Jul 6, 2015
CIOs are under pressure to support fast-evolving digital business scenarios but are finding traditional project and development methods unsuitable, according to Gartner. Enterprises are increasingly turning to Agile development to speed up projects and illustrate their value. Nathan Wilson, research director at Gartner, says that executed well, use of agile methods has the capability to transform IT-business relationships and have a major positive impact on IT value delivery.
May 21, 2015
Stellenbosch University has deployed the first academic campus-wide Huawei Agile network in South Africa. Joe Smit, IT director: services and operations at Stellenbosch University, says the project was designed to give lecturers and students greater mobility across the campus. He points out that Stellenbosch has some unusual issues around mobile networking in that the university isn’t a closed campus, but is part of the town’s infrastructure. Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Network Congress in Beijing.
May 20, 2015
Huawei has launched its Agile Network 3.0, which it believes will help to enable the Internet of Things (IoT). Liu Shaowei, president of the switch and enterprise communications product line at Huawei, points out that the end-user devices have changed dramatically over the last few years, but the network infrastructure is still largely based on older switching technology. Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Network Congress in Beijing.
The new move to software defined networking allows for centralised management and control, virtualisation and openness.
