Old records? Made to sell

The vinyl resurgence is showing no signs of slowing and even Technics is making turntables again, recently announcing the debut of the high-end SP-10r, the most premium turntable ever produced in the brand’s history. Global LP record sales soared to a 25-year...

Digital drives operations challenges

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — IT professionals are not always in charge of their own destiny — but they have to make it work. “We aren’t always in a position to architect the solution that way we want it,” says Gartner...

Infor has high hopes for Africa

Mark Davison at Infor Next 2017, Johannesburg — Specialist application software firm Infor has high ambitions for its India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) operations, looking to increase its business in the region five-fold over the next three years. And Africa...

Don’t forget the digital plumbing

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — To enable the digital business, digital plumbing has to be in place, and new networks are going to be needed to run the new systems. Neil Rickard, networking analyst at Gartner, explains that the new scenario is...

Bringing the WAN up to cloud speed …

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Wide area networks (WANs) today are less than ideal. They were typically bolted together in a fragile mish-mash of technologies – but they are expected to cope with traffic that is doubling in volume every...

Telkom doubles data on Smart Broadband LTE

Telkom will double the data allocation on all their Smart Broadband LTE prepaid and post-paid deals while leaving prices unchanged. The promotional offer is immediately available to both new and existing LTE prepaid and LTE contract customers. “Telkom has worked...