A game-changing year for videoconferencing
A recent Canalys UC Market report for EMEA forecasts that between 2012 and 2014, video shipments will spike. It seems businesses large and small are coming round to the idea of using video conferencing as an effective and efficient business communications tool, says...
Novell Filr provides anytime file access
File synchronisation and hosted services have been increasingly used by businesses in recent years yet few of them allow users to leverage their own enterprise class security and most of them require additional layers of management. The reason for this has been “why...
Comstor offers expanded FlexPod solution
Comstor, a division of Westcon SA, is pleased to announce that South African customers can now immediately benefit from NetApp and Cisco’s decision to expand their partnership and in turn unify branch office, data centre and public cloud infrastructures under the...
Don’t forget the data centre
Flexible, efficient data centres are now more vital than ever before, says Huawei’s Lauren Fan, president of Huawei Enterprise Business for East and Southern Africa. A decade ago, enterprise level computing was highly focussed on driving efficiency within the data...
SMEs set to be a big force in SA
With more than 1-million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) driving more than third of the South African GDP, Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, is talking directly to these businesses about how to...
Alcatel-Lucent extends enterprise portfolio
Alcatel-Lucent is introducing new products that enable enterprises to accommodate a more mobile workforce. These products address requirements for a better user experience accessing realtime applications anytime, anyplace - on the corporate network, at a branch office...
The TCO of a communications solution
Converged communication solutions have become critical to the enterprise for productivity reasons amongst others. However, while organisations have invested large sums of money into communication technology, they often fail to realise the full value of their...
Huawei launches iOS-based TP Controller
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the launch of TP Controller, an iOS-based Telepresence touch control system. TP Controller makes it possible for users to control Huawei Telepresence products...
CA Technologies empowers enterprise mobility
CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies revealed new solutions and capabilities to help enterprises embrace the mobile opportunity with confidence and improve how they connect with employees and customers. CA Technologies innovative approach to enabling...
Huawei, Intel launch SSD servers
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has announced the launch of solid-state drive (SSD) servers in co-operation with Intel. The SSD servers use new-generation Intel SSDs, which solves storage bottlenecks,...
WAN optimisation aids hyperconvergence
Convergence started in the late 1990s when Internet Protocol (IP) became the de facto standard for communication, says Christo Briedenhann, country manager of Riverbed Technology, Africa. Today, convergence means streamlined voice, video, and storage delivery via an...
eLTE broadband trunking solution form Huawei
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the launch of its eLTE broadband trunking solution. As the world's first 100Mb professional broadband trunking solution based on LTE technology, the Huawei eLTE...