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IBM, Adobe ahead in digital marketing race
Ovum has revealed that IBM and Adobe are ahead in the race to become the enterprise digital marketing platform providers of choice. With mega-vendors investing tens of billions of dollars to gain a foothold in the enterprise digital marketing platforms market, Ovum...
Veeam releases Backup & Replication v7
Veeam Software, an innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has announced the immediate availability of Veeam Backup & Replication v7. Among an array of market-leading features,...
The Acer Promise for SMBs
Acer has announced the "Acer Promise", a new programme targeted especially at Small/Medium Businesses/SOHO covering its TravelMate commercial notebook range. Customers purchasing a qualifying Acer TravelMate commercial notebook between August 15, 2013 and October 31,...
DVT promotes disciplined approach to agile
The many benefits of the disciplined agile delivery (DAD) approach were outlined at the recent Agile Africa 2013 Conference by software development company DVT’s newly appointed principal agile consultant and coach, Riaan du Toit, whose talk was entitled Enterprise...
Demystifying small cell backhaul
The world over, mobile network operators and solutions providers have carried on an active discussion of small cell networking, an architectural paradigm shift intended to boost network capacity and coverage, says Siphiwe Nelwamondo, Technical Marketing for Aviat...
Huawei helps Poland build eLTE network
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently deployed the world's first 3.6GHz~3.8GHz eLTE wireless broadband data access network in Ozaworice, Poland. Covering vast rural areas across the region, the new...
Building businesses with big data
Africa’s technology and business leaders have in their hands an unprecedented opportunity to surpass their global counterparts, says Ocea Garriock - Software Group technical leader, IBM SA. If we can harness the vast and growing sources of information known as “big...
Getting into the customer’s pocket
The imminent m-commerce boom presents great opportunities to improve business by engaging with the customer on a more personal level, says Stanchion Payment Solutions product manager, Carol Simpson. While mobile penetration in South Africa is high, uptake of mobile...
Protect company data from insider theft
Despite news of hacking, industrial espionage, corporate data theft, data leaks and other breaches and assaults on enterprise information coming to the fore and grabbing headlines almost daily, a shocking amount of businesses – especially smaller ones – are still...
IM fosters collaboration in government
Since 1994, impoverished and ordinary citizens have had high expectations regarding improved service delivery and almost two decades later, one could argue, little has changed. Despite attempts at reforming on a national, provincial and local level, government is yet...
Schneider Electric goes local with solar
Schneider Electric is now supplying the first 20MW of specialised photovoltaic (PV) equipment to South Africa’s independent power producer (IPP) programme. According to James Shirley, solar business manager at Schneider Electric South Africa, the company is also...
Keep on optimising costs, says Gartner
After years of tactical cost-cutting, many organisations now face the challenge of continuous IT cost optimisation after the realisation that optimisation practices are never finished, according to Gartner. According to a worldwide survey of 2 053 CIOs, 65% of those...
Net1 increases revenue, rolls out cards
Net 1 UEPS Technologies has reported revenue of $118-million for the 2013 financial year, a 25% increase from the previous year. This translates into a fundamental EPS of $0.28, up 22% in constant currency; and includes $9-million of implementation and smart card...
IBM, Adobe ahead in digital marketing race
Ovum has revealed that IBM and Adobe are ahead in the race to become the enterprise digital marketing platform providers of choice. With mega-vendors investing tens of billions of dollars to gain a foothold in the enterprise digital marketing platforms market, Ovum...
Veeam releases Backup & Replication v7
Veeam Software, an innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has announced the immediate availability of Veeam Backup & Replication v7. Among an array of market-leading features,...
The Acer Promise for SMBs
Acer has announced the "Acer Promise", a new programme targeted especially at Small/Medium Businesses/SOHO covering its TravelMate commercial notebook range. Customers purchasing a qualifying Acer TravelMate commercial notebook between August 15, 2013 and October 31,...
DVT promotes disciplined approach to agile
The many benefits of the disciplined agile delivery (DAD) approach were outlined at the recent Agile Africa 2013 Conference by software development company DVT’s newly appointed principal agile consultant and coach, Riaan du Toit, whose talk was entitled Enterprise...
Demystifying small cell backhaul
The world over, mobile network operators and solutions providers have carried on an active discussion of small cell networking, an architectural paradigm shift intended to boost network capacity and coverage, says Siphiwe Nelwamondo, Technical Marketing for Aviat...
Huawei helps Poland build eLTE network
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently deployed the world's first 3.6GHz~3.8GHz eLTE wireless broadband data access network in Ozaworice, Poland. Covering vast rural areas across the region, the new...
Building businesses with big data
Africa’s technology and business leaders have in their hands an unprecedented opportunity to surpass their global counterparts, says Ocea Garriock - Software Group technical leader, IBM SA. If we can harness the vast and growing sources of information known as “big...