Campus switch market declines as backlog normalises
According to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group 4Q 2023 worldwide Campus Switch sales declined by 4% year-over-year (Y/Y), marking the first quarter of decline since 4Q 2020 and signaling the onset of a multi-quarter digestion cycle in the market. Vendor performance...
Justice Department sues Apple
The Justice Department, joined by 16 other state and district attorneys general, has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple for monopolisation or attempted monopolization of smartphone markets in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The complaint, filed...
Banks set to form customer-centric ecosystems
A significant 65% of global banking executives believe branch-based banking will be "dead" within five years. This is according to a report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) entitled "Branching out: can banks move from city centres to digital...
New Intel XPU targets HPC and AI
At the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Intel is announcing advances in its Xeon processor for HPC and AI as well as innovations in memory, software, exascale-class storage, and networking technologies for a range of HPC use cases. "To maximize HPC...
To win, insurers need to navigate future factors
The insurance industry should aim to provide enhanced advice and assistance to a greater proportion of the country's population. This is among the finding of a PwC report on the future of advice and engagement in the South African insurance industry. Riaan Singh,...
NGOs could buckle under lockdown pressure
The pressure on non-governmental organistions (NGOs) since the first lockdown over a year ago has not subsided, and the news of another hard lockdown could cripple the sector entirely. This is highlighted in a survey by Tshikululu Social Investments in 2020, which...
Cell C on track for RAN decommissioning
Cell C has successfully decommissioned 34% of its physical Radio Access Network (RAN) sites, while seamlessly migrating prepaid and Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) customers to roam solely on its partner network, MTN, via a virtual RAN. In this first phase, the...
Partnership aims to reduce youth unemployment by 10%
As South Africa's youth unemployment rate reaches 46,3%, Accenture has announced a partnership with Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) that aims to give youth increased access to the economy and address youth unemployement at scale. "South Africa has 7.2 million...
Cyberattacks and threats continue to break records
We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons, according to Check Point Research. "We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth...
Huge growth for global public cloud services market
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40,7% in 2020 to total $64,3-billion, up from $45,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...
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New BB10 apps from Business Connexion
BlackBerry recently unveiled its BlackBerry 10 operating system and handset at the Sandton Convention Centre to guests, including enterprise customers and BlackBerry business partners. The new platform has been tested by over 150 carriers worldwide, and BlackBerry...
three6Five appointed as Ruckus reseller
Ruckus Wireless and three6Five have cemented an agreement where three6Five has been appointed as an official reseller and service partner of all Ruckus Wireless products in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the agreement, three6Five will offer the complete line of Ruckus...
Web chat effective in contact centres
BT has announced the key lessons from research it has conducted into the latest communication channels being used by contact centres. One of the most significant developments BT has seen is the increasing use of Web chat as a channel for advisors to talk to...
IndigoCube unveils application security unit
IndigoCube has launched a new business unit dedicated to application security. Ziaan Hattingh, MD of IndigoCube, says the new unit is a direct response to a growing market need. “Companies spend the bulk of their security budgets on infrastructure security, such as...
Hosted models boost customer service
Many businesses and call centres have come to wrap their heads around the concept of hosted technology, where a provider offers the customer affordable, pay-per-use access to technology, along with ongoing support and service, says Jed Hewson, director of 1stream. ...
The pros and cons of big data
The opportunity to harvest insights from big data, much of which is marketable or can generate income, is obvious gold up for grabs, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge integration Dynamics (KID). Besides that, the transition of data or information from a...
IT asset management improves audit success
Effective IT asset management can help all tiers of government departments to have a clear view of their IT assets. This can help a department to have no unexplained variance between the lists of IT assets purchased against the actual assets that can be accounted for...
McAfee announces portfolio expansion
McAfee has announced its strategy for building upon Security Connected, the framework in which security products and services work together to safeguard businesses with better protection from new types of attacks. McAfee will expand its current broad portfolio...
Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers boom
Oracle has announced its SPARC T4 servers featuring Oracle Solaris power mission-critical workloads in over 3 000 enterprises worldwide, nearly four times the number announced one year ago. Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers have been adopted globally across all major...
Security predictions for 2013
As users round out their 2013 business and IT plans, cybercriminals are resolving to implement increasingly sophisticated threats targeting specific computer systems and organisations big and small. This is according to Doros Hadjizenonos, South Africa sales manager...
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