Top reasons why big data analytics is the heart of the digital transformation in the channel
By Press Release 6 March 2017Digital transformation is reshaping the way the channel does business across all industries. The channel is no different says, Marco Pozzoni, EMEA & India sales director at NetApp, and it requires a... FULL STORY >
How secure is data in a cloud?
By Press Release 20 February 2017Business 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? FULL STORY >
Seagate reportedly has 16 TB hard drive in the works for 2018
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 30 January 2017Making it the single largest magnetic disk drive ever, if it is produced and released. FULL STORY >
Data Destruction - more than just deleting files
By Press Release 24 January 2017It is often assumed that once data has been marked for disposal, it no longer requires much attention. However, it is essential for security that data is permanently destroyed, deleted or erased from devices, notes Xperien. FULL STORY >
Trends for Machine Learning in South Africa for 2017
By Press Release 12 January 2017Machine learning as a subset of Artificial Intelligence is an emerging trend in South Africa, with demand for data scientists rising sharply and university programmes incorporating the discipline in study programmes. However, still a long way... FULL STORY >
Facebook, Twitter and others are creating database of terrorist content
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 6 December 2016The end goal for this database is to pool together photos and videos used by terrorist organisations to recruit people via social media. FULL STORY >
Internet Solutions enters the consumer market with MWEB acquisition
By Press Release 2 December 2016Internet Solutions, the pan-African communications service provider, today announced that through its parent company Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd, it has entered an agreement to acquire the business of MWEB Connect (Pty) Ltd. for... FULL STORY >
Anglo American halves data centre floor space, improves power consumption
By Press Release 29 November 2016Anglo American plc has consolidated three separate data rooms into one smaller, more efficient and easier to monitor data centre. This project has allowed the globally diversified mining business to reduce floor space... FULL STORY >
Dimension Data predicts IT Trends for Africa in 2017
By Press Release 29 November 2016Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today published its top IT predictions for 2017, and the focus on digital is set to remain the key trend in the industry for the next 12 months. FULL STORY >
HP's The Machine delivers proof-of-concept in memory-driven computing
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 29 November 2016Going from a research project and grand idea to delivering its first fully fledged test, HP's The Machine shows how memory and photonics can work. FULL STORY >
Twitter warns developers making surveillance tools
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 23 November 2016Hinging heavily on public APIs, Twitter is making a concerted effort to keep its users’ data safe from developers creating surveillance tools. FULL STORY >
Big Data: Cross-Industry Data Sharing
By Press Release 22 November 2016The vast amount of data generated and collected each day is staggering, and data’s ability to align and grow companies within any single industry – even across industries – is truly unprecedented. Innovation Groups’ Andries van Staden discusses Big... FULL STORY >
Data centres in the cloud: what’s the risk to your business?
By Press Release 8 November 2016the power of computing is moving to the cloud. You don’t need a powerful, clunky machine anymore because data is being accessed through even more powerful infrastructure built around the incredible processing power that now exists... FULL STORY >
Verbatim South Africa gets South African ownership
By Staff Writer 7 November 2016Data storage technology company, Verbatim Ltd. - a wholly-owned company of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation - has transferred its South African entity to CrossAfrica Holdings (Pty) Ltd, as a going concern, with effect from 1 October 2016. FULL STORY >
The Data Office Unpacked: Its Importance and Practicality
By Press Release 2 November 2016Selling data, data analytics and providing information for good is a business that TransUnion has been involved in for well over a century which only makes its sustainable value that much more apparent, even before digitisation saw data... FULL STORY >
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