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Adapt IT gives Nike data a brand new view
JSE-listed Adapt IT Holdings, a provider of specialised turnkey IT solutions and services to the education, mining & manufacturing, energy and financial services sectors, was appointed by Nike to implement optimised and automated business intelligence (BI)...
Facebook back up …
South Africans woke up this morning to the discovery that Facebook and Instagram have crashed – and they’ve turned to Twitter to talk about it. With #facebookdown trending on Twitter, users took to the social media platform to share their frustration, and often...
Securing the new era of big data
In the digital age, information is the new currency. And in order to get information, enterprises are mining data – and lots of it – for the knowledge that it can yield, says Perry Hutton, Fortinet Africa regional director. On the scale of Internet commerce or social...
Energy detected beyond Milky Way
Wits scientists are part of a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) telescopes that have again demonstrated its excellent capabilities in searching for high-energy gamma rays. In the latest discovery, HESS found three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way.
SA moves beyond 1m domain names
South Africa’s central domain name registry last week announced it has registered more than 1-million active .za domains. The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) confirms that the tally of registered, active domain names ending in .za was 1 001 464 on Friday (23 January). The...
Vox Telecom sale is off, investors commit
Vox Telecom late last week confirmed that investors have taken the local ICT company off the market, having completed an exploratory process that started in July 2014. “The decision by our investors to re-invest in our business is a strong signal to the market, that our strategy for 2015 and beyond, coupled with a thriving ICT sector, is sound,” says Jacques du Toit, CEO of Vox Telecom.
SA-developed toilets offer dignity to all
The greenest school in Gauteng is the modest establishment at Orefile Primary School in Olievenhoutbosch. It is now the site of a breakthrough toilet installation that provides flush sanitation with minimal water usage – and it’s all designed, developed and manufactured right here in South Africa.
Solar panel shortage on the cards in Q1
Expect a shortage of solar panels for the foreseeable future. Most Chinese tier-1 solar photo-voltaic module suppliers have sold out, until the second quarter of 2015, according to analysis from information and analytics provider HIS. Along with the consolidation of...
‘Back to the future’ for world economy
With many of today’s economic trends reminiscent of the 1980s and 1990s, we are looking at a “back to the future” scenario for the global economy, says chief economist Dr Nariman Behravesh of IHS. “Once again the US is a locomotive of global growth, the dollar is...
Digital business requires different response
Digital business success will require organisations to take bold actions, including inventing new business models and changing the way they function, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that, by 2017, 70% of successful digital business models will rely on...
Cloud is the perfect weapon for SMEs
The trend towards cloud computing gives smaller companies unprecedented access to enterprise-grade software and infrastructure services – allowing them to grow rapidly and compete with larger, more established competitors, AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: Data Centre...
Data trends that won’t change in 2015
As everyone begins making their New Year’s resolutions for 2015, Qlik highlights what’s in store for business intelligence in 2015. “Today, we live in a world where the way people interact with data is changing fast and mostly for the better. People express themselves...
Trusted data key to success in 2015
The wheels are turning ever faster in the telecom industry. For every year, there are new and often unexpected developments. As we face another eventful year, industry expert David King, CEO of leading data centre and power management systems supplier Flexenclosure,...
Adapt IT gives Nike data a brand new view
JSE-listed Adapt IT Holdings, a provider of specialised turnkey IT solutions and services to the education, mining & manufacturing, energy and financial services sectors, was appointed by Nike to implement optimised and automated business intelligence (BI)...
Facebook back up …
South Africans woke up this morning to the discovery that Facebook and Instagram have crashed – and they’ve turned to Twitter to talk about it. With #facebookdown trending on Twitter, users took to the social media platform to share their frustration, and often...
Securing the new era of big data
In the digital age, information is the new currency. And in order to get information, enterprises are mining data – and lots of it – for the knowledge that it can yield, says Perry Hutton, Fortinet Africa regional director. On the scale of Internet commerce or social...
Energy detected beyond Milky Way
Wits scientists are part of a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) telescopes that have again demonstrated its excellent capabilities in searching for high-energy gamma rays. In the latest discovery, HESS found three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way.
SA moves beyond 1m domain names
South Africa’s central domain name registry last week announced it has registered more than 1-million active .za domains. The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) confirms that the tally of registered, active domain names ending in .za was 1 001 464 on Friday (23 January). The...
Vox Telecom sale is off, investors commit
Vox Telecom late last week confirmed that investors have taken the local ICT company off the market, having completed an exploratory process that started in July 2014. “The decision by our investors to re-invest in our business is a strong signal to the market, that our strategy for 2015 and beyond, coupled with a thriving ICT sector, is sound,” says Jacques du Toit, CEO of Vox Telecom.
SA-developed toilets offer dignity to all
The greenest school in Gauteng is the modest establishment at Orefile Primary School in Olievenhoutbosch. It is now the site of a breakthrough toilet installation that provides flush sanitation with minimal water usage – and it’s all designed, developed and manufactured right here in South Africa.