Black Friday set to test retailers

With digital transformation initiatives permeating everything business does, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period this year is expected to illustrate just how far online retailers have come in embracing availability. And with this in mind, Veeam Software has...

Digitalisation could boost Africa’s ports

Africa’s commercial ports should invest in revamping their enterprise applications and digitalising their operations as part of the multi-billionaire dollar capacity expansion projects underway across much of the continent. Such investments in technology hold...

What South Africans expect on Black Friday

We’ve all heard the stories about Black Friday in the US – all the latest goods at crazy low prices – but are South Africans experiencing the biggest day on the shopping calendar in the same way? Kevin Tucker, founder and CEO of PriceCheck, one of...

Nominations open for IDC CIO Excellence Awards

Technology research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced that nominations for the upcoming IDC CIO Excellence Awards 2018 are now open. With the winners set to be crowned during the 11th annual edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO...

EOH puts IBM Power AIX in the cloud

Today’s enterprises need an extremely high level of performance and dependability to run their most critical applications, such as databases and ERP systems. These are applications that simply cannot go down — the potential for catastrophic consequences is...

The road to an intelligent, integrated smart city

Smart cities are enabled by technology, but there’s a lot more to them than that. “A smart city is about people, intentions, programmes and initiatives,” explains Edwin Diender, Vice President, Government & Public Utility Sector in Huawei Enterprise Business...