How is the telco business model changing?

The telecommunications industry is facing a host of new challenges as customer expectations rise and the competition, new and old, piles on the pressure. Telcos seeking to respond to these challenges face a slew of bewildering trends and high levels of uncertainty....

Is South Africa the next Brazil?

South Africa bears increasingly striking similarities — in a bad way — to Brazil, says Martyn Davies, MD of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte. Davies says that just a few years ago both were considered first-tier emerging market economies...

Tudortech expands WD’s consumer focus

Western Digital aims to grow its market share in South Africa while increasing the availability of its storage and memory devices range with the appointment of Tudortech as an official distributor. Tudortech is a South African-based sales, marketing and distribution...

GE and HPE ink cybersecurity deal

GE has signed a strategic partnership agreement with HP Enterprise that will bring GE Digital’s breakthrough digital industrial solutions at scale to the Middle East, Africa & Turkey. The three-year agreement with HPE, is the first collaboration of this...

African giants lose their gloss

Africa’s economic giants, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, have been stumbling recently. Rising security risks and political instability in Egypt, economic downturn and militancy in Nigeria and escalating political risks in South Africa have led to doubts...

Enterprise storage shows growth

Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue was up 2,9% year over year and reached $10,8-billion in the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), according to IDC. The company’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker says total capacity...