Meeting the challenge of PoPI
Complying with the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) will mean taking a long hard look at your organisation’s applications and databases. The same kind of methodical approach that got us...
View ArticleReal estate platform transforms commercial property engagement
Instant Property is a new commercial real estate platform, transforming the way that the industry engages with properties, tenants and brokers. Using innovative technology and data analysis, the...
View ArticleCommvault leads in the Magic Quadrant
Commvault has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the recently released Magic Quadrant for Data Centre Backup and Recovery Solutions. Among Leaders, Gartner positioned Commvault...
View ArticleSecurity is everything in IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is counted among emerging technologies that promise to transform the South African market. While the opportunity for IoT is young in South Africa, its potential influence...
View ArticlePowerful forces shaping the world of work
Valter Adão, chief digital and innovation officer at Deloitte Africa, imagines the future of work. The future of work holds myriad possibilities for change that business needs to adapt to. In order to...
View ArticleDigitisation changes the game for manufacturers
Digital transformation, as we’ve come to realise, means something different in every industry, writes Dereshin (Dees) Pillay, head of manufacturing and automotive at T-Systems South Africa. In...
View ArticleBuilding options, integrated VR with planning app
Interior design can be all fun and games, according to interior design app Planner 5D. Planner 5D, which has already helped more than 18-million homeowners, architects and renovators to design their...
View ArticleGoldsmiths at the heart of data-driven business
Niral Patel, MD of Oracle South Africa, discusses the role people, data and machines must play in forming the data-driven businesses of tomorrow. Data, as a raw material with a recognised value, is...
View ArticleHP elite Slice available from DCC
HP’s Elite Slice, the company’s smallest desktop built for communication and collaboration, is now available to the South African channel from official distributor, Drive Control Corporation (DCC).The...
View ArticleRed Hat acquires Permabit Assets
Red Hat has acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology, a provider of software for data deduplication, compression and thin provisioning. With the addition of Permabit’s data...
View ArticleNokia Bell Labs work on 5G platform-as-a-service
Nokia Bell Labs is to lead a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and European academic institutions to build over the next 24 months the Next...
View ArticleSamsung, Sony dominate LFD market
Sales of large format displays (LFDs) through Western European distributors continued to grow with revenues up +20% year-on-year in Q2 2017, according to the latest data published by European IT market...
View Article10 000 downloads in 24 hours for Pick n Pay app
Pick n Pay last week released the latest version of its mobile app for Android, and more than 10 000 downloads were recorded within 24 hours of its release. The iPhone version was released this week,...
View ArticleOdek deploys Tintri cloud enterprise platform
Odek Technologies has replaced EMC platforms with Tintri, enhancing its enterprise cloud services. With Tintri, Odek can guarantee application performance for its customers, use automation to simplify...
View ArticleKaspersky launches Endpoint Security for Business
Kaspersky Lab has completed the integration and certification of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business with ConnectWise Manage for remote monitoring and management (RMM) and ConnectWise Automate for...
View ArticleThe rise of security as a service
The constant evolution of the global security threat landscape is playing a part in the rise of cyber ‘security as a service’ offerings. In addition, the evergreen discussion around cost modelling,...
View ArticleSA operational technologies open to attack
South African operational Industrial Control System (ICS) /SCADA systems are becoming increasingly intelligent and connected, and therefore increasingly at risk of attack. “While a major breach has not...
View ArticleProgress releases Kendo UI Builder
AIGS, Progress distributor in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the latest version of Progress Kendo UI Builder, a responsive web UI toolkit for rapidly delivering beautiful and intuitive web...
View ArticleMegaFon demos commercial Gigabit LTE network
MegaFon has showcased the capabilities of Gigabit LTE on a commercial network, with the peak data download speed reaching 979Mbps. Nokia Air Scale system module and Sony’ Xperia XZ Premium, powered by...
View ArticleExtending self-service capabilities of ITSM
Always-on connectivity and a proliferation of mobile devices has had an unprecedented impact on the world. By Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval Africa. Fundamentally, it changes the way both...
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