New satellites bring SA data home

Jun 8, 2015

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has unveiled its high-resolution SPOT 6 and 7 National Mosaics and ortho-bundle data. With a resolution of 1,5m, the SPOT 6 and 7 earth observation satellites, form a small constellation, which were deployed into the same orbit on 9 September 2012 (SPOT 6) and 20 June 2014 (SPOT 7). The two satellites replace a single satellite, SPOT 5, which was decommissioned at the end of March 2015.

Eliminate junk data to boost data centres

Jun 4, 2015

Junk data is like a disease eating away at the heart of the modern data centre, says Veeam Southern Africa region manager Warren Olivier: “It’s an invisible tumour chewing up resources, and can cause everything from poor performance to sudden failure of whole storage...

Data’s journey across the network

May 28, 2015

While it’s convenient to link various personal online accounts and identities, users must beware of the security risks, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. It’s nice when everyone gets along, isn’t it? When Web sites play fair with each other and...

Don’t be blinded by buzzwords

May 21, 2015

Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs released a study which projected that spending on cloud computing infrastructure and platforms will grow at a 30% compound annual growth rate from 2013 through 2018, compared with 5% growth for the overall enterprise IT market. This is...

Cybercriminals check into hotels

May 19, 2015

Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly smarter, and finding sophisticated new ways to steal customers’ data from hotel Web sites, front desks and sites, warns PwC.Hotels offer ample opportunity for cyber-attacks in the wake of increasing credit card transactions at...