Innovation

The hybrid balancing act

Dec 12, 2014

Businesses need to get to grips with the hybrid cloud as compliance demands increase. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg, senior systems engineering manager at VMware Southern Africa There’s little doubt that the demands on IT are more intense than ever. The proliferation of...

Cloud: big benefits for small businesses

Dec 9, 2014

Bernard Kur, head of product at Global Micro Solutions, looks at the opportunities available to smaller businesses when it comes to the cloud Having a cloud solution offers many benefits to business – scalability, reduced costs of software licenses, hardware and...

Innovation in the Clouds

Dec 4, 2014

By Clayton Booysen, Developer Relations Lead at IBM South Africa Cloud computing and more increasingly cloud services have put us on the cusp of a massive shift in how we work, communicate, and solve the big problems which also constitute the biggest market...

Bringing innovation home …

Nov 28, 2014

Innovation is the buzzword du jour, but it’s not so easy to nail down exactly how the CIO can position himself to lead the charge. We asked Mohamed Cassoojee, country manager of Software AG, to share some of his thoughts. What kinds of innovations should IT be...

Public IT cloud services hits critical innovation stage

Nov 4, 2014

Public IT cloud services spending will reach $56.6 billion in 2014 and grow to more than $127 billion in 2018, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). This represents a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8%, which is...

Prepare for tomorrow today

Oct 8, 2014

Business processes and the entire value chain of business operations will shift from a labor-driven and technology-enabled paradigm to a digital-driven and human-enabled model

Trio of disruptive technologies to hit businesses hard

Oct 2, 2014

3-D printing, Internet of Things, and biotech/healthcare IT leap to lead portfolio of emerging technologies rising on Cloud and Mobile’s long tail of disruption 3-D printing, Internet of Things (IoT), and biotech/ healthcare IT jumped into the top five of disruptive...

LTE ignites broadband wireless access

Sep 19, 2014

1.26 billion households do not have DSL, cable, or fibre-optic broadband. Fixed and mobile telcos want LTE to make the connection.

Presenting the case for driverless vehicles

Sep 18, 2014

Though there is progress on the technological side—both on sensor hardware and Artificial Intelligence—user acceptance, security, liability issues, and regulation remain huge bottlenecks.

Mobility, analytics will drive strong IT spending growth in South Africa financial sector

Sep 18, 2014

Strong investment in 3rd Platform technologies like Big Data analytics, cloud, and mobility to jump as CIOs accept transformative capabilities of these solutions on the way business is conducted.

Big data: 73% of corporates have invested – or plan to

Sep 17, 2014

Organisations don't have a plan for what they're going to do next. Picking everything isn't a strategy. It indicates a fear of missing out on an opportunity yet to be defined. Also, there may be a certain amount of hubris at work. If organisations can 'do big data' on transactions and log data, they may assume they can also leverage more challenging data sources as easily

Typical family home could contain more than 500 smart devices by 2022

Sep 9, 2014

Smart Homes to Offer Numerous Innovative Digital Business Opportunities The falling cost of adding sensing and communications to consumer products will mean that a typical family home, in a mature affluent market, could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022,...

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