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Intervate, KPMG host productivity event
KPMG, in partnership with South Africa’s foremost provider of enterprise information management (EIM) and process automation solutions, Intervate, hosted an event where KPMG presented the fifth annual Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey in Cape Town on 7 August 2013. The...
Oracle releases Virtual Compute Appliance
Oracle has announced the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance. Engineered for easy application virtualisation, it accelerates time-to-application use by enabling rapid, repeatable, full-stack virtual infrastructure deployment. The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is a...
NetApp announces financial results
NetApp has reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended July 26, 2013. Total revenues for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 were $1.516-billion, an increase of 5% from the comparable period of the prior year. GAAP net income for the...
PCs still popular in the US
Ninety seven percent of American households say the PC is still their primary computing device and nearly half (41%) intend to upgrade their PC within the next year. Among parents and millennials, 54% intend to purchase a new PC in the next year. This is according to...
Social efforts a marketing fail
Although almost all marketers make use of social media - ranging from branded Facebook and Twitter accounts to blogs, forums and paid ad placements – more of these campaigns fail than succeed. Forrester forecasts that US marketers alone will spend $4,8-billion on...
Tax season heralds new phishing attacks
While phishing attacks involving South African banks declined by a massive 47% in the first six months of this year, the start of the 2013 tax filing season in July heralded a significant reversal in the downward trend. According to Yossi Hasson, MD of...
Pinnacle anticipates earnings increase
Pinnacle has released a trading statement alerting shareholders to the possibility that its earnings for the financial year ended 30 June 2013 may be substantially higher than the previous year. Shareholders are advised that the company is reasonably certain that its...
Apple migration boosts chip foundries
In an illustration of the massive power it wields in the electronics supply chain, Apple’s migration of the production of key semiconductors from Samsung to pure-play foundries will single-handedly boost the growth of the chip contract manufacturing market this year....
Aviation giant chooses Autonomy backup
Africa’s largest general aviation agency, National Airways Corporation (NAC), is deploying HP Autonomy LiveVault to securely back up 20Tb of company data. NAC, a commercial aviation agency headquartered in Johannesburg, provides a range of services for fixed-wing...
IBM, Accenture lead in cloud services
A new International Data Corporation (IDC) MarketScape report has ranked 13 leading vendors participating in the worldwide cloud professional services market. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2013 Vendor Analysis evaluated the following vendors:...
The benefits of life-long learning
In the business world, users are compelled to keep learning about new developments in technology, how these will impact lives and what new innovations lie in store for people. Users have little choice. They have to keep up or get left behind. This involves the phones...
Microsoft boosts cloud adoption
The advent of Microsoft Office365 and the combination of various products across numerous plans available means companies of any size, focus and position have a clear vision to save on total cost of ownership. That said, there is also the added advantage of faster,...
Citizen-centric government is possible
The process of transforming government services in administrations around the world has been focused largely on two main issues: technology and information. Using best practices and technologies that have enabled the modernisation of other governments, South Africa...
Intervate, KPMG host productivity event
KPMG, in partnership with South Africa’s foremost provider of enterprise information management (EIM) and process automation solutions, Intervate, hosted an event where KPMG presented the fifth annual Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey in Cape Town on 7 August 2013. The...
Oracle releases Virtual Compute Appliance
Oracle has announced the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance. Engineered for easy application virtualisation, it accelerates time-to-application use by enabling rapid, repeatable, full-stack virtual infrastructure deployment. The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is a...
NetApp announces financial results
NetApp has reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended July 26, 2013. Total revenues for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 were $1.516-billion, an increase of 5% from the comparable period of the prior year. GAAP net income for the...
PCs still popular in the US
Ninety seven percent of American households say the PC is still their primary computing device and nearly half (41%) intend to upgrade their PC within the next year. Among parents and millennials, 54% intend to purchase a new PC in the next year. This is according to...
Social efforts a marketing fail
Although almost all marketers make use of social media - ranging from branded Facebook and Twitter accounts to blogs, forums and paid ad placements – more of these campaigns fail than succeed. Forrester forecasts that US marketers alone will spend $4,8-billion on...
Tax season heralds new phishing attacks
While phishing attacks involving South African banks declined by a massive 47% in the first six months of this year, the start of the 2013 tax filing season in July heralded a significant reversal in the downward trend. According to Yossi Hasson, MD of...
Pinnacle anticipates earnings increase
Pinnacle has released a trading statement alerting shareholders to the possibility that its earnings for the financial year ended 30 June 2013 may be substantially higher than the previous year. Shareholders are advised that the company is reasonably certain that its...