Brexit or Bremain? Both will impact SA workforce

Today, the UK heads to the polls to decide whether it remains part of the European Union, or if it exits. One of the main arguments on both sides of the divide relate to employment. Those in favour of exiting state that the large scale movement of people into the UK...

Seacom boosts network performance

Further enhancing its network offering, Seacom has added five more Internet exchange points at which it peers – two in Europe and three in Africa. The company has added the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Marseille and France Internet Exchange...

Cloud will be a prerequisite by 2020

By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, says research firm Gartner. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent...
Africa still lags in productivity

Africa still lags in productivity

Strong GDP growth in Africa has masked disappointing productivity. This is according to ICAEW’s latest Economic Insight: Africa Q2 report, which finds that, over the last 15 years, trade and investment have buffered the continent against the global financial...

IS delivers ‘world’s biggest cloud’ with SkyLight

Internet Solutions has launched SkyLight, which it believes is the first aggregated cloud services portal of its kind. SkyLight delivers the world’s biggest cloud by providing access to the foremost local and global cloud platforms through a single portal. This...

‘Always-on’ contactability not always desirable

In a world where users are connected 24/7, some users are starting to rebel against the fact that this means they can be contacted at all hours. Around the world, 42% of the online connected population agree firmly with the statement “To me, it is important to...