Hitachi aims to disrupt industrial IoT
Hitachi and Hitachi Vantara recently released Hitachi's first commercial Lumada internet of things (IoT) platform. The purpose of the platform is to make it simple to harness the power of IoT data in order to drive real value for Hitachi's customers and partners. Now...
Toshiba debuts Azure-certified edge device
Toshiba Client Solutions has announced dynaEdge, a high-performance Windows 10 based mobile edge computing device that is certified for Microsoft Azure IoT services to provide a next-generation Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge platform. Using Azure Cognitive...
The sharing economy in hospitality
Remy Rein, senior lecturer at Ecole hôteliere de Lausanne (EHL), examines the opportunities for hoteliers. Attend a hotel conference these days and the issue of the sharing economy is likely to raise its head, in particular competition from short-term rental services...
Top game changers n 2018
Gordon Thomson, MD of digital acceleration: EMEAR at Cisco, shares what he thinks are the top tech trends for digital leaders to invest in next year. * Put data to work - Organisations now collect more data than a human brain could possibly process in a lifetime (or...
What the future holds for business IT in 2018
Ronald Ravel, director: B2B South Africa at Toshiba South Africa, believes that organisations are embracing technology at an ever-greater pace to better equip, enable and empower their business for the future. From the creation of new business streams, to developing a...
Challenges of convergence, HCI
Converged infrastructure and hyper-convergence is gaining traction among business IT departments wishing to enable digital transformation while under the constant pressure of increasingly tightening budgets. However, transitioning to converged infrastructure can be...
Priorities for SME survival in the next 6 months
With 70-80% of SMEs failing within the first five years, and only 1% growing to employ more than 10 people, South African SMEs are struggling to realise their own growth potential and become active drivers of job creation. And with slow economic growth, on-going...
Orange Business Services wins with Cisco Spark
Orange Business Services has registered more than 200 000 user subscriptions for Cisco Spark and hundreds of the popular Spark Boards for more than 20 multinational enterprise customers, and the momentum is accelerating. Cisco Spark by Orange satisfies a growing user...
HCL cited as outsourcing leader
HCL Technologies is among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its Q4, 2017 Forrester Wave evaluation of Next-Generation Infrastructure Outsourcing. In this evaluation, HCL was cited as a Leader in Next-Generation Infrastructure Outsourcing,...
Alternative wireless connections
In certain instances it is not possible to connect network components utilised in industry with a fibre connection. Therefore alternative wireless connections must be made available. "When wireless connections are needed for the inter-networking of devices ie. the...
Convert digital disruption to competitive advantage
Technological development is outpacing the evolution of business processes. In the past, manufacturing and operations were linear processes and companies focused on the customer at the end of the sales cycle only. They lacked the ability to centre the entire...
Banking boards must hone their digital IQ skills
Banks and other financial institutions need to bolster the digital IQ around their boardroom tables if they want to deliver true digital solutions to customers, says Simon Blissett, Cisco's head of financial services and innovation, EMEAR. A decade ago, digital IQ was...