M2M key to unlocking Africa inclusivity
As more financial service providers adopt machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, it is becoming ever more apparent that these solutions are vital to economic inclusivity and innovation on the African continent. This is according to Jeremy Potgieter, SADC regional head at...
SD-WAN helps improve network performance
"The consistent, reliable, low latency and, above all, fast performance of an organisation's network is a non-negotiable in the era of digitisation." This is the word from Anton Jacobsz, MD at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited, referring to total...
Alexander Forbes, Accenture drive transformation
Integrated financial and risk services provider Alexander Forbes has embarked on a digital transformation journey, and has selected Accenture as one of its preferred partners. Having identified digitisation as a key enabler of the company's strategic aspirations,...
IoT: The Internet of (every)thing?
Gone are the days when I had to get up out of my bed to turn the lights on, writes Rebecca Franks, Android engineering lead at DVT and Google developer expert. Now every morning my lights slowly turn on automatically without lifting a finger. My Google Home's alarm...
How to maintain systems while growing
As an organisation moves through the five stages of the business lifecycle, rapid growth must be coupled with sound processes and access to information to reach maturity. With the correct systems in place, the business can function at the same efficiency regardless of...
Overcoming roadblocks on the journey to digitalisation
Technology predictions foretell a future world where virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and automation are the norm -- in both our personal and business lives. These technologies, among others, are set to completely change the way we interact...
Machines shape the ‘golden ratio’ of data-driven business
This is the third in a series of three blog posts in which Niral Patel, MD of Oracle South Africa has been discussing the role people, data and machines must play in forming the data-driven businesses of tomorrow. You can read part one, on the role of people, here...
Datacentrix helps SNG save R2m on tech
Datacentrix has completed the rollout of more than 1 000 AMD PRO-based Hewlett-Packard notebooks, to South Africa's fifth largest accounting, audit, advisory and forensics firm: SizweNtsalubaGobodo (SNG), helping the company to realise R- million in savings through...
RSAWEB speeds cloud performance
To address performance concerns and support customers in moving critical enterprise workloads to the cloud, South African cloud and connectivity provider RSAWEB turned to infrastructure-as a-service (IaaS) integrator ShapeBlue to deploy a NetApp SolidFire all-flash...
CA leads in continuous delivery and release automation
CA Technologies has been named a Leader in the "The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, Q3 2017" report by Forrester Research. The report evaluates 15 of the most significant continuous delivery and release automation vendors. Vendors were...
First African CAT-M1 test for IoT
Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have successfully completed a lab trial for a Cat-M1 solution with MTN South Africa in support of MTN's Internet of Things (IoT) ambitions. This is the first Cat-M1 test implementation of its kind on the African continent and...
Fortinet expands security fabric
Fortinet has announced the latest expansion of its Security Fabric, featuring enhanced SD-WAN functionality that is integrated with Fortinet's proven security capabilities.FortiOS version 5.6 consolidates advanced security with software-defined networking functions....