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More than one way to the cloud
South African enterprises are moving to the cloud. According to George Etheredge, ICT research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, the local cloud market is worth $140 million and growing. South Africa is way ahead of other African markets, with the…
Cloud Transforms your Intranet
Cloud-based software delivery models are quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ in enterprise IT. In a recent survey by analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC), in partnership with Microsoft, only 8% of respondents admitted to being disinterested in adopting cloud solutions.…
Asking the right questions about POPI and compliance
Digital transformation is touching every sector as well as every industry, disrupting the traditional market leaders, value chains and conventional ways of doing business along the way. While the technology (IoT, big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence) and the…
Telecoms trends for 2017 – the year IoT comes into its own
2017 promises to be an exciting year in the field of IT and telecommunication as projects and technologies that have been unable to get out of the starting blocks for the last two to three years, take off. The big…
New security from Palo Alto Networks available through Westcon-Comstor
Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa is providing reseller partners the opportunity to provide end-user customers advanced security features, at scale, following the announcement from vendor partner Palo Alto Networks that it has expanded its range of next-generation firewall devices with new hardware…
SA Cloud market worth $140m and growing
South African enterprises are moving to the cloud. According to George Etheredge, ICT research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, the local cloud market is worth $140 million and growing. South Africa is way ahead of other African markets, with the…
BT links up 5 biggest foreign exchange markets
BT (British Telecoms) has announced that it will be linking up the world’s five main foreign exchange (FX) locations to help boost the competitiveness of its global financial industry customers. The company will now be offering BT Radianz FX express,…
How secure is data in a cloud ?
Business leaders need to optimise and grow their businesses and cloud can certainly reduce costs and improve inefficiencies. However, how secure is data in the cloud ? A concern for any company is giving up control of its data to…
Electrum to simplify Value Added Services
In a bid to boost revenue by hundreds of millions of Rands, retailers are increasingly selling virtual products and services known as Value Added Services (VAS). However, it is not as simple as selling normal stock as VAS which includes products…
Why the pop-up store cloud is unlikely to burst anytime soon
Enter any mall today and you are likely to come across the latest retail fad – the pop-up store. With the concept of ‘here today and gone tomorrow’ at its centre, this fresh, novel and creative concept has taken the…
Content Guru to deliver Verint solutions in the cloud
Verint Systems has entered into a global partnership with Content Guru. This partnership will enable Content Guru to deliver Verint customer engagement solutions—including workforce optimisation and speech analytics—as an integrated customer engagement suite in the cloud. Verint’s digital first engagement…
Infotech announces market-leading acquisition
Infotech Limited is proud to announce that its acquisition deal with Urbanise, a globally renowned provider of IoT (Internet of Things) and service delivery platform for buildings, is going ahead. Urbanise is an ASX listed global creator of a cloud-based…
Westcon-Comstor to offer resellers Azure on its BlueSky platform
Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa is, effective immediately, enabling local reseller partners the opportunity to purchase Azure from its BlueSky digital aggregation platform. The announcement allows local resellers to purchase core components of the Azure platform locally, and digitally, all via its…
Over 554 million records stolen in first half of 2016
More than 554 million data records were stolen during the first half of 2016, a 31% increase from the previous six months – and that was just from the enterprises that reported their breaches. Unfortunately, many organisations that experienced a…
BlackBerry introduces cloud-based communications platform for developers
BlackBerry Limited has entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market with the introduction of its BBM Enterprise SDK (software development kit) that aims to enable developers to integrate messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services. The…
IBM invests $70 million to bring digital skills for African youth
IBM is investing $70 million in building digital, cloud and cognitive IT skills to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa. The initiative, “IBM Digital – Nation Africa,” aims to equip 25 million people with IT skills over the…
