Growing usage of mobile services, economic growth and the increased affordability of devices is expected to push Africa’s mobile subscriber base to 975 million by 2020.
Focus Softnet enlists Future Kenya as country partner
ERP and software solutions development firm Focus Softnet has announced that it has signed Future Kenya as its new partner in Kenya.
Data defence
Suni Munshani, CEO, Protegrity, discusses the evolution of data security in a dynamic business environment.
Expanding horizons
Taj ElKhayat, Managing Director, Middle East, Turkey, North, West, and Central Africa at Riverbed Technology, explains how to overcome challenges in location-independent computing.
Building blocks of the future
Last week, Schneider Electric discussed the importance of power consumption in Smart City development. We caught up with Thierry Chamayou, Vice President, IT Business, Middle East and Africa, and Philippe Arsonneau, SVP Global Sales, IT Business, for their take on the issue.
Taking a byte sized approach to Big Data
Ziad Nejmeldeen, Chief Scientist, Infor, looks at why organisations are struggling to capitalise on Big Data and highlights why embedded Data Science holds the key to the challenging trend.
New HP 3D printer targets manufacturers
HP has no plans to take its new industrial 3D printer into the desktop market for consumers, but it will likely scale the machine to take on large production parts.
AccessData announces company split
AccessData Group has announced the split of its businesses into two independent, global companies, AccessData and the newly formed Resolution1 Security, effective 1st January 2015.
AccessData announces company split
AccessData Group has announced the split of its businesses into two independent, global companies, AccessData and the newly formed Resolution1 Security, effective 1st January 2015.
Seagate announces Kinetic upgrade
Seagate has unveiled an upgrade to its Kinetic Open Storage platform, which has eliminated multiple layers of legacy software and hardware infrastructure.
Boom times
With organisations and companies out to improve and modernise their infrastructure in the near future, experts are predicting a huge increase in the Systems Integration market. However, this could mean big changes for the role of the modern SI professional.
Trust issues
Storing data in the public cloud can be both convenient and cost-effective. Vendors can do some things to ensure security, but is data stored on the public cloud ever truly safe? CNME investigates the benefits and pitfalls to storing data on the public cloud.
TP-LINK to increase Africa visibility
Networking and wireless solutions provider TP-LINK has announced it is increasing its efforts to grow its channel business in Africa.
Gartner identifies top strategic 2015 tech trends
Gartner has released its predictions for the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2015. …
Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility acquisition
Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion has been completed.
Logicom named official distributor of Cisco Meraki for UAE & KSA
Logicom, the regional distributor of technology solutions and services, has expanded its vendor portfolio with a new agreement with Cisco Meraki, where it was named as the official distributor for the vendor in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Eastern promise
At its Cloud Congress in Shanghai, Huawei unveiled a range of exciting new products, as well as results of its ‘Global Connectivity Index’. Deputy Editor Annie Bricker reports from the gathering.
Virtual virtues
After years of false starts, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has finally gone mainstream. If implemented correctly it can deliver substantial cost savings to enterprise IT shops. What are the risks and rewards involved in embarking on a VDI implementation for your organisation?
Insights to data security
Protegrity, a global provider of data-centric enterprise data security solutions, including advanced tokenisation and encryption solutions for databases, applications, Big …
IBM’s Rometty defends rocky financial results
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is moving quickly to quell concerns about the company’s sinking earnings and decision to pay more than a billion dollars to cast off its money-losing microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries.