Velocity includes Mimecast in offering
Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based e-mail archiving, security and continuity for Microsoft Exchange has concluded an agreement with managed infrastructure services specialist, Velocity Group, to incorporate Unified E-mail Management as a core component of...
Transform data centres to boost profits
Transforming and optimising the data centre has benefits across business operations, and can deliver significant bottom line payback, says Brent Lees, senior product manager at Riverbed Technology. Traditionally, data centre management has been the domain of the IT...
Intervate to demonstrate enterprise search
Intervate, South Africa’s foremost provider of Enterprise Information Management Solutions (EIM), will host a discussion on the benefits of solution-based enterprise search functionality at the SharePoint Saturday event – due to be held in Northriding, Johannesburg on...
CCCA white paper evaluates data centres
The Communications Cable and Connectivity Association (CCCA) has published a white paper entitled Navigating the Pros and Cons of Structured Cabling Versus Top of Rack in the Data Centre, which it offers as a guide for data centre professionals and IT managers...
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...