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Technology can empower government services

Mar 17, 2017

Latest-generation enterprise technologies have the potential to improve financial and operational management within public sector entities, and enhance service delivery to citizens, write John Mokiti, business development manager: government and public services for...

Pinnacle aims to make an impact in 2017

Jan 30, 2017

Pinnacle is among South Africa’s leading ICT distribution companies. Built on a foundation of entrepreneurial spirit, the distributor offers its partners a broad range of world-class technology products, seamlessly delivered across an expansive footprint. Pinnacle’s...

SAP sets its sights on the SME market

Jan 30, 2017

SAP has actively seeking new resellers to help it reach the burgeoning SME (small and medium enterprise) sector, typically with cloud-based offerings. Rich Philips, head of partner management for SAP EMEA, says the pervasiveness of cloud and mobility means that...

Change brings challenges for SA’s resellers

Jan 30, 2017

Change, they say, is the only constant – and this is certainly true for the ICT reseller channel in South Africa. It’s been almost a perfect storm of change for resellers, with new technologies and market consolidation both taking a toll on local players. But the...

The road to safe and smart cities

Jan 30, 2017

The idea of smart cities is top of the agenda for most countries: technology has the potential to make cities operate smarter, more efficiently and – most importantly of all – more safely. This is why the trend to smart cities is starting with the implementation of...

Xmas wishes: what the channel really wants

Dec 2, 2016

Storage in the age of digitalisation and the technology behind physical security, as well as a reportback from the Gartner Symposium, VMWorld, and Huawei Safe Cities.

Affordable flash reshaping economics of enterprise storage

Oct 10, 2016

The advent of new flash drives based on triple level cell (TLC) 3D NAND technology promise to reshape the enterprise storage market by making solid-state drive (SSD) arrays more affordable than ever – positioning them for wider adoption in the mainstream market. With...

Reports of tape’s demise are greatly exaggerated

Oct 10, 2016

As with most things vintage or old, tape storage has through the years been the highlight of many technology obituary pages. The basic thinking is that current technologies like disk storage and cloud offer more advantages like faster throughput and reliability....

Rethinking cloud storage

Sep 7, 2016

The growing acceptance of cloud computing and storage are seeing decision-makers refining their backup strategies to be even more efficient and cost effective. Danie Marais, founder of the software division at Redstor, feels that innovations in the market will herald...

NAS with personal cloud ideal for SMMEs

Sep 7, 2016

Cloud storage is a technology that at the outset was typically viewed as something for the consumer market alone. However, in time more and more businesses began to realise the advantages of having centralised online storage solutions that could be accessed and shared...

5G: who’s in the driver’s seat?

Aug 23, 2016

The race is on to establish the next generation of mobile networks. Each generational change in wireless networks has been prompted by a different force. New service demand sparked the move from 1G to 2G, regulation and licensing were the triggers for the migration to...

5G could bridge the digital divide

Aug 23, 2016

The advent of technology forces such as big data, analysis, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to support digitisation in business brought about next generation connectivity infrastructure. Experts in ICT managed services have described the imminence of...

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