Tucci opens up on EMC’s sale

Oct 13, 2015

One of the longest-serving chief executives in IT, Joe Tucci – CEO of EMC – has revealed some of his feelings, hopes and aspirations around the sale of the company to Dell for $67-billion. The full blogpost from Tucci is as follows: This is a bittersweet...
Corruption risk deters investors

Corruption risk deters investors

Oct 13, 2015

Fifty five percent of South African companies surveyed by Control Risks for its annual “International attitudes to corruption” survey state that they avoid certain countries if the corruption risk is perceived to be too high. The survey also found that...

Pros and Cons to Dell/EMC merger

Oct 13, 2015

The record $67-billion definitive agreement for Dell to buy EMC is a deal that could significantly shake up the technology market because, while other large tech companies are divesting or becoming smaller, Dell and EMC together will be creating a mega-technology company.

EY names entrepreneurial finalists

Oct 13, 2015

EY has announced the finalists for the Southern Africa Chapter of the World Entrepreneur Award for 2015 in the Master, Exceptional and Emerging categories. The award programme is marking its 18th anniversary of recognising outstanding entrepreneurs for their vision,...

IS breaks record at rAge

Oct 13, 2015

Internet Solutions (IS) has once again delivered a record-breaking Internet connection to more than 2 100 LAN gamers at this year’s rAge – a massive 6.5 Gigabit per second (Gbps) connection which marked a 25% increase on the speeds provided last year....

Bringing together private and public cloud

Oct 13, 2015

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld in Barcelona – Bringing together the best of private and public clouds in a secure and managed way allows companies to achieve true flexibility, agility and scalability. The unified hybrid cloud vision does this, says Bill...