IndigoCube aims to drive business agility
If your business is looking at tackling an agility project or programme might want to attend IndigoCube's Business Agility Conference in July, which will feature thought leaders on business agility like Scott Ambler, Mark Lines and Jaco Viljoen. The speakers have...
IBM debuts Blockchain Platform Starter Plan
What do you get when you offer easy access to an enterprise blockchain test environment for three months? More than 2 000 developers and tens of thousands of transaction blocks, all sprinting toward production readiness, as IBM found out. IBM has announced that the...
GirlCodeHack aims to impact 400
GirlCode, a social enterprise that aims to empower young girls and women through technology, will be hosting its fifth annual GirlCodeHack from 3-5 August 2018. The hackathon will be the largest all-female hackathon in South Africa, with over 400 participants...
What’s the buzz with enterprise architecture as a service
CIOs today are faced with a dizzying array of enterprise technology services, and while it's never been easier to purchase new tools, it's also never been so important to guide these purchases with a bigger architectural strategy. By Sumit Kumar Sharma, enterprise...
Trend Micro extends container security for DevOps
Trend Micro has expanded its security solution for containers with Deep Security Smart Check. This component provides continuous container image scanning to complement the existing Deep Security runtime container protection. To spot malware and vulnerabilities most...
Mobile app development simplified
React Native continues to gain popularity as a programming language that makes mobile development less time-consuming and more cost efficient. Easier than ever before, companies can now quickly build a mobile app that's fast, intuitive, and consistent with their...
How to get customers to use your mobile app
Speaking ahead of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Cape Town in September, Gartner research vice-president Olive Huang looks at how companies struggling to get customers to engage with their mobile apps should rethink their mobile customer experience (CX) strategy....
CA Technologies eases mainframe accessibility
CA Technologies has announced new solutions for the Modern Software Factory. CA Brightside and a new partnership with IBM seek to help clients modernise their IT infrastructure to innovate faster. CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence is a SaaS-based offering that helps...
Get your software testing ducks in a row
One of the most significant and common issues I've noticed with recent test automation projects is environment preparation - or rather lack thereof. By Mario Matthee, head: SQA architecture and R&D at DVT Too many companies seem to want to jump into test...
EOH introduces containers to cloud
The cloud services division at EOH has announced, in what it believes to be a South African first, that it is bringing containers to its Enterprise Public Cloud Platform. Containers and container orchestration are top of mind in the IT world, and for good reason, says...
SUSE adds container certification for ISVs
SUSE has introduced SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform, expanding its respected application-certification program for independent software vendors (ISVs). ISVs building containers that use the open source docker container format can now certify their...
Veeam DataLabs provides isolated production instances
Veeam Software has unveiled a new, key component of Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform - Veeam DataLabs. A form of copy data management, Veeam DataLabs allows organisations to easily create new instances of their production environments on-demand. This capability...