Features

Despite 2015’s hard times, IT spending in South Africa will jump to hit $26,6bn

Sep 15, 2015

Despite its relative wealth and sophistication, South Africa's future IT market opportunity remains uncertain due to several serious constraining factors.

Bringing the universal access dream home

Sep 1, 2015

Universal Internet access is a dream that will help all South Africans benefit from the communications, information and resources that the privileged take for granted. Project Isizwe is close to making that dream a reality in Tshwane. Kathy Gibson visited the...

Solid. As a rock

Sep 1, 2015

The “Second Wave” of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association’s (IEEE-SA’s) 802.11ac standard is nothing like your grandfather’s WiFi. Representing the fifth-generation of wireless networking, this solid wireless LAN (WLAN) workhouse...

The way forward for BCX

Sep 1, 2015

The acquisition of Business Connexion (BCX) by Telkom has been subjected to numerous delays, but is now expected to go through by the end of August. Customers and partners of the successful IT company are understandably nervous about what will happen once it becomes...

Technology can boost customer satisfaction, profitability

Aug 30, 2015

Developments in technology and new business trends such as social networking and mobility have all resulted to make the customer king within the mobile-first, cloud-first era, writes Leon Wright, cloud & enterprise business group lead at Microsoft South Africa....

Where exactly is my data going?

Aug 30, 2015

With the days of unlimited data becoming a thing of the past, there has been a growing trend in customers using up mobile data much quicker than they were doing previously. Is this because user habits didn’t factor in just how data hungry our habits were or is there...

Information security the main barrier to IoT

Aug 30, 2015

Research conducted by Telecom Intelligence has revealed that information security remains the biggest inhibitor of the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), with 42% of respondents identifying security as one of the top two challenges for widespread adoption of...

Microsoft CEO takes top spot in tech leaders ranking

Aug 16, 2015

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella heads Juniper Research’s newly-released rankings of the most influential executives in the technology space, followed by Apple’s Chief Design Officer, Jony Ive. Microsoft & Apple Lead The rankings, which are based on Juniper’s...

This is not your father’s chamber

Apr 5, 2015

While international investors are searching for ways to get involved in more lucrative developing countries, local business is missing out. A collaborative technology offering is driving renewed interest in chambers of commerce as they re-invent themselves and their...

Teraco – Africa’s Switzerland of data centres

Mar 30, 2015

With sights firmly set on opening up sub-Saharan Africa’s telecoms market, Teraco – Africa’s leading vendor neutral colocation data centre operator and Internet exchange point (IXP) – is growing like Topsy

Data centres: when local is not so lekker

Mar 29, 2015

The local hosting arena is beleaguered by a lack of skills, outdated thinking, and antiquated platforms and pricing models. And while Icasa jumps from pillar to post, even POPI – the key legislation underpinning hosting – is pretty much pie-in-the sky, says Louis Jardim, Turrito Networks’ commercial director and cofounder. Eskom’s torpid turmoils also strike directly at the heart of going local. “While more and more of our customers want to migrate their services into data centres, power is becoming a major pricing constraint,” he says

Cisco, DST sign SKA MoU

Mar 26, 2015

Cisco and South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) Sign MoU for Investment Programme in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project

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