Fibre surge drives Otel capacity growth
South Africa's office parks are devouring broadband connectivity to such an extent that OTEL has quadrupled its network capacity since 25 December 2015. The independent telco says the upgrade took place between Christmas and New Year and saw its clients return to work...
BT adds SDN capability
BT has announced the global launch of BT Connect Intelligence IWAN, an innovative managed service that enables organisations to automatically route and optimise network traffic and gain visibility of applications performance without spending more on bandwidth. BT...
Incredible opportunities offered by the ‘API economy’
API, application program interface, is becoming a buzzword in the IT world, writes Sven Hammar, CEO of Apica System. According to Wikipedia, API is "a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications". For a more appealing definition, let us...
IT’s changing of the guard
Thanks to the evolution of technology, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) no longer need to be responsible for IT in the traditional sense, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. With these companies under pressure to deliver more on...
Dell makes waves in open networking
Dell has extended its reach in open networking with the announcement of Operating System 10 (OS10) from Dell Networking. This next-generation networking software is designed to introduce new levels of software flexibility and programmability in large-scale data centre...
Huawei B315 LTE WiFi router available in SA
With so much of our daily lives being spent on multiple smart devices - both for work and leisure - reliable, fast connectivity has become more important than before. "People want great connectivity for their devices, not only at the office, but at home too," says...
Switch market sees slight growth, routers decline
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) exceeded $6,1-billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), an increase of 2% year over year and a healthy increase of 6,1% quarter over quarter. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service provider...
How Windows 10 can mobilise your small business
You may personally not have to deal with bureaucracy or red tape, but that doesn't mean big decisions come easily for any small business, writes Chris Buchanan, Dell Client Solutions Director for South Africa. Every corporate initiative, pilot project, new direction...
More network decomposition expected in 2016
While the last 10 year has seen network functions consolidated into a single physical appliance, the move from the physical to the virtual world is now producing the opposite effect that will accelerate further in 2016, according to KEMP Technologies. This...
Can your networking equipment deliver a competitive edge?
In our high-tech digital world where business is extremely fast-paced, the network has become central to maintaining a competitive advantage. By Jaco Erasmus, Dell Enterprise Division Manager at Drive Control Corporation. A robust, integrated, open network provides...
2016 – the year of XaaS and everything software-defined
The new year will offer up several opportunities to businesses that are ready to embrace transformation of infrastructure and whose CIOs are up to the challenge to help businesses use new technology effectively and truly rethink IT. IT professionals like Muggie van...
Innovating for outcomes …
Avaya's MD for South Africa, Danny Drew, believes that innovation should be towards a broader goal that can ensure inclusivity, development and growth for individuals and the community at large. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make...