South African team misses third place

The fourth day of the Sasol Solar Challenge saw the eleven teams competing in this gruelling endurance event cross the border from the Free State into the Eastern Cape. Strong winds throughout the day and a particularly challenging hill meant teams had to carefully...

Use digital disrupters to build the business

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Digital disruption is affecting everyone and, like it or not, it’s a journey that just about every company will have to take at some stage in the future. “When we talk about digital, we talk about the fusion...

Top technology trends and the business impact

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – The disappearing data centre is one of the main strategic imperatives that CIOs need to keep in mind as they move forward. “The physical data is still there, we’ve still got them, but the boundary of the data...

Pinnacle moves to reassure market

Pinnacle has moved swiftly to reassure the market following the mention of one of its subsidiaries, Pinnacle Micro, in a court case against SANDF General, Leon Eggers who is facing three charges of bribery and corruption dating back to 2008. In the commercial crimes...

IT fails to deliver on the mobile revolution

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – The mobile revolution is well underway, but IT organisations and software vendors alike have failed to deliver the solutions that will take advantage of the proliferation of devices in workers’ hands....
All change in the vendor arena

All change in the vendor arena

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – IT vendors all seem to be driving different strategies in order to thrive in the new digitalisation world. But the jury is still out on whether the right move is to go big, as Dell has done; rationalise, as HP...