What a connected society needs
In today’s more digital world, businesses have started to focus less on the amount of data consumed and more on just having fast and reliable connectivity, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. The increasing commoditisation of data...
Telkom BCX offers Cisco’s HCS
Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco have launched one of one of South Africa’s first end-to-end hosted collaboration solution (HCS) offerings. Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco’s HCS offering utilises the cloud to address the on-premise pain points many businesses...
Evolving to bimodal IT: become agile, stay stable
One of the tell-tale signs of ICT evolution within emerging markets is the advent of bimodal IT, or the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery - one focused on stability, the other on agility. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 75% of IT...
IT managed services reduce risk, up performance
Gone are the days when a business simply needed to have a better product or service than that of its competitor, to succeed, and technology was merely a supporting tool to achieve this. Today, companies are driven to provide a unique customer experience - the more...
Adapting to the new digital workplace
The explosion of smartphones, tablets and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is transforming the way we communicate, consume services, and manage our personal lives. "The combination of mobile devices and cloud-based apps is also changing the very nature of our work...
Innovate in isolation at your own peril
Industry disruptors are forcing traditional organisations to move out of their comfort zones and unless they have a solid innovation strategy and roadmap in place to compete, they run the risk of becoming obsolete. This is the view of Vish Rajpal, group executive of...
Ericsson launches 5G plug-ins
5G subscription uptake will commence in 2020 and is expected to be faster than for 4G. The development of 5G is being driven by new use cases that will impact both consumers and industries. New applications and use cases anticipated for 5G include safe, self-driving...
Siemon debuts new wall mount cabinet
Siemon has introduced a new wall mount cabinet into the African market that saves valuable floor space whilst providing a cost-effective means to secure and protect network equipment from dust, tampering and other hazards in a wide range of applications. The Wall...
Software AG, Dell take realtime streaming analytics to the edge
Software AG and Dell have unveiled a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture that allows enterprises to perform real-time streaming analytics at the edge of the network, close to digital devices and sensors. Dell's Edge Gateway 5000 Series, designed for edge...
VAST Networks partners with WirelessG on WiFi
VAST Networks, Africa's first open-access WiFi Network, announces WirelessG as its latest partner to provide World-Class Wi-Fi in South Africa. On finalising the partnership Grant Marais, CEO of VAST Networks says: "With the launch of WirelessG, it validates that...
Metacom unveils GSM router
Industrial and commercial communications operator Metacom has unveiled the MC412 Intelligent Router platform, the new platform continues to build on the success of the highly-regarded MC402 Remote Router. "Over the last few years the MC402 Intelligent Routers has been...
Why businesses need a data management strategy
Both the world and the IT industry are changing at a breathtaking speed, with the Internet of Things (IoT) set to further usher in a host of changes, writes Gary de Menezes, country manager of NetApp South Africa. Some of these transformations we can already foresee,...