SUSE, CTU in open source training partnership
Enterprise Linux solutions provider, SUSE South Africa, has entered into a strategic partnership with CTU Training Solutions that will see the institution provide training based on the current SUSE certification programme. This includes Certified Linux Administrator,...
Obsidian is SA’s first Atlassian Authorised Training Provider
Obsidian has become the first Atlassian Authorised Training Provider in South Africa. Atlassian provides tools that enable support, development and management teams to work toward agile methodology and ensure service delivery is aligned with customer expectations...
Red Hat, Amdocs enable open innovation
Amdocs has integrated Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with the Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator - an open, vendor-agnostic, catalogue-driven solution designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) transition from physical networks to...
Eurotech, Red Hat simplify IoT
Red Hat and Eurotech have announced a collaboration to simplify IoT integration and accelerate implementations of IoT projects. The two companies have combined their complementary technologies with the intention of building an end-to-end architecture for IoT that will...
SUSE makes it easier to manage SAP
SUSE has announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1, with new features for efficiently deploying and managing SAP applications on x86 hardware. Enhancements such as improved high...
Obsidian announces 2016’s first Free Beer Session
Open source software and services provider Obsidian Systems will hold the first pf its popular Free Beer session series for 2016 on Thursday, 18 February in Sandton, Johannesburg. The 19th Session, to be hosted at Investec, 100 Grayston Drive, will feature...
Are you prepared for digital transformation?
As IT technologies continue to evolve to support the inevitable Digital Transformation, 2015 has been a year of significant change in the market, driven mainly by customers, writes Frank Basinski, director: partner programs & enablement at Red Hat EMEA. Over the...
IBM’s LinuxONE extended to hybrid cloud
IBM has announced new technology features and collaborations for its LinuxONE family of high-performance Linux systems. The enhancements will enable organizations of all sizes to develop, deploy and manage applications for the cloud simply and efficiently with robust...
Linux Foundation advances blockchain technology
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger...
New user group targets Unix users, techies
All Unix users, developers and support people are invited to the first Xinuos FreeBSD User Group, taking place on 26 November. FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. The African arm of the user group is being set up in...
LinuxOne: a game changer for South African IT market
The mobile world requires agile infrastructure, one that has the requisite business intelligence for analysis, reporting and execution that drives immediate value to the firm, writes Maurice Blackwood, systems executive at IBM. Few doubt the value of Linux in the...
Obsidian Systems signs up as Hortonworks Systems Integrator Partner
Obsidian Systems, a leading provider of open source services, in South Africa and Hortonworks(r), the leading provider of Open Enterprise Hadoop, have entered into a partnership to provide South African businesses with an open source platform for the distributed...