Wikipedia celebrates its 15th birthday

Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopaedia, will turn 15 this week. To commemorate the occasion, South African editors and contributors will meet in Johannesburg and Cape Town to join a global series of events led by the Wikimedia Foundation. In South Africa,...
Staff crucial for business success

Staff crucial for business success

Attracting and retaining the right staff is crucial for success in the new year. According to Kay Vittee, CEO of Quest Staffing Solutions, staff are undoubtedly one of a company’s biggest investments and have a direct impact on every aspect of the business....

Cloud traffic set to quadruple by 2019

Cloud traffic in the Middle East and Africa (including South Africa) is forecase to more than quadruple by the end of 2019 – and, 2019, 83% of all MEA data centre traffic will come from the cloud. These are among the findings from the fifth annual Cisco Global...

Pinnacle secures majority stake in Datacentrix

South Africa’s largest IT distributor, Pinnacle, has confirmed that it is now the majority shareholder in one of the country’s premier systems integrators Datacentrix. In November last year, Pinnacle notified Datacentrix shareholders of a mandatory offer...

CIOs need to be more innovative

The job of CIO is becoming increasingly difficult as we move further into the 3rd Platform era – but pressure to keep costs down, maintain a consistent infrastructure, and to innovate has left many CIOs flat-footed, playing a catch-up game trying to integrate...

Silvertree to invest $10m in African startups

Cape Town-based consumer-focused Internet platform, Silvertree Internet Holdings (SIH), has recorded 330% growth per annum for 2015 to more than $10-million in revenue – its strongest year since operations began in 2013. Following this news, the company’s...