With the African ICT sector viewed as a vehicle for economic growth, TechSmart Business spoke to Dimension Data’s Basha Pillay about the challenges and opportunities facing enterprises in the coming years. FULL STORY >

As the pace of data growth and market change picks up, information solutions systems need to stay a step ahead – because what happened last week is old news, says HDS’ Shaun Barendsen. FULL STORY >

Stuart Cheverton from Hitachi Data Systems South Africa comments on the changing role of IT vendors. IT vendors are well placed to play a role in bridging the gap between business and IT, says Stuart Cheverton, business development consultant –... FULL STORY >

With Hitachi’s new technology, customers gain the most available, automated and agile IT infrastructure for today’s dynamic business needs. This is what Continuous Cloud Infrastructure offers businesses. FULL STORY >

Many companies are finding themselves swamped in a quagmire of data, wondering how to manage this effectively. Hitachi Data Systems recently launched its Continues Cloud Infrastructure, which address a number of key issues surrounding storage.... FULL STORY >

The paradigm shift in enterprise computing presents an ideal opportunity for enterprises across Africa to innovate and gain competitive advantage, says IBM. FULL STORY >

It should come as no surprise that the biggest technological impacts on IT departments in 2013 were Mobile and Big Data. Both issues also dominated conversations in the storage arena last year and with employees now increasingly working... FULL STORY >

With data monetisation raising growing interest among enterprises (and their FDs), Ayanda Dlamini of LGR Telecommunications points out that making more of data does not require a big investment upfront. FULL STORY >

New Hitachi data systems technology delivers a business-defined approach for IT infrastructure. FULL STORY >

Riverbed unveils SteelFusion, the first branch converged infrastructure that centralises data in the data centre. FULL STORY >

Turmoil broke out earlier this week with the discovery of the so-called Heartbleed bug, an OpenSSL vulnerability affecting massive portions of the web. FULL STORY >

The successful implementation of ‘game-changing’ transformational technology lies in the back office says Christo Briedenhann, Regional Director at Riverbed Technology. Meet the 25% of organisations who are maximising their... FULL STORY >

EMC believes that its latest enterprise technology has the ability to truly unlock the promise of Big Data. FULL STORY >

South African data centres are starting to embrace green technologies in an effort to boost operational efficiencies. Lance Harris looks into the new trends. FULL STORY >

The Visual Networking Index (VNI) is part of Cisco’s ongoing effort to forecast and analyze the growth and use of IP networks worldwide. The most recent report details the expected growth of mobile data traffic over the next five... FULL STORY >