on Samsung devices
Samsung Electronics South Africa has announced that the Discovery HealthID mobile application is now available on Samsung GALAXY tablet devices, providing a convenient way for doctors to access Discovery Health members’ electronic health records. HealthID is an...
VMware ushers in new era
By Kathy Gibson in Barcelona - A new era of computing has arrived, as virtualisation, cloud computing and end-user demands come together to drive the software-defined data centre where everything is virtualised. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, points out that IT, in...
VMware buys Desktone
By Kathy Gibson in Barcelona - VMware this morning announced that it has acquired Desktone, a desktop as a service manufacturer. “Desktone is a company, like VMware, that is an innovator and a pioneer in cloud computing on the desktop,” says Sanjay Poonen, executive...
Rural area gets reliable signal
Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim has launched the Freevision satellite service to the GaMphahlele in Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality in Limpopo, an area that has intermittent broadcasting signal. “As the government, we are determined to ensure that we bring...