Mastercard connects your car to your wallet

Mastercard is partnering with General Motors (GM) and IBM to enable cars to remind users to run errands – and let them pay from the car, without opening their wallet. The collaboration will bring Masterpass secure, payment technology and Mastercard Digital...

Apple posts modest revenue decline

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2016. Apple posted quarterly revenue of $46,9-billion and quarterly net income of $9-billion, or $1.67 per diluted share for the fourth quarter ended 24 September. These...

SAP opens African Co-Innovation Lab

SAP has opened Africa’s first ever SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL). With a strong focus on collaboration, the lab offers a hands-on environment for SAP to innovate jointly with software solution partners, system integrators and technology partners on current and...

So you want to move to the cloud: what now?

Kathy Gibson reports from Infracom 2016 – Building an infrastructure for cloud is a big job, and there’s no correct way of doing it. There are pros and cons to each approach, says Grant Morgan of Dimension Data. For the experimental approach, he suggests...

Infrastructure at the heart of digitalisation

Kathy Gibson reports from Infracom 2016 in Midrand – In an age when every user has at least two or three devices, and accesses a multitude of apps and services, our reliance in IT infrastructure has increased enormously. Uptime Institute’s Phil Collerton...

Make the move to SDDC, increase agility

Kathy Gibson reports from Infracom 2016 in Midrand – The software-defined data centre is not only the foundation of the cloud, but it helps businesses to become more flexible and free up resources. VMware’s David Funnell point out that there is a need to...