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...

Meeting mobile app needs of the enterprise

Businesses face a number of challenges when it comes to software and application deployment, says Paulo Ferreira, head of Enterprise Mobility at Samsung Electronics South Africa. As employees start bringing their own mobile devices into the corporate environment, the...

Windows 8 may not be enterprise standard

With Windows XP’s end-of-life date of 8 April 2014 rapidly approaching, most IT shops are still too focussed on migrating to Windows 7 to bother with Windows 8 anytime soon, if at all.  To be reasonably considered an enterprise standard, approximately half of...

BB10 still strong in enterprise

A number of North American enterprises across a diverse range of sectors, including technology, banking, retail and government, have adopted BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 as part of their mobile strategy.  The growing number of organisations...

Mobility to change the African enterprise

Mobility is changing the way business is run across Africa, and the IT department needs to step up to enable it, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR Telecommunications.  Mobility is an unstoppable wave, and anyone who tries to block it will simply...