Top tech predictions for 2020 and beyond
Increased rollouts of 5G in 2020, will unlock the development of more advanced technologies says Gianfranco Lanci, corporate president and chief operating officer of Lenovo. Prediction 1 - 2020 will be the Year of 5G With potential speeds of up to 10 gigabits...
Digital transformation: 2020 and beyond
Every definition of transformation includes the notion of change, writes Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist: office of the CTO at F5 Networks. The most common examples are found in nature, in the process of change from caterpillar to butterfly and tadpole...
2020: The technology trends to watch
It is expected that 2020 will see a myriad of innovative technologies starting to enter the mainstream. And while many of them have been around for a while, South African companies will only now start realising the potential benefits they can unlock. By Ian Jansen van...
VMware leads in hyperconverged infrastructure
VMware has been positioned furthest on the completeness of vision axis in Gartner’s’s November 2019 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. According to Gartner, a Gartner Magic Quadrant is “a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a...
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...