New storage solutions needed for AI era
Kathy Gibson reports - In the artificial intelligence (AI) era, data storage is gaining new prominence. Dr Peter Zhou, president of Data Storage Product Line, Huawei, explains that storage has evolved over the years as we use data differently - and in the era of AI,...
How open source is key to mapping Mars
Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop. The Mars 2020 mission is aimed at exploring the geology of Jezero Crater and seeking signs of ancient microbial life on Mars using the...
Strong set of financials from Alviva
South Africa's largest distribution group, Alviva, has announced a strong set of results for the first six months of the year with revenue soaring by 52% to R11,4-billion. It is also the first set of results from the group since the acquisition of Tarsus Technologies....
VPN demand in Russia surges
According to in-house aggregated Atlas VPN user data, Virtual Private Network (VPN) installs in Russia surged by 1 906% in the last few days. The interest in VPNs started to increase on February 16, 2022, after the first wave of cyberattacks against Ukraine occurred....
Shot in the arm for Covid-19 vaccine storage and delivery
Looking to boost Covid-19 vaccine storage and distribution, the Department of Health is rolling out new cold-chain equipment throughout the country, thanks to a R74-million donation from Vodacom and the Vodafone Foundation. Vaccine storage is a challenge for various...
The future of the telco is in software
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Open software-defined technology is rapidly becoming the foundation on which telecommunications operators (telcos) are building modern networks that offer agile and flexible new services to customers. Both traditional...
Telia delivers software-defined network slicing
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Software-defined services are at the heart of new network slicing capabilities that Telia launched today with its customer Sandvik, a Swedish multinational engineering company. Rainer Deutschmann, group chief operating...
Telecoms is ‘the gateway to the future’
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 - Despite the many benefits that technology has brought us, people still don't really trust it. That's according to José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and CEO of Telefónica, and a board member of the GSMA, addressing...
Culture shifts, innovation required for new digital norm
While companies are building better digital habits and systems, a shift is needed from digital culture to value realisation, according to a Nutanix-commissioned CXO survey from IDC. Surveying leaders across EMEA, the IDC InfoBrief, From Digital Culture to Value...
SA publishers challenge Google and Meta at Competition Commission
The media industry association Publisher Support Services (PSS) yesterday presented its challenge of Google and Meta (Facebook) to be compensated for their content used on these platforms at an in-camera hearing of the Competition Commission's market inquiry into...
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Where DDoS is a business opportunity
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Oracle enhances Exadata Database Machine
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Managed service support key for iWayAfrica
Pan African telecoms operator, Gondwana International Networks (GIN), has announced that its iWayAfrica business will be partnering with managed services company, SevenC Computing to grow its foothold in key Africa territories. The move will enable GIN and iWayAfrica...
Dell Vostro 3900 Mini Tower Desktop from DCC
Durable, dependable and affordable computing for the home and SMB user is now more powerful than ever with the new Dell Vostro 3900 Mini Tower Desktop from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). With the latest generation Intel Core processors in a compact mini...
GIT launches VideoFlow solution
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Business management must go mobile
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Mobility, cloud security solutions needed
Trends such as mobility, BYOD and cloud have completely revolutionised the way we do business, by giving users access to the information they need anytime and from anywhere. Unfortunately, as much as businesses have gained from these trends, so have they been put at...
Huawei Ascend Y330 available from DCC
Smartphones don't have to cost a fortune. With the Huawei Ascend Y330 smartphone from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC), you can have all of the benefits of a touchscreen, Android operating system (OS) and impressive specifications, without the hefty price...
Cybersmart launches 100Mbps Internet
Internet service provider Cybersmart has launched Lightspeed, a 100Mbps uncapped fibre service. CEO, Laurie Fialkov, says that for the first time South African companies will have access to world-class broadband speeds at an internationally comparable price....
IRESS brings market data to the masses
IRESS, a principal supplier of share market and wealth management systems in Australia, Asia, Canada, New Zealand the UK and South Africa has created a Twitter tool that allows anyone following the @iress_data account to request share price information from it using...
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