by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
How do existing businesses transform successfully into platform companies? This is the focus of noted strategist and business leader Bramhope Group CEO Isak Marais, who comments: “The Bramhope experience is similar to those of established unicorn platform companies...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | news
BlackFog, has signed a distribution agreement with Mustek to resell its data privacy and cybersecurity solution. Mustek’s multinational product portfolio includes: Acer, ASUS, Samsung, Lenovo, Brother, and Microsoft Volume Licensing among others. It will now add...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | news
The worldwide tablet market returned to growth in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19) with 37,6-million units shipped globally for a year-over-year increase of 1,9%. This is according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | news
Liquid Telecom has won the ‘Best African Wholesale Carrier’ award for the eighth consecutive year at the Global Carrier Awards and was also recognised at the World Communications awards for the best ‘Regional Wholesale Operator of the Year’ for a second year in a row....
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | news
Worldwide end-user spending on wearable devices will total $52-billion in 2020 — an increase of 27% from 2019. This is according to the latest forecast from Gartner, which predicts that worldwide wearable devices end-user spending is on pace to reach $41-billion in...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 1, 2019 | news
A seven-year partnership between Develop South Africa and Evolution Technology Group (ETG) to supply multi-functional devices to National Treasury and other government bodies around the country, has seen both companies grow significantly during this period. Develop SA...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 28, 2019 | news
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Microsoft South Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which paves the way for government adoption of public cloud services. The MOU, announced at Govtech in Durban, allows for government departments,...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 28, 2019 | Product Showcase
Dell Technologies has announced updates to Dell EMC PowerMax. Dell EMC PowerMax is first-to-market with dual port Intel Optane SSDs and the use of Storage Class Memory (SCM) as persistent storage. Dell Technologies is also announcing that NVMe-oF is now available for...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 28, 2019 | Product Showcase
The Xerox VersaLink B600 series range of products are cloud-connected, mobile connectivity, customisable, app-based, secure and smart. The range of products comprise of two single function printers (B600 and B610) and two multifunctional devices (B605 and B615). The...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 28, 2019 | Trends and Analysis
Over the next decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) holds the potential to deliver $11-trillion in new business activity each year. To capture this potential, organisations need to implement an Intelligent Edge, an architecture that is fully connected, secured,...