SAP TechEd: IoT and the big data explosion

SAP TechEd: IoT and the big data explosion

Analysts tell us that literally billions of devices will be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) within the next few years. But they largely fail to talk about how companies will process and analyse the billions of data streams that will be produced. Kathy Gibson...
Opinion: The fibre dilemma

Opinion: The fibre dilemma

By Graham Beneke, Technical Pre-Sales Specialist at Datacentrix and Chairman of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) Fibre optic technology could catapult the African internet economy into the future, in much the same way that the cellphone...
Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016 winners

Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016 winners

The Jury of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the UAE’s international awards for renewable energy and sustainability, has selected nine winners across its five categories today. The winners will be announced at the Prize awards ceremony on 16 January 2017 as part of Abu...
If you can’t SDN, you likely can’t innovate

If you can’t SDN, you likely can’t innovate

If you’re not defining your business as a service provider able to support your customers on the level of scalability and flexibility of a software-defined network, then you’re not ready for the new age of technology says Ralph Berndt, Director, Sales at Syrex....
New business risks from anti-hate speech bill

New business risks from anti-hate speech bill

By Robert Davies (CGF: Lead Independent Consultant) and reviewed by Terrance M. Booysen Saying or doing something racist, or performing various deeds which falls within a long list of things the Bill deems to be hate speech – or a hate crime – could see...
Innovation: Africa must aim for Jupiter

Innovation: Africa must aim for Jupiter

If we were to speculate what motivated Siya Xuza, wunderkind, inventor of a new rocket fuel, Harvard alum and one of South Africa’s innovation leaders, what would the conclusions be? Did he yearn after a career in science? Was he aiming to lift his family out of...