Niche legal services grow in Africa

The offering of niche legal services in the field of technology, telecommunication and media in Africa is firmly set to become a trend in the coming years. As a result, legal firms in particular must diversify their portfolios in order to remain relevant in the...

Kaspersky patents new technology

Kaspersky Lab has announced that it has been granted a US patent on a system which helps to detect malware modified using packers or encryptors which have not previously been identified by researchers. The technology is already integrated into the company’s key...

KEMP introduces new load balancers

KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of three new virtual load balancers — the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) 200, 2000 and 5000, to the local market. These new virtual load balancers dramatically increases application performance enabling customers to deploy...

SA and IT outsourcing in the coming years

With the South African IT services market expected to reach R53,3-billion by 2015, according to BMI TechKnowledge’s (BMI-T) South African IT Services Market Sizing and Forecast, and it is safe to say there is still considerable opportunity for IT players in their...

Ending server sprawl

Companies face important IT challenges today. Not only do they have to deploy and run their business applications with agility, but their infrastructures need to scale to support growth while maintaining quality of service – all in a cost-effective manner, says...

Fortinet expands virtual security ecosystem

Fortinet a global leader in high-performance network security – announced an expansion of its virtual security ecosystem that now supports Microsoft’s Windows Server Hyper-V as well as the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation infrastructure....