Video conferencing could overtake e-mail

There is a very good chance that the world is about to experience a mini-revolution in the video technology marketplace –an advancement in transforming an already amazing collaboration tool into something far more beneficial to businesses, says Nicolette Kruger,...

Ensuring effective e-mail communication

We all know that sinking feeling when you follow up on an outstanding deadline (that’s now overdue and urgent) and the person says, “I didn’t receive the e-mail”. While e-mails are probably less likely to disappear into the ether than they are to be...

Multi-tenancy in the MSP arena

In the managed service provider (MSP) arena, multi-tenancy is becoming increasingly popular. More and more, MSPs are starting to use converged infrastructures to support multiple customers on one integrated platform, says Johan Scheepers, systems engineering manager...

CMH converges networks, cuts costs

Retail motor group CMH has cut its telecoms costs and increased its network capacity fourfold by migrating to a converged MPLS VPN network.Like most local companies, CMH was running separate voice and data networks. Telkom line infrastructure was in place for voice,...

Turning the innovation agenda inside out

In today’s digitally-driven economies, organisations’ entire operating models are popping up and disappearing, and being recreated again, almost overnight. The rise of mobility – weaved into almost every facet of the modern enterprises’ architecture – is emerging as a...

The changing face of modern business

There is no escaping the changing face of modern business. The traditional picture of a company located in an “easy-to-travel” to building where employees physically work alongside each other, in a fixed and networked computing environment, no longer rings...