Massive growth for cloud infrastructure

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 25,1% year-over-year to nearly $6,3-billion in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). According to the International Data...

40% increase in malware attacks

More than 225 000 new malware strains were identified per day in the first quarter of the year, with peaks reaching 500 000, according to research by PandaLabs. This record-breaking figure represents a 40% increase over the first quarter of 2014 and, at 205 000 new...

Tour de France data available online

Dimension Data is the official technology partner of Tour de France owner ASO, and will publish a daily data wrap two hours after the last Tour de France rider crosses the finishing line. Since Saturday (4 July), Dimension Data’s daily data wrap has comprised data...

me&you debuts affordable data bundles

Affordable mobile voice network, me&you mobile, is launching one of the industry’s most competitive month-to-month data bundles at R300 for 5Gb of mobile data. It is also reducing its 2Gb mobile data bundle price from R300 to R250. The new rates became available...

Applications Olympiad results are in

Two factors are common among the winners of the 2015 Applications Olympiad announced last week: all the winners take CAT (Computer Application Technology) or similar and all except one only changed school to go from primary school to high school. The exception went...

Benin, Canary Islands connect to ACE cable

Orange, together with the other members of the ACE consortium, has connected the ACE undersea cable to Cotonou in Benin and Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The connection of these two stations is part of the second phase of deployment of the ACE submarine cable, which...