Open source does not always compute
Companies today are faced with a serious decision that can have significant consequences when it comes to choosing a content management system (CMS). On the one hand, there are many open source solutions that are offered free of charge, as well as proprietary...
What open source means for users
Ask just about any person you meet whether they are using open source software (OSS) and the chances are good you will be met by a blank stare. Yet, people might be surprised when you tell them that they are either using it on the mobile device they own or on their...
Open source software is gaining ground
Software is eating the business world and open source software is eating the software world, said Johann Evans, chief technical officer at Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists. “We can see open source software maturing and coming of age – and its...
The Open Group SA to host EA conference
The Open Group Enterprise Architecture (EA) Practitioners Conference will be held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Johannesburg on 5 September 2013. The sixth conference to be hosted by The Open Group South Africa, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium. This...
CA simplifies data protection for Linux
CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has launched CA ARCserve D2D for Linux. This provides fast, simple data protection and disaster recovery for businesses running virtual and physical servers on the popular open source platform. An image-based...
Open source is everywhere
Open source software (OSS) has come a long way since the 1990s and early 2000s, when it was considered a risky investment for enterprises, says Rob Lith, business development director at Connection Telecom. Stunning rise A recent Goldman Sachs study catalogues a...
LSD IT opens new office in Cape Town
Level 2 BBBEE accredited service provider, LSD Information Technology, opened a new office in Cape Town in February 2012. The Cape Town Branch is headed up by long-term LSD member, Derryn Askham. An important new addition to the Cape Town team is a full-time Linux...
Obsidian partners with CTU
South Africa’s leading provider of open source solutions and training services, Obsidian, has entered into a strategic partnership with CTU Training Solutions that is expected to accelerate Red Hat certification in the country. This new partnership is expected to...
The true cost of freeware
Smaller or new call centres are often lured by the promise of free call centre software that can be downloaded and cobbled together by an “IT professional”, thus reducing their initial capex investment, says Bruce von Maltitz, 1Stream. Usually, this works for a short...
NWK implements SUSE server
Leading agricultural service provider NWK has migrated its entire z/VSE mainframe workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z and is using one IFL on its new IBM zEnterprise 114 server. Processing speeds have improved by more than 70% when compared with the...
Torque IT wins Red Hat awards
Leaders in IT education, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the JSE-listed Kelly Group, Torque IT has won two awards at the Red Hat Training Partner Conference, hosted in Istanbul in November, 2012. Red Hat business unit manager for Torque IT, Mpho Makgoka, was present...