Application downtime costs $16m a year

New research from Veeam Software illustrates that, despite numerous high-profile incidents in the last year, enterprises are still not paying enough attention to the needs of their users. Now in its fifth year, the Veeam Availability Report shows that 84%, a 2%...

MTN offers data compensation

MTN has confirmed that it will reimburse customers affected by the intermittent connection issues this week, with data bundles. The company believes that the issue has now been resolved and all services fully restored. Compensation will be awarded to affected...
SA braces for tax hikes

SA braces for tax hikes

With all eyes on Minister Pravin Gordhan as he prepares for his Budget Speech later this month, one thing that is certain is that 2016 is going to be a tough year for South African consumers. This is according to Old Mutual Investment Group senior economist Johann...

Chinese slowdown highlights African vulnerabilities

Global supply chains suffered from growing risk in the fourth quarter of 2015, led by the slowdown in China’s economy, according to the latest CIPS Risk Index. The CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet, produced for the Chartered Institute of...

Durban first with multi-site Internet exchange

Durban has become the first South African city to get a multi-site Internet exchange point, following a public private partnership between INX-ZA and Ethekwini Municipality (Durban Municipality). By contributing resources from its Ethekwini Fibre Metro project, the...

Mobile devices the new spam, malware target

The volume of spam emails in 2015 decreased to 55,28% of overall email traffic – a fall of 11,48% on the previous year. The significant slump in spam emails can be attributed to the increasing popularity of legal advertising platforms on social networks and...