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SanDisk announces new USB Flash drives
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, has announced three USB flash drives, the SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, Cruzer Orbit and Cruzer Force USB flash drives. Designed with style, speed and reliability in mind, all three drives are ideal for...
Beefing up network security
Thanks to evolving technology, even small businesses collect vast amounts of data these days. This includes the systems logs that are constantly being generated by servers, apps and other network systems. “Let’s take a bank as an example. At the backend, all the...
Fujistu strengthens cloud solutions
Fujitsu has announced new solutions to help organisations to keep pace with change, boost innovation in their businesses and navigate cloud complexity. Fujitsu's improved end-to-end portfolio of services and solutions for the cloud leverage its ICT heritage and...
Sage Pastel strikes gold
Sage Pastel is now officially the EMEA region’s best help desk after scooping up a gold medal at the Contact Centre Best Practices Conference & Awards in Vienna last week. It also won a silver medal for Best Community Spirit. The awards saw more than 1 500 entries...
USAASA under investigation
Just days after the sacking of Dina Pule and the appointment of Yunus Carrim as communications minister, the ministry has been forced to open an independent investigation into one of its key agencies. In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Communications says it...
Mobile rebels find a cause
New research commissioned by VMware indicates that one in three European office workers would consider leaving their jobs if they were not allowed to use their own mobile devices for work. Highlighting the pressure organisations are now facing when it comes to BYOD...
US govt cloud spend on the increase
IDC Government Insights has announced a first of its kind forecast that examines how the US Federal government is spending part of its IT budget on cloud-based solutions. According to the new report, Perspective: Growth and Slight Contraction – Government Cloud...
New domains enter the home straight
The first group of Internet Registries and Registrars has signed new agreements with ICANN at its 47th public meeting in Durban, bringing new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) into the home stretch of going live online. “This is a huge accomplishment,” says Fadi...
Threats increase for mobile devices
As malicious code for mobile devices begins to generate revenue for malware authors, the number of threats targeting smartphones and tablets is set to increase dramatically. This is the view of Richard Broeke from specialist IT security firm Securicom. “The vast...
Happy employees equal happy customers
Although companies across the globe are battling with the current economic instability, employee engagement worldwide and perceptions of their work experience improved in 2012, according to an international corporate study. Aon Hewitt, a global talent solutions...
3fifteen wins MS SharePoint accreditation
South African companies with enterprise licence agreements with Microsoft for its SharePoint product range may have credits for free planning and deployment services for the software that they have not used and are not aware of. So says Jimi Lutz, MD of the Solutions...
Implementing ERP in a growing business
When your growing company reaches a certain size, the time comes to consider implementing more sophisticated systems for management and control. Just where that inflection point lies differs from one company to another, but the answer to managing growing...
Keeping an eye on the supply chain
Procurement fraud is a growing phenomenon around the world. A recent study conducted by ACFE revealed that an estimated 5% of revenues are lost each year as a result of fraudulent activity. At Governance Week 2013, enterprise risk management specialist André Stürmer...
SanDisk announces new USB Flash drives
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, has announced three USB flash drives, the SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, Cruzer Orbit and Cruzer Force USB flash drives. Designed with style, speed and reliability in mind, all three drives are ideal for...
Beefing up network security
Thanks to evolving technology, even small businesses collect vast amounts of data these days. This includes the systems logs that are constantly being generated by servers, apps and other network systems. “Let’s take a bank as an example. At the backend, all the...
Fujistu strengthens cloud solutions
Fujitsu has announced new solutions to help organisations to keep pace with change, boost innovation in their businesses and navigate cloud complexity. Fujitsu's improved end-to-end portfolio of services and solutions for the cloud leverage its ICT heritage and...
Sage Pastel strikes gold
Sage Pastel is now officially the EMEA region’s best help desk after scooping up a gold medal at the Contact Centre Best Practices Conference & Awards in Vienna last week. It also won a silver medal for Best Community Spirit. The awards saw more than 1 500 entries...
USAASA under investigation
Just days after the sacking of Dina Pule and the appointment of Yunus Carrim as communications minister, the ministry has been forced to open an independent investigation into one of its key agencies. In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Communications says it...
Mobile rebels find a cause
New research commissioned by VMware indicates that one in three European office workers would consider leaving their jobs if they were not allowed to use their own mobile devices for work. Highlighting the pressure organisations are now facing when it comes to BYOD...
US govt cloud spend on the increase
IDC Government Insights has announced a first of its kind forecast that examines how the US Federal government is spending part of its IT budget on cloud-based solutions. According to the new report, Perspective: Growth and Slight Contraction – Government Cloud...