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Sage Netcash aligns with Sage Pay
Sage Netcash has announced that, as from 1 October 2013, it will align with Sage Pay, a leader in the payments industry in the UK and mainland Europe.Sage has identified the payments business as a strategic priority, and the brand alignment forms part a planned move...
Broadlink aims to launch satellite hub
Broadlink has celebrated its sixth year in the telecommunications industry by announcing plans to launch a satellite hub in 2014, situated at the Teraco Data Environment in Isando, Johannesburg. “Coinciding with our sixth birthday is the announcement of our plans to...
Moving Microsoft Exchange to the cloud
Organisations wanting to move Microsoft Exchange to a private or public cloud need to consider five best practices if they want the transition to be easy and successful. That’s according to Andrew Crosley, Dimension Data’s General Manager for Microsoft, who says while...
Oracle announces new server
Oracle has announced the SPARC M6-32 server and SuperCluster M6-32 engineered system, based on new 3.6 GHz, 12-core SPARC M6 processors. Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 running Oracle Solaris demonstrates five times better price/performance than the IBM Power 795 based...
Epson distributor Raluca exceeds targets
Raluca, the first 100% black, woman-owned Epson distributor, has exceeded its sales targets in its first year of operation since its appointment as a specialist distributor of Epson’s large format, commercial and industrial printer and consumable ranges in September...
HP unveils HP OneView
HP recently unveiled HP OneView, an industry-first, consumer-inspired infrastructure management platform for HP Converged Infrastructure that simplifies the most basic steps that underlay all data centre processes - allowing IT teams to dramatically improve operations...
iPads in education: where to draw the line
Apple's iPad is rapidly finding its way into education systems all over the world. Schools in countries as diverse as South Korea, the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and the US are using the best-selling tablet to supplement, and in some cases even entirely replace,...
EMC doubles channel partner revenue
EMC Southern Africa is positioning itself as a vendor of choice for the channel through an aggressive business partner programme that drives most of its sales through a network of resellers, systems integrators and consulting partners. Over the past seven years, EMC...
Westcon-Comztek wins Microsoft award
Westcon-Comztek has once again come out on top at the recent Microsoft Partner Awards raking in the award as Volume Licensing and Cloud Distributor of the year for 2013. The award ceremony, held in Johannesburg at the end of September, acknowledges and recognises the...
Racks save SMBs space
When it comes to IT equipment, most small medium businesses (SMBs) experience the same problem. Cables all over the place, servers taking up valuable office space, and other equipment scattered across the floor and on desks as space permits. Other than looking untidy,...
EMC leads in storage shipment
IDC has named EMC the number one storage solution shipped in 2012 for major enterprise applications in its annual Storage User Demand Study. EMC was a leader in storage solutions deployed in Oracle environments for the second consecutive year, and in 2012 shipped...
FNB offers unlocked Note 3
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is now part of FNB's smart device offering. The FNB Samsung Note 3s are unlocked and can be used with any SIM card. It is available at R365 per month over 24 months, with no additional interest, fees or charges. “We are thrilled to give our...
BlackBerry 10 receives NATO approval
NATO has approved BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and BlackBerry 10 smartphones for classified communications up to the level of “restricted”. The certification allows agencies in NATO countries in all 28 member states across North America and Europe to use...
Sage Netcash aligns with Sage Pay
Sage Netcash has announced that, as from 1 October 2013, it will align with Sage Pay, a leader in the payments industry in the UK and mainland Europe.Sage has identified the payments business as a strategic priority, and the brand alignment forms part a planned move...
Broadlink aims to launch satellite hub
Broadlink has celebrated its sixth year in the telecommunications industry by announcing plans to launch a satellite hub in 2014, situated at the Teraco Data Environment in Isando, Johannesburg. “Coinciding with our sixth birthday is the announcement of our plans to...
Moving Microsoft Exchange to the cloud
Organisations wanting to move Microsoft Exchange to a private or public cloud need to consider five best practices if they want the transition to be easy and successful. That’s according to Andrew Crosley, Dimension Data’s General Manager for Microsoft, who says while...
Oracle announces new server
Oracle has announced the SPARC M6-32 server and SuperCluster M6-32 engineered system, based on new 3.6 GHz, 12-core SPARC M6 processors. Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 running Oracle Solaris demonstrates five times better price/performance than the IBM Power 795 based...
Epson distributor Raluca exceeds targets
Raluca, the first 100% black, woman-owned Epson distributor, has exceeded its sales targets in its first year of operation since its appointment as a specialist distributor of Epson’s large format, commercial and industrial printer and consumable ranges in September...
HP unveils HP OneView
HP recently unveiled HP OneView, an industry-first, consumer-inspired infrastructure management platform for HP Converged Infrastructure that simplifies the most basic steps that underlay all data centre processes - allowing IT teams to dramatically improve operations...
iPads in education: where to draw the line
Apple's iPad is rapidly finding its way into education systems all over the world. Schools in countries as diverse as South Korea, the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and the US are using the best-selling tablet to supplement, and in some cases even entirely replace,...