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  • VMware empowers partners

    Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor VMware says it has more than 27 000 partners in EMEA as the company continues to grow its partner  ecosystem in the region....
  • Who still cares how much money VOIP can save?

    Riaan Pietersen, TeleMasters
    Yes, voice over IP (VOIP) may deliver cost savings. But this shouldn’t be the main reason to look at VOIP...
  • Don’t be quick to eliminate offline media

    Felix Erken, Junk Mail
    The debate over whether online media will replace print has been going for years, but South Africa’s media dynamics...
  • Oracle goes big on cloud, social

    Larry Ellison, Oracle
    Some 50 000 delegates, from 123 countries, gathered in San Francisco in early October for Oracle OpenWorld. The even...
  • HIGH-SPEED MOBILE TECH


    How SA will benefit from LTE
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  • Local IT skills’ gradual recovery

    Carmen Short, Avanade SA
    Although signs indicate the skills shortage is improving, progress is slow...
  • Countdown to Saphila 2012

    Pfungwa Serima, SAP Africa
    The largest SAP customerrun conference in South Africa, Saphila 2012, is taking place at Sun City, from 28 to ...
  • PC era makes way for cloud

    James Stevenson, Citrix
    About 15 years ago, in the midst of the PC era, when a company designed its PC architecture, there were assumpti...
  • Girls get wrong impression of tech


    Technology, at the end of the day, is just a platform, and you don’t have to be a “techie” to have a career in tech. This was the argument p...
  • Recommended Reading

    Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices


    San Murugesan and GR Gangadharan discuss green IT, its various facets, and sho...
  • Crime stats, what stats?


    So crime statistics are out and showing an improvement and the police should be congratulated. ...
  • Power management – who cares?

    Andrew Smith, Kaseya
    It is projected that Eskom’s electricity hikes from 2009 to 2013 will reach 260%. This is substantial, and will impa...
  • The era of water management

    Ahmed Simjee, IBM
    The world is going to have to get very serious, very quickly, about something it was able to ignore last century: water m...
  • Companies fall short on authentication

    Michael Henderson, XDS Credit Bureau
    Most organisations are good at automating, authorising and auditing identity, but they fall short...
  • A Web of lies


    Freedom House, a US advocacy group, found that an increasing number of undemocratic governments use violence, censorship and arrest t...
  • Tech innovation gets €30m

    President Jacob Zuma
    The European Union (EU) has provided €30 million to SA’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) for t...
  • The week in review

    At Home

    The Western Cape Education Department recently opened the Northpine Technical High School. It is one of five technical high schools in the province. The other four are Delft Technical HS, Oude Molen, Belville and Drostdy Technical High S...
  • E-tolling: Govt considers fuel levy

    Transport minister Ben Martins
    Transport minister Ben Martins says he will consider an increase on the fuel levy as an alternativ...
  • U-filing takes Unemployment Insurance Fund online

    The Department of Labour (DOL) announced U-filing, a new electronic system for the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)....
  • Consumer Commission loses MTN case

    Former NCC commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi
    JSE-listed cellular operator MTN has been successful in its bid t...