Cloud in South Africa

South Africa's first Inspiring Fifty women

Out of the 252 women in tech who were nominated for Inspiring Fifty South Africa, the final top 50 have been announced...

8 Aug 2017

It's time to start thinking about our digital carbon footprint

The media is at the forefront of generating awareness over environmental issues...

By Pietari Kaapa 3 days ago

#CEMAfrica2017: "Be an experience business or be out of business" - Adobe

CEM Africa attendees were presented with a choice of workshops to attend throughout the two-day summit. Here's why I'm glad I went with the session by James McDonald, solution consultant at Adobe, on how to be an experience-driven business...

By Leigh Andrews 17 Aug 2017

Transforming agricultural education through technology

When it comes to training and agri-education, technology is the perfect catalyst. Just as progress is being made in farming techniques, so is the use of similar advances to drive skills and education...

By Howard Blight 14 Aug 2017

Nominations open for IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the Year

Marking its 60th anniversary, the Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) is calling for nominations for its Annual IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the Year Awards...

3 Aug 2017

Microsoft SA, Brightwave bring connectivity to 213,000 students in Eastern Cape

Microsoft South Africa and internet service provider Brightwave, have signed an agreement to bring Wi-Fi and TV white spaces technology based on broadband access to more than 213,000 students in the Eastern Cape...

31 Jul 2017

New MDs for Oracle SA, Cisco

Oracle South Africa has appointed Niral Patel as its new managing director and technology leader and Cisco has appointed Ali Amer managing director for global service provider sales in the Middle East and Africa...

24 Jul 2017

Microsoft profit rises on shift to cloud computing

SAN FRANCISCO, US: Microsoft has reported that its quarterly earnings were lifted on the back of its shift to focusing on computing services hosted in the internet cloud...

24 Jul 2017

First supported Linux for SAP HANA on Google Cloud

With the addition of Google Cloud Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is now available on three major public cloud providers...

21 Jul 2017

Vote now for Women in ICT - Partnership for Change Awards

The second edition of the Women in ICT - Partnership for Change Awards is open for nominations from and for eligible female professionals...

20 Jul 2017

Accenture simplifies cloud migration in sub-Saharan Africa

At the recent Amazon Web Services summit, I had the chance to chat to Kabelo Makwane, managing director for Cloud First business at Accenture in sub-Saharan Africa about the Accenture Cloud Platform...

By Ilse van den Berg 17 Jul 2017

New Microsoft data centres to boost enterprise cloud adoption

With Microsoft planning to build hyper-scale data centres in South Africa, enterprise adoption of IaaS, SaaS, and other cloud services is reportedly set to get a massive boost...

12 Jul 2017

Jumo appoints Amazon EC2 founder as active independent director

Jumo has appointed Chris Pinkham as an active independent director, effective immediately. Pinkham left his role as VP of engineering at Twitter in February 2017...

8 Jul 2017

The importance of finance, HR collaboration with unified cloud

A new Oracle and MIT Technology Review study reveals the importance of collaboration between finance and human resources (HR) teams with a unified cloud...

7 Jul 2017

International

Could Google become the dominant force in hospitality?

Google, whose mantra used to be ‘Don't be evil' (until it dropped it for the motto ‘Do the right thing'), is almost omnipresent in our lives these days. We use it for all sorts of online searches, whether it's trying to access arcane information or find our way from A to B.

By Stuart Pallister 13 hours ago

Australia to regulate virtual currency exchanges like Bitcoin

SYDNEY - Australia is set to regulate virtual currency exchanges such as Bitcoin and strengthen the powers of its financial intelligence agency Austrac as it cracks down on money laundering and terrorism financing.

3 days ago

Apple axes iPod nano and shuffle

SAN FRANCISCO, US: Touch became the last iPod standing late last week as Apple removed nano and shuffle stand-alone digital music players from its lineup.

31 Jul 2017

Samsung facing growing threats despite record profits

SEOUL, South Korea: Sprawling South Korean conglomerate Samsung Electronics has recovered from a humiliating recall fiasco and the arrest of its de facto leader with remarkable speed, analysts said, after the tech giant stunned investors with record-breaking profits.

31 Jul 2017

Travel agents to benefit from travel aggregator platform, booking engine

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: TP Connects, one of the first International Air Transport Association (IATA) certified travel aggregators and IT providers, working with British Airways as a new distribution capability (NDC) service provider, has integrated directly to the airline's NDC APIs with a B2B reseller platform and internet booking engine for online travel agencies.

28 Jul 2017

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