Mzansi citizens urged to give an hour for Earth
WWF South Africa wants all South Africans to come together for this year's Earth Hour celebration - and, no, it doesn't involve turning off the lights. Over the years, Earth Hour has shone the spotlight on issues of climate change, nature loss and the interrelated...
Innovation and collaboration needed to avert a water crisis
South Africa is facing the prospect of a critical water crisis that threatens the nation's social, economic, and environmental well-being. By Poovandran Pillay, executive at Nedbank CSI The challenges are multifaceted, stemming from a combination of factors such as...
Lack of talent the biggest barrier to emerging technology adoption
IT executives see the talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, compared with just 4% in 2020, according to a new survey from Gartner. A lack of talent availability was cited far more often than other barriers this year,...
SA needs vital tech skills boost
If South Africa is serious about creating jobs and competing in the global economy, we need to do something about boosting our tech skills. Vukani Mngxati, CEO of Accenture in Africa, offers his opinion on the subject. If I were given a rand every time I heard the...
What can we expect from the financial markets in Q3?
The first two quarters of 2021 have seen a number of upsets in the technology investment space. Fred Razak, chief trading strategist at CMTrading, weighs in on financial markets following another interesting season and looks at what could happen next. Right now, it...
The rest of 2021 looks promising for the channel
The channel can look forward to market recovery over the rest of the year. This is one of the findings from a new distribution forecasting report from Context designed to help channel businesses plan more effectively for the second half of 2021 and beyond. The PC...
Top-performing companies tend to collaborate with competitors
There is a sharp divide in the digital strategies of better performing companies (Leaders) versus the laggards (Followers), with 80% of Leaders more willing to collaborate with competitors compared to Followers (23%). This is among the findings of global study titled...
New model could make African philanthropy more effective
The sustainable development of the not-for-profit sector in Africa is being challenged by an imbalance in international investment. This is the suggestion found in new research co-commissioned by Vodacom, Safaricom and Vodafone Foundation, which finds that foreign...
Ethernet switches up, routers down in Q2
The worldwide Ethernet switch market recorded revenues of $7,4-billion in the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21), an increase of 10,8% year over year. Meanwhile, worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market revenues declined 0,5% year over year in 2Q21 to...
Enterprise WLAN sales continue strong growth
Growth rates remained strong in the enterprise segment of the wireless local area networking (WLAN) market in the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21) as the market increased 22,4% on a year-over-year basis to $1,7-billion, according to the International Data Corporation...
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FID issues call for board members
The Foundation for Internet Development (FID) is inviting applications from suitably qualified potential non-executive board members who can help take its entrepreneur development mandate to the next level. FID is looking to eventually recruit five non-executive board...
Technology investment key to e-tail success
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Kathea brings Zoom to local market
Kathea, a local distributor of visual communications and unified communication (UC) solutions, has partnered with London-based Disruptive Vision to bring the innovative Zoom video streaming solution to the local market. Zoom is a standards-based, software only,...
BICS boosts big data power with QlikView
QlikView has announced that BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) is using QlikView with Teradata to analyse more than a terabyte of data each day providing customers with full visibility into their user roaming traffic across 2G/3G/4G networks. As a...
Infor unveils new Rhythm platform
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers, has announced Infor Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform. Infor Rhythm is built on a complete and proven e-commerce platform and now complemented with beautiful designs...
The cloud is here to stay
Today’s extremely competitive business landscape sees enterprises, both big and small, desperately seeking opportunities to cut costs, improve productivities and gain competitive advantage. Many are looking to IT as a way to realise these goals, and in particular,...
DVT, FICO bring Blaze Advisor to SA
Specialist software and services company DVT and leading analytics software company FICO have announced a strategic partnership that will see DVT market, implement and support FICO’s business rules management system Blaze Advisor in South Africa. The partnership comes...
globetom named a Red Hat Premier partner
South African ICT provider globetom has been appointed as a Red Hat Premier Business Partner; a status held by only a handful of local companies. As a premier partner which specialises in Red Hat Infrastructure, globetom is regarded as an expert business partner...
How big is big data?
A client recently complained that he was struggling with a reporting requirement because his technology platform could not cope with big data. Upon investigation it was found that he was dealing with approximately 20 million rows from a relatively small table, says...
Smart collaboration could help government
Private-public sector collaboration, underpinned by smart technologies, stand to significantly reduce South Africa’s crime levels, says IBM South Africa. Speaking from GovTech 2013, IBM South Africa sales lead Hamilton Ratshefola noted that the most recent crime...
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