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Intervate wins at Microsoft Partner Awards
Enterprise information management solution provider Intervate IT has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg last night. The annual awards honour Microsoft partners for delivering innovative...
Larry the talisman?
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – He may have upset customers and partners, and unleashed a barrage of criticism in some IT media for missing his keynote yesterday, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison certainly seems to have been the talisman of Oracle Team...
The importance of broadband
Over the next 15 years, broadband’s contribution to sustainable development will only increase in pace with its growth globally. This is according to new report from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, and joint initiative of the International...
Channel key for Oracle in Africa
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – With triple digit growth over the last year on the continent, Africa is proving to be one of Oracle’s more attractive international markets – and it is one that the company intends nurturing in the years to come. David...
Oracle offers apps in Cloud Marketplace
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – In amongst a slew of new cloud offerings, Oracle has also introduced the Oracle Cloud Marketplace aimed at giving businesses easy access to innovative and trusted business applications. The company says the Cloud...
Business continuity reaches the boardroom
The level of interest by African organisations in business continuity management (BCM) has risen in recent years. The report of a KPMG BCM Survey performed in 18 African countries in 2013, entitled Business Continuity Management in Africa: Building Resilience in a...
Companies battle with long-term storage
The majority of IT decision-makers in large organisations use manual processes to analyse and migrate stored data. They also rarely delete data, rather adding more storage when necessary. These are some of the findings from an independent survey commissioned by...
Global economy is still in disarray
Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world economy remains in disarray, according to a new UNCTAD report. To adjust to what now appears to be a structural crisis of the world economy, fundamental changes are needed in prevailing economic...
Dell surges ahead in monitor stakes
Dell has moved ahead of Samsung in the worldwide PC monitor market for the first time since 2007, shipping more than 5-million units in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). Total PC monitor shipments for the quarter were 33,5-million units, which was 1,6-million units...
US, African trade set for growth
Trade between the US and sub-Saharan Africa is set for continued growth, as both regions build upon the recent US Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) to achieve sustainable development through increased trade and investment. “We have already seen this increased trade...
Poynting results augur growth potential
Poynting, a leading producer of specialised antennas and telecommunication products to the local and international cellular, wireless data and defence markets, released strong results and highlighted its future potential. Net profit after taxation increased from...
Sophos positioned in Gartner quadrant
Sophos has announced that it was, once again, positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s market understanding, strategy and completeness of vision within the...
The implications of mobile for business
We live in a world with over six-billion cell phones, over one-billion of which are smart phones. As a result, more individuals have cell phones than access to safe drinking water. Within the next 10 years virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones, giving...
Intervate wins at Microsoft Partner Awards
Enterprise information management solution provider Intervate IT has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg last night. The annual awards honour Microsoft partners for delivering innovative...
Larry the talisman?
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – He may have upset customers and partners, and unleashed a barrage of criticism in some IT media for missing his keynote yesterday, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison certainly seems to have been the talisman of Oracle Team...
The importance of broadband
Over the next 15 years, broadband’s contribution to sustainable development will only increase in pace with its growth globally. This is according to new report from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, and joint initiative of the International...
Channel key for Oracle in Africa
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – With triple digit growth over the last year on the continent, Africa is proving to be one of Oracle’s more attractive international markets – and it is one that the company intends nurturing in the years to come. David...
Oracle offers apps in Cloud Marketplace
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – In amongst a slew of new cloud offerings, Oracle has also introduced the Oracle Cloud Marketplace aimed at giving businesses easy access to innovative and trusted business applications. The company says the Cloud...
Business continuity reaches the boardroom
The level of interest by African organisations in business continuity management (BCM) has risen in recent years. The report of a KPMG BCM Survey performed in 18 African countries in 2013, entitled Business Continuity Management in Africa: Building Resilience in a...
Companies battle with long-term storage
The majority of IT decision-makers in large organisations use manual processes to analyse and migrate stored data. They also rarely delete data, rather adding more storage when necessary. These are some of the findings from an independent survey commissioned by...