Data centres vital as Eskom load sheds

Utilising the services of a well-designed and maintained data centre will help companies of all sizes mitigate the risks associated with the power outages that are a result of Eskom’s power crisis and subsequent load shedding. Lex van Wyk, CEO of Teraco says that by...

Crawdaddys offers free WiFi

The Notebook Company has rolled out free WiFi connections at Crawdaddys in Centurion, Menlyn (Pretoria) and Rustenburg. The company will also be installing WiFi at Tzaneen and at Silver Lakes, which will be opening next year. This comes on the back of the initial...

Chips are up as IoT takes off

The processing, sensing and communications semiconductor device portion of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a rapidly growing segment of the total semiconductor market, growing 36,2% in 2015, compared with the overall semiconductor market growth of 5,7%, according...

Altron’s Venter wins award

Craig Venter, group executive of Altron and CEO of Altech, has been announced as the Continental Winner for the ICT Sector (Africa) in the CEO Communications’ Titans – Building Nations Award for 2014. Venter was recognised for his influence in the information and...

Food security system wins SAB award

The SAB Foundation has named local innovation, Bee-Pak, a compact bee farming system, as the R1-million prize winner in its 4th Annual Social Innovation Awards. Bee-Pak is trademarked as the ‘world’s first flat pack composite beehive system’. The innovation has an...

Employee complacency fuels security issues

Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City – Critical company data is at risk in South Africa as a result of organisations focusing IT security policies and resources more on external threats, such as cybercriminals and hackers, and not enough on the threat from within the...