Active disaster recovery aids continuity

Sep 17, 2014

Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – System downtime is an expensive business: it costs businesses millions of dollars every year, to the extent that about 10% of R&D in the ICT industry is spent on disaster recovery. Avneesh...

DiData offers managed data centre services

Sep 17, 2014

Dimension Data is deploying globally standardised managed services for data centres. Built on the group’s Managed Services Automation Platform, the portfolio manages servers, storage and networks for on-premise, cloud and hybrid data centres. Earlier this year,...

IT spend set for growth in MEA

Sep 17, 2014

IT spending by financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) – Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Turkey – is set for strong year-on-year growth of 10,8% in 2014. This is according to the latest insights from...

Impressive annual results for EOH

Sep 17, 2014

EOH has announced that revenue for the year ended 31 July 2014 has increased by 42% to R7 220-million, and profit after tax is up by 49% to R492-million.

Why cloud falls short for enterprise storage

Sep 17, 2014

Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Organisations are looking to the cloud to meet their future data centre needs – but they could run into problems if they store their enterprise data in today’s public cloud. Noam Shendar,...

Moving past the Apple Pay hype

Sep 17, 2014

The hype around the launch of Apple Pay has raised both enterprise and consumer expectations about the spread of mobile payments. But it is important to separate this hype from the reality – particularly from a regional point of view, according to IDC. In...