IoT a prerequisite for sustainable development
IoT and digitisation enables us to efficiently, proactively and predictively address the sustainability challenges that are faced globally and on the African continent. By Reshaad Sha, CEO of Liquid Telecom With Africa's population set to increase from around...
The race to the edge will define digital transformation
As enterprise moves to cloud computing models, traditional enterprise data centres are beginning to shut down. Cloud, together with a necessity to move applications closer to their users are reasons why Teraco, Africa's first vendor neutral data centre provider, says...
SAB Lerumo’s class of 2018 graduates
The South African Breweries (SAB) Lerumo is an enterprise and supplier development programme targeted at black woman owned small-to-medium enterprises with the intent to help them improve procurement capabilities and better manoeuvre in large corporates with complex...
Radio telescope presents biggest data challenge
South Africa needs to consider the capacity needed to handle the massive amount of data that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is expected to generate. The precursor to the SKA, the MeerKAT, was recently launched in the Northern Cape, and streams of data are...
Immersive computing is breaking down barriers
Despite all the incredible ways in which technology has advanced and transformed our world in recent years, the way we interact with it - the human interface of technology - has advanced surprisingly little. By Michael van Lier, southern Africa district and channel...
Key questions for effective M2M deployments
If you want to utilise IoT and are preparing for a connected device deployment, you'll probably have worked through many scenarios and options. By Jeremy Potgieter, SADC regional head at Eseye, IoT edge to cloud cellular specialists and AWS Advance Technology Partner...
Deep learning helps to save the rhinos
According to Save The Rhino statistics, over 1000 rhinos are killed annually in South Africa. These harrowing poaching statistics display a gloomy future for survival of this beautiful species. While many attempts have been undertaken over the past ten years to combat...
SD-WAN: answering the enterprise question
The confluence of cloud, big data and compute has ignited demand for SD-WAN in a market hungry for competence and cost efficiency, by Réan van Niekerk, CEO of Metacom. According to the latest SD-WAN study by Dell-Oro Group, SD-WAN sales are predicted to reach...
Huawei builds optical transport network for ÖBB
Huawei has deployed an optical transport network (OTN) using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) for Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). DWDM technology enables 100Gbit/s performance and the ability to expand broadband network systems efficiently. Customized...
Technology brings stability to the oil industry
The oil industry has witnessed extreme crude price volatility in recent years. The dominant causes besides political factors include price speculation, the strengthening of US markets due to their 'shale revolution', and the increasing interest to leverage greener...
5G a paradigm shift in the role of IoT
In just a couple of years, the fifth-generation mobile network will be commercially available, promising better connections, faster speeds and lower latency, for those living in a hyper connected world. It's processing power, for example, has the potential to move us...
Bridge the innovation to execution gap
The unpredictability and pace of change means organisations can't wait for certainties before committing to new ideas. Yet a new report from Cass Business School and VMware revealed exactly that. By Antonio Oriol Barat, head of cloud IT infrastructure services at...