Call for more input on new energy plans

NGOs and community groups have called upon the Minister of Energy and the Department of Energy to provide a fair, reasonable, and procedurally fair opportunity for comment on the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) and the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Update. The groups...

SUSE buys HPE assets to extend OpenStack

SUSE has entered into an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to acquire technology and talent that will expand SUSE’s OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution and accelerate SUSE’s entry into the growing Cloud Foundry...

Nokia, HPE expand enterprise IoT collaboration

Nokia and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced a strategic collaboration on Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for enterprise customers. The companies will jointly market and sell solutions for two IoT vertical enterprise segments, including...

Gauteng pays lions’ share of R1tn tax haul

South African tax collection went over the R1-trillion mark for the 2015/2016 year, an increase of R83,7-billion over the previous year. According the 2016 Tax Statistics, which provides an overview of tax revenue collection and tax return information, the tax-to-GDP...

Mild improvement for global PC sales

Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to decline by 6.4% year over year in 2016, according to an updated forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. This is an improvement over August’s projection for a decline of 7,2% in...

Link Africa connects Midrand fibre via New Telco

Metro fibre provider Link Africa and carrier neutral data centre solutions provider New Telco SA have partnered on Link Africa’s Midrand fibre network rollout, which will form part of Link Africa’s core metro ring around Gauteng. Link Africa will be making...