Financial services embrace hybrid cloud

The financial sector outpaces other industries in the adoption of hybrid cloud, with the deployment of hybrid cloud reaching 21% penetration today, compared to the global average of 18,5%. This is one of the findings from Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Index Report...

Local data centre tailors solutions for SA

DMP South Africa (DMP SA), the local branch of European data management specialist Data Management Professionals (DMP), will launch its new local data centre on 31 March 2019. Data will be stored locally and the majority of service offerings, including data management...

Calls for laws to protect SA’s water source areas

While South Africa’s National Water Act recognises the protection of water resources like rivers, it makes no mention of strategic water source areas in particular. This is according to Amanda Mkhonza, an environmental law lecturer at the University of Cape...

Liquid Telecom extends Kenyan fibre network to 500g

Liquid Telecom Kenya and Nokia have announced a two-year partnership to upgrade their existing fibre network to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G. This will result in a faster and more reliable connection along the route from the...

AR/VR headsets poised for significant growth

Worldwide shipments of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets are forecast to reach 8,9-million units in 2019, up 54,1% from the prior year according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset...

The rapid rise of connected building automation

According to a new research report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of sensors, actuators, modules, gateways and other connected devices deployed as part of IoT-based building automation in smart and connected commercial buildings was an...