Technology News
Oracle announces StorageTek T10000D
Continuing to drive new innovation into tape storage, Oracle today announced the StorageTek T10000D tape drive, the industry’s fastest, highest capacity tape drive, providing a breakthrough opportunity for cloud service providers to monetize faster than any other...
Oracle upgrades In-Memory Applications
With the ever-expanding volume of cost data within and across organisations, existing tools are often unable to perform complex cost analysis which prevents organisations from identifying optimal profit margins to help make informed cost management decisions. To...
The role of design in innovation
In the mobile, telephony and technological industry, we hear a lot about “innovation”. We are told that our products need to be innovative. We are told that we need to be and employ creative people to help us do this, says Larking Huang, country director, Huawei...
System 5 opts for CA ARCserve
IT services company, System 5 has selected CA ARCserve as the technology of choice for its backup and disaster recovery offering. System 5 boasts extensive experience in the delivery of managed backup solutions. The company identified CA ARCserve after an exhaustive...
Turning point for SA e-commerce
The upcoming public holidays in South Africa will be the turning point for local online retail. This is according to Mark Chirnside, CEO of online and mobile payment service provider PayU, who says: “Traditionally, South Africa has always been out of step with global...
Why a mobile workforce is important
Gartner’s technology and business priorities survey of leading CIOs highlights the importance of mobile technology in an increasingly global economy, and the need for executives to travel internationally in search of new markets and potential customers. Craig Lowe,...
Altech, Huawei create collaboration firm
Allied Technologies Limited (Altech) and Huawei have announced the creation of a new business entity to drive future growth initiatives in the enterprise market. Altech Collab and will reside within Altech’s new business development division. Altech recently signed a...
Liquid Telecoms adds VSAT across Africa
Netherlands-based satellite communications specialist Newtec has signed an agreement to provide a VSAT broadband hub and thousands of VSAT terminals to Liquid Telecom, to be installed in Johannesburg. Liquid Telecom has built Africa’s largest single fibre network...
WAPA makes waves in SA broadband arena
The Wireless Access Providers Association (WAPA) is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the local broadband industry, having announced a 25% increase in its membership for the year ended. “The increase in our membership to 164 dynamic wireless operators...
Security breaches often happen by mistake
Employee error is one of the main causes of internal IT security incidents which lead to the leakage of confidential corporate data, according to the findings of the Global Corporate IT Security Risks 2013 survey by B2B International in collaboration with Kaspersky...
Unpacking the business analyst toolbox
Software development company BBD recently hosted an International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) event in Cape Town. The event was fully subscribed and attended by analysts from various companies and vertical markets. The IIBA is an independent, non-profit...
Genesys wins Frost & Sullivan accolades
Based on its recent analysis of the workload management market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Genesys with the 2013 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation in Workload Management. Businesses of every type are realising that they need to consider...
The challenges of a smart grid
It is no secret that South Africa’s national power grid is under severe pressure, and the country’s energy supply is unreliable and insecure. In Winter months the grid at times gets alarmingly close to the brink of shutdown. Power utility, Eskom, is faced with ongoing...
Oracle announces StorageTek T10000D
Continuing to drive new innovation into tape storage, Oracle today announced the StorageTek T10000D tape drive, the industry’s fastest, highest capacity tape drive, providing a breakthrough opportunity for cloud service providers to monetize faster than any other...
Oracle upgrades In-Memory Applications
With the ever-expanding volume of cost data within and across organisations, existing tools are often unable to perform complex cost analysis which prevents organisations from identifying optimal profit margins to help make informed cost management decisions. To...
The role of design in innovation
In the mobile, telephony and technological industry, we hear a lot about “innovation”. We are told that our products need to be innovative. We are told that we need to be and employ creative people to help us do this, says Larking Huang, country director, Huawei...
System 5 opts for CA ARCserve
IT services company, System 5 has selected CA ARCserve as the technology of choice for its backup and disaster recovery offering. System 5 boasts extensive experience in the delivery of managed backup solutions. The company identified CA ARCserve after an exhaustive...
Turning point for SA e-commerce
The upcoming public holidays in South Africa will be the turning point for local online retail. This is according to Mark Chirnside, CEO of online and mobile payment service provider PayU, who says: “Traditionally, South Africa has always been out of step with global...
Why a mobile workforce is important
Gartner’s technology and business priorities survey of leading CIOs highlights the importance of mobile technology in an increasingly global economy, and the need for executives to travel internationally in search of new markets and potential customers. Craig Lowe,...
Altech, Huawei create collaboration firm
Allied Technologies Limited (Altech) and Huawei have announced the creation of a new business entity to drive future growth initiatives in the enterprise market. Altech Collab and will reside within Altech’s new business development division. Altech recently signed a...