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Telemedicine boost for rural areas
The topic of delivering healthcare information over long distances via telecommunication tools, ensuring that specialised healthcare is enjoyed by all – telemedicine – was the primary focus on the opening day of the third Africa Health Exhibition and Congress taking...
Spam – history repeats itself
According to Kaspersky Lab’s latest spam report for Q1 2013, the amount of unsolicited correspondence in email traffic grew slightly (+0,53%) and averaged 66,55%. The increase in the proportion of emails with malicious attachments was also small, reaching 3,3%, while...
IBM opens Innovation Centre in Nairobi
As part of its ongoing expansion in Africa, IBM has opened its first Innovation Centre in East Africa in Nairobi. The centre will help fuel growth and innovation in the region, providing IT partners, developers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and academics with...
Xerox introduces ConnectKey technology
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company and the largest Xerox distributor in the world, has introduced ConnectKey, a software system embedded in Xerox multifunction printers (MFPs). It comes with a set of...
EMC unveils ViPR at EMC World 2013
At EMC World 2013, EMC has introduced EMC ViPR, the world’s first software-defined storage platform. As service provider and enterprise data centres grow to tens and hundreds of petabytes, the cost and complexity associated with managing them becomes untenable. By...
Riverbed introduces ADC as a service
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, announced an industry game-changer – a new platform enabling any customer to deliver application delivery controller as a service (ADCaaS) with the Stingray Services Controller. This new product will automate...
Service virtualisation boosts testing
The interconnected world depends upon software that is becoming increasingly complex to develop and test. With multiple dependent systems, a complete and realistic test environment is nearly impossible to stage. Developers, QA testers, and performance engineers face...
TWT rolls out Veeam solution
Virtualised IT environments bring new opportunities for cost savings and efficiency – but they also bring new risks to business continuity, and the need for new tools to manage those risks, as leading local automotive company Tiger Wheel & Tyre (TWT) has...
Fujitsu introduces LIFEBOOK AH562
Fujitsu has introduced a new multimedia notebook with multiple-touch display, designed to combine an intuitive touch-based Windows 8 experience with all-round performance for home and office use. The attractive LIFEBOOK AH562 notebook offers excellent usability and...
Simple backup and recovery for SMBs
Threats to data abound these days. Data loss caused by hardware or software failure is even more common than malware attacks, so backing up computer data is essential. With words like business continuity and disaster recovery being bandied about on a regular basis,...
Innovation key to big data success
CIOs must realise that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, and that to get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analysed with big data. This is according to the...
Cell C strikes back at ICASA
Mobile operator Cell C has hit back at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) over reports that it owes the regulator R107-million in outstanding licence fees, saying ICASA seems to be “unable to verify its own information”. In a statement...
Security still an issue for cloud adopters
While companies have become increasingly comfortable with the security of third-party cloud service providers, data security, particularly at the end-user level, as well as concerns over meeting compliance requirements, remain top-of-mind among cloud adopters. This is...
Telemedicine boost for rural areas
The topic of delivering healthcare information over long distances via telecommunication tools, ensuring that specialised healthcare is enjoyed by all – telemedicine – was the primary focus on the opening day of the third Africa Health Exhibition and Congress taking...
Spam – history repeats itself
According to Kaspersky Lab’s latest spam report for Q1 2013, the amount of unsolicited correspondence in email traffic grew slightly (+0,53%) and averaged 66,55%. The increase in the proportion of emails with malicious attachments was also small, reaching 3,3%, while...
IBM opens Innovation Centre in Nairobi
As part of its ongoing expansion in Africa, IBM has opened its first Innovation Centre in East Africa in Nairobi. The centre will help fuel growth and innovation in the region, providing IT partners, developers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and academics with...
Xerox introduces ConnectKey technology
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company and the largest Xerox distributor in the world, has introduced ConnectKey, a software system embedded in Xerox multifunction printers (MFPs). It comes with a set of...
EMC unveils ViPR at EMC World 2013
At EMC World 2013, EMC has introduced EMC ViPR, the world’s first software-defined storage platform. As service provider and enterprise data centres grow to tens and hundreds of petabytes, the cost and complexity associated with managing them becomes untenable. By...
Riverbed introduces ADC as a service
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, announced an industry game-changer – a new platform enabling any customer to deliver application delivery controller as a service (ADCaaS) with the Stingray Services Controller. This new product will automate...
Service virtualisation boosts testing
The interconnected world depends upon software that is becoming increasingly complex to develop and test. With multiple dependent systems, a complete and realistic test environment is nearly impossible to stage. Developers, QA testers, and performance engineers face...