May 18, 2017
Microsoft will open cloud data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, offering Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from 2018. It is the first international vendor to commit to building its own facilities in South Africa. These data centres will be the first from...
May 18, 2017
The question on how the Trump administration’s policies will impact Africa was met with mixed reaction during a briefing at the African Utility Week Conference underway in Cape Town. The panellists, all leading experts in investment, grappled with questions like “does...
May 17, 2017
Eskom and Huawei are to jointly develop smart grid solutions for the South African market. The joint innovation initiative was announced this morning at Huawei’s Fifth Global Power Summit at the African Utility Week (AUW) event in Cape Town. The collaboration aims to...
May 16, 2017
With the constant flood of emails, phone calls and social media alert notifications, it seems almost impossible not to multitask on the average workday. But it’s not making us more productive and could even be lowering the quality of our work. Research suggests that...
May 15, 2017
The massive WannaCrypt ransomware attack that hit the world this weekend has highlighted a number of burning issues that need to be addressed. Apart from the need for organisations and individuals to keep their systems patched, up-to-date and backed up, the more...
May 11, 2017
Stewart van Graan is joining the board of Altron as a non-executive director. Van Graan retired from Dell last month, having worked for the PC vendor for the last 14 years and becoming Enterprise Systems vice-president for EMEA and emerging markets. This portfolio...
