How to manage connectivity expenditure
The connectivity space has changed drastically in the last decade mainly due to the decreasing cost of connectivity year on year. By Vishal Barapatre, chief technology officer at In2IT Technologies While the cost of bandwidth continues to come down, the stability and...
5G battleground to move indoors in 2020
2020 will see mobile operators focus on taking ownership of the indoor environment to deliver seamless 5G connectivity indoors and out, claims Ranplan Wireless. While some 80% of mobile data is consumed indoors, only around 2% of buildings currently have dedicated...
Fujitsu wins for predictive maintenance in Airbus AI challenge
Fujitsu has been awarded first prize by leading global aerospace manufacturer Airbus in a worldwide competition to find the most accurate use of an unsupervised artificial intelligence (AI) system. Top ranking in the Airbus AI Gym challenge for accurate sensor...
Direct automated IoT device-to-cloud solution launches
What is believed to be the world's first fully automated, direct IoT 'Device-to-Cloud' solution to simplify the process of onboarding an IoT device into AWS IoT Core securely, was announced by Eseye. Intelligent Cloud Connect, the new joint solution developed in...
SD-WAN and SDx – the time is now
The importance of the connected business in a digital world has resulted in organisations reprioritising how they view and manage data. By Binesh George, CEO of Redvine Networks Fundamental to this is how companies link their systems to that of the cloud provider or...
GoDaddy debuts Professional Email for SMEs
GoDaddy has launched a new Professional Email solution in South Africa. GoDaddy Professional Email enables business owners to easily create an email address that matches their domain name, and features built-in tools to help them run their businesses more efficiently....
MTN Business simplifies network management
MTN Business is rolling out its SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) to existing and new enterprise customers. Traditionally, wide area networks (WANs) have allowed companies to extend their computer networks over large distances - to connect...
Dell adds on-demand services
Dell Technologies is introducing Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings. As part of this new offering, the company is expanding its extensive flexible consumption portfolio to support Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the new...
Three ways to build a more sustainable IT model
Reports suggest 8-million data centres are active today, and we'll see billions of devices connected in the very near future. By Brendan McAravey, regional director: sub-Saharan Africa Citrix Further, when factoring in the millions of people who travel to and from...
SA enterprises missing an opportunity to be more agile
Gartner says 54% of companies are planning to become product-led organisations. By Calton Nhando, digital consultant at IndigoCube That may seem like a lot and it's often easy for the business and technology people to see the advantages of adopting the approach. But...
SA’s first blockchain property register launched
The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF), research consultancy 71point4 and Seso Global have partnered to develop South Africa's first blockchain-based property register. The pilot study area consists of almost 1 000 properties located in four sites...
Fujitsu’s Infrastructure Manager paves the way to software-defined data centre
Fujitsu is standardising on Infrastructure Manager (ISM) as the standard for monitoring and managing entire IT landscapes, taking a step towards the software-defined data center. ISM provides seamless, holistic management ensuring that IT infrastructures retain the...