HCP growth highlights print potential

The overall Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market posted robust year-on-year growth in both units and value in 2018, says IDC, with 5,44-million units shipped in the region in 2018 for a total value of $1,74-billion, up 8% and 6,4%,...
Safaricom in world-first 400G network rollout

Safaricom in world-first 400G network rollout

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona – Kenya’s Safaricom is to build the world’s first end-to-end 400G backbone network. The network operator will deploy’s Huawei’s end-to-end systems as it upgrades its existing 100G...

Youth prefer digital platforms for banking

Statistical data portal, Statista.com, estimates that the number of smartphone users in South Africa will reach 22-million in 2019 which is in line with FNB data indicating an increase in banking via digital channels by young people. According to the bank, customers...

WE sees steady server growth

Combined revenues from server computing products sold to enterprise customers through the distribution channel in Western Europe (WE) increased by 10,4% year-on-year in 2018, according to the latest distribution data published by research group Context. The product...

Calling all resellers: cast your vote now

It’s that time of the year when the Channelwise Awards recognise and salute the cream of our industry.The annual awards are based on the valued and trusted opinion of South Africa’s reseller community. “Please take the time to do the survey and vote...

AI and the move to democratisation

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona – Big data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) or other cognitive technologies are at the heart of the future smart enterprise. But enterprises are increasingly aware of the fact that AI could...