Video Conferencing vital for forward thinking organisations
With fuel prices rocketing, highway tolls about to become a reality and government pushing to contain corporate carbon footprints, South African organisations have plenty of financial incentive to adopt video conferencing More...
Symantec survey reveals rogue clouds, hidden costs for SA enterprises
Organisations are widely migrating to the cloud to gain competitive advantages around speed, agility and flexibility according to Symantec Corp’s recent Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013 Survey. In fact, More...
South African ICT education to get a boost
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, is actively engaging with the academic community across South Africa to support secondary and university-level More...
Is ‘cost efficiency’ actually costing your organisation money?
In the current economic climate, many organisations are driven to cut costs, save money and improve cost efficiency across the board. One area that is typically under scrutiny is IT. As a result, organisations are More...
Big data, the Cloud and mobility in 2013
When it comes to predicting key areas of focus for IT in 2013, most analysts agree on three areas: big data, the Cloud and mobility. These trends are driven primarily by business’ desire to improve the customer More...
The changing channel – seeing the cloud as an opportunity, not a threat
A depressed economic climate, coupled with the ever-present challenges of shrinking IT budgets, reduced spend and lower margins, are issues which have plagued the channel for many years. Alain Schram, Chief Operating More...
HPs ‘out-of-the-box’ education initiative in SA
HP is to bring its innovative ‘classroom in a box’, a low cost solution for educational IT labs based on pre-installed schools equipment and thin client PCs in a refurbished shipping container, to South Africa. HP, More...
Tech leaders to showcase at Tech Demo Africa 2013
IT News Africa’s second annual demo conference, Tech Demo Africa 2013, is scheduled for 21 – 22 May at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, and is guaranteed to be even bigger than last year’s event. A session More...
Top 5 IT predictions for 2013
Technology is always developing. As many trends in 2012 became mainstream, a number of new factors will come into play in 2013 and impact the industry as a whole. Christo Briedenhann, Country manager for Riverbed More...
Mitsumi IT concludes GITEX 2012 high note
Mitsumi IT Distribution has concluded its GITEX debut successfully which run from October 14 – 18, 2012 at Dubai World Trade Centre. GITEX is the ICT business gateway to the Middle East, Africa and South Asia More...