Security in the digital age

The quickening pace of change in business today is forcing companies to transform themselves digitally, in new and innovative ways, says Kim Andersen, account CTO at T-Systems South Africa. It’s requiring them to shake off traditional, legacy-based approaches to IT,...

Cloud backups prevent the death of data

Over the past two years the uptake of pure cloud backup by smaller businesses has burgeoned as the idea of saving company data to the cloud has become easier for companies to digest, and bandwidth has become faster and cheaper. Securicom’s Richard Broeke says looking...
New planet a data ‘gold mine’

New planet a data ‘gold mine’

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a potential gold mine of scientific data. Dubbed HD 219134b, this exoplanet, which orbits too close to its...

The power of data

Thanks to the increasing number of connected devices, the volume of data has exploded. In fact, expectations are that the digital world will contain 44-trillion gigabytes of data by 2020. Armandè Kruger, regional sales director at PBT Group, examines this changing...

Painting a picture with data

Visual data analytics is a lot like painting a picture. The image might not look like much in the beginning as you play around with different brush strokes, colours and materials. But after time, and with a little experimentation, a picture starts to take shape and...