Open access fibre a right for SA users

South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) believes consumers should be free to choose who they buy Internet access or data from and notes that this is in line with government policy. But this is not always the reality. In October 2016,...

Threats raise the bar for IT security

IT security can no longer be an afterthought as the digital economy accelerates and consumers and organisations become increasingly interconnected. “Security is now the foundation on which solutions must be built,” says Clinton Jacobs, senior analyst at...

BT, Dell EMC partner on SDN research

BT and Dell EMC have announced a research collaboration dedicated to exploring a new way of managing network traffic. The proof-of-concept trial, which is taking place at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Suffolk, will explore how disaggregated switching can create...

TUT graduates get Huawei certification

The first graduates from Huawei’s Authorised Information and Network Academy (HAINA) at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) received their certificates today. The HAINA initiative is a global ICT technology education programme, jointly launched with TUT...

Adapting to the millennial workplace

Kathy Gibson at Lenovo’s MEA Summit, Cape Town – By 2020, millennials will form 50% of the workforce — and most of them will prefer jobs that give them workplace agility. “Millennials are refusing work at companies because of the type of device...

Modern CPUs at the heart of innovation

Kathy Gibson at Lenovo’s MEA Summit, Cape Town – IT needs to learn about where other industries are going and this will help in the development of technology. Alexei Navolokin, alliances director: Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Intel, points out that...