The hidden costs of hosted VoIP
Many businesses rush into hosted VoIP investments, seeing the technology as an enormous cost saving - only to be disappointed with the results. Too often, this is because it is difficult to evaluate the true costs of VoIP, resulting in turn, in an unquantifiable...
Customise mobile experience with Aruba
Aruba Networks has announced the global launch of Aruba Mobile Engagement, an interactive and personalised mobile solution based on WiFi and location services powered by Aruba Beacons. Aruba Mobile Engagement enables organisations to deliver customised push...
Riverbed launches FORCE 2014
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, launched at Riverbed FORCE 2014, l the Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance programme with 17 charter programme members. The new programme offers technology partners the opportunity to bring new...
Software-based VC solutions
Video conferencing has traditionally been a hardware-centric technology solution. But, over past couple of years, there has been an inexorable shift in interest and demand for software and services-based video conferencing solutions. This is according to Nicolette...
Ocedo enters fast-growing SDN space
Ocedo, an enterprise networking company represented in South Africa by NetXactics, has announced its entry in the fast growing software defined networking (SDN) market. Ocedo was started by the founders of Astaro, a network security vendor that over the course of a...
Digital leadership is critical
There’s no denying that digital technologies are changing the way that business is done across all industries. But to ensure they start to realise the benefits of this move now, companies need to make sure that they have the right kind of digital leadership, says...
Hosted PBX cuts costs, operational strain
Companies are increasingly turning towards the cloud – the umbrella term used to describe Internet-based computing where data, software, or applications are run and stored online instead of on the user's machine itself or housed elsewhere on site. It is therefore...
Level 3 and Workonline enhance African network connectivity
Level 3 Communications, a Fortune 500 company that provides local, national and global communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers, is collaborating with Workonline Communications to provide enhanced network connectivity in Africa....
Huawei facilitates telecom network transformation in the cloud
Huawei recently showcased its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) technologies at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Germany. At the event, Huawei discussed how industry partners can best utilize these technologies to...
The Internet of Things here to stay
If you have had anything to do with technology in the past three months, chances are that you have come across the Internet of Things (IoT). In effect, this refers to how every device and appliance will be connected to the internet to significantly change the way we...
Closing the ‘mobile’ gap in your DR strategy
In a data-driven business environment, disaster recovery (DR) is critical to on-going productivity and profitability, writes Fred Mitchell, software division manager at Drive Control Corporation. The ability to get back up and running quickly after any data loss...
Reliance on one network provider is risky
Businesses that rely on a single network provider for their connectivity are putting themselves at risk, according to Louis Jardim, commercial director at Turrito Networks, who says small- to medium-sized businesses are particularly vulnerable. “Large enterprises are...