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IDC IDs China’s smart cities
China's smart city market is expected to reach $10,8-billion in 2013, representing an increase of 18,5% compared to the previous year, says IDC This is one of the key findings of IDC’s China 100 Smart Cities Evaluation and Recommendation: Penetrating the Appropriate...
Oz surprises on Big Data analytics
Following a recent survey among 300 organisations in Australia, IDC reports that about a third view Big Data analytics as essential or critical to their business, while 80% have either deployed or have plans to launch it in the next 12 months. This illustrates,...
Blue Turtle partners with Aruba Networks
Blue Turtle Technologies (Blue Turtle) has signed an agreement with Aruba Networks that sees Blue Turtle extend its BYOD (bring your own device) solutions for the enterprise. Ronnie Koch, Senior Consultant at Blue Turtle, comments, “With BYOD a given at most, if not...
Stratasys launches 3D printer for dentistry
Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, has announced the immediate availability of VeroDentPlus MED690 dental material for the Objet EdenV series of 3D Printers. VeroDentPlus MED690 enables the 3D...
Cybervine invests in Riverbed partnership
Cybervine IT solutions, a business technology solutions provider and recipient of the Riverbed Technology New Partner of the Year 2012 Award in South Africa, continues to invest in its partnership with Riverbed. Cybervine is based in Cape Town, with a testing lab and...
StudyApps set to revolutionise learning
Digital specialist entrepreneur Laurence Seberini has launched a new venture, StudyApps, that is set to improve the ability of school pupils to retain knowledge. The idea behind StudyApps is that students actually learn better through testing. Seberini has first-hand...
SOA is a strategic enabler
Technology has evolved to a point where, for the first time it’s the business principles and the needs of an organisation that can drive the way in which technology can execute on those needs. It is through service-oriented architecture (SOA) that this relationship...
Mobile ‘network in a box’ bridges divide
Cellular networks have revolutionised the South African communications landscape, providing easy access to telephony, data and a host of other services. However, while cellular connectivity provides excellent coverage for metropolitan areas, access is still sparse in...
Data drives payroll in commerce
The advent of big data and big data analytics is changing business at bedrock level, and this will have an impact on the payroll environment. Business leaders are looking to a combination of in memory business intelligence and big data to empower them to offer what...
PPC solidifies backups with CA ARCserve
PPC has consolidated the management and control of its backups across a highly distributed computing environment using CA ARCserve Management Capacity Licence, from CA Southern Africa. This licence allows PPC to purchase a single licence for its multiple offices and...
Call for an end to corruption
Widespread corruption places additional burdens on South African individuals and organistions, and the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) has urged all stakeholders to work on putting an end to corrupt practices. SACCI CEO Neren Rau comments: “The...
Attitudes changing towards telecommuting
While telecommuting is nothing new to European and American markets, many companies in South Africa have viewed it with a fair degree of scepticism. However, says Mike van Lier, business leader for IT Solutions at Samsung SA, innovations in technologies are seeing...
New fibre to reach remote areas
At the Great Rift Valley ICT summit taking place in Dar es Salaam next week, Gilat Satcom will unveil a raft of new fibre routes in coastal and landlocked Africa. These routes are already providing companies with fast and reliable broadband connectivity at competitive...
IDC IDs China’s smart cities
China's smart city market is expected to reach $10,8-billion in 2013, representing an increase of 18,5% compared to the previous year, says IDC This is one of the key findings of IDC’s China 100 Smart Cities Evaluation and Recommendation: Penetrating the Appropriate...
Oz surprises on Big Data analytics
Following a recent survey among 300 organisations in Australia, IDC reports that about a third view Big Data analytics as essential or critical to their business, while 80% have either deployed or have plans to launch it in the next 12 months. This illustrates,...
Blue Turtle partners with Aruba Networks
Blue Turtle Technologies (Blue Turtle) has signed an agreement with Aruba Networks that sees Blue Turtle extend its BYOD (bring your own device) solutions for the enterprise. Ronnie Koch, Senior Consultant at Blue Turtle, comments, “With BYOD a given at most, if not...
Stratasys launches 3D printer for dentistry
Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, has announced the immediate availability of VeroDentPlus MED690 dental material for the Objet EdenV series of 3D Printers. VeroDentPlus MED690 enables the 3D...
Cybervine invests in Riverbed partnership
Cybervine IT solutions, a business technology solutions provider and recipient of the Riverbed Technology New Partner of the Year 2012 Award in South Africa, continues to invest in its partnership with Riverbed. Cybervine is based in Cape Town, with a testing lab and...
StudyApps set to revolutionise learning
Digital specialist entrepreneur Laurence Seberini has launched a new venture, StudyApps, that is set to improve the ability of school pupils to retain knowledge. The idea behind StudyApps is that students actually learn better through testing. Seberini has first-hand...
SOA is a strategic enabler
Technology has evolved to a point where, for the first time it’s the business principles and the needs of an organisation that can drive the way in which technology can execute on those needs. It is through service-oriented architecture (SOA) that this relationship...