BYOD to become preferred strategy

As enterprise “bring your own device” (BYOD) programmes become more commonplace, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs. “BYOD strategies are...

Netbooks set to disappear by 2015

Once a white-hot PC product that sold tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year. This is according to an IHS iSuppli Compute...

Triple bottom line takes off

As corporations of all sizes increasingly choose to monitor and report on their social and environmental impacts, a growing number of mostly small- and medium-sized companies are going even further: they are volunteering to be held publicly accountable to a new triple...

iStorage signs up Bridgeworks

Bridgeworks, a leading storage protocol bridge manufacturer, has announced its partnership with iStorage Data Networks Corporation, a South African distributor with more than 120 selected resellers and VARs. This is the first channel partnership in sub-Saharan Africa...

UAE, Africa investment urged

More global investment and trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Africa is urged, partly to assist Dubai’s bid for the World Expo 2020. This is the word from Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, CEO of Etisalat Group, speaking yesterday at the opening panel of African...

Backdoor affects thousands of servers

Eset researchers, together with their counterparts at Web security firm Sucuri, have been analysing a new threat affecting Apache Web servers, the most well-known and widely-used Web server in the world.  The threat is a highly advanced and stealthy backdoor being...