The networking game-changers

At a time when IT budgets remain relatively flat, IT organisations are faced with a number of major shifts in networking that cannot be ignored. Finding ways to keep pace with this shifting landscape and the rapid drumbeat of innovation is a challenge certainly, but...

Mobility extends business reach

Mobility enjoys such acceptance in the market that many new enterprise applications are now built for mobile access first and for other devices only as additional channels. In addition, there is large-scale mobile re-engineering of enterprise applications taking...

The C, Ku and Ka-band satellite debate

With the launch of Ka-band satellites the debate of C versus Ku-band versus Ka-band has come to the fore, with varying opinions of the advantages of each technology against that of another. These considerations are valid and, in terms of a pure technology debate, very...

Tablets, smartphones fuel telepresence

Smartphones and tablets continue to nab market share from more traditional computing technologies, such as netbooks, as they are integrated into the enterprise arena. Apple’s iPad and tablets featuring Android-enabled operating systems, for example, have given...

Keeping it simple with video

Video has long been touted as the new voice. There is no doubt that it is a high growth market, but will the simplicity of other modes of communication such as voice and instant messaging prevent its true potential from ever being fully realised? If video is ever to...

Data traffic to become a flood

The mobile industry is constantly evolving and growing at a meteoric rate. It was just over five years ago that Apple sold the first iPhone – ever. Now smartphones are ubiquitous, with Apple shipping 250-million phones around the globe. Statistics show that 50-billion...