DST and SAP Africa renew ICT research partnership

On 29 November 2011 SAP and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) announced their support for an advanced human capital development programme in information and communication technology (ICT) in South Africa. Director-general DST, Dr. Phil Mjwara, and SAP Africa’s MD, Pfungwa Serima signed a memorandum of understanding… (more)

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by Chris Yelland, managing director, EE Publishers

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Next generation data centre ICT infrastructures

In addition to server consolidation and virtualisation, recent trends towards service-orientated architectures, Web 2.0 applications and cluster computing are accelerating the implementation of unified network fabrics in order to cope with the higher I/O throughput and greater bandwidth needed to deliver these services… (more)

The changing nature of ICT

Information and communication technology becoming a strain on resources? We must return to basics, and work smarter. As technology continues to develop we see a year ahead focused on unified communications and a lot of buzz around IPTV, video on demand, triple play and implementations of virtual servers, cloud computing and several additional technologies… (more)

Is government failing the SA ICT sector – or is the sector failing itself?

Since government is only one of the stakeholders in the sector, is it fair to ask what other stakeholders are doing in support of the sector? A journalist recently commented on South Africa’s presence at the recent CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Germany, contrasting South Africa’s “small stand hosting seven local companies under the umbrella of the Department of Trade and Industry” and “the enormous stands provided by other countries… (more)

Business intelligence – just another buzzword?

In ICT we are continually being bombarded by new buzzwords, often new words for the same services. It may be a good marketing ploy to keep rebranding but it may also cause confusion and build business resistance to what could be a useful tool to drive growth and profit. Is business intelligence (BI) another one of those marketing buzzwords?… (more)

Universities challenged by 21st century demands

It is often said that today’s university students will, in 20 years time, be doing jobs and using technologies that haven’t yet been invented. Cell phones, digital photography, the world-wide web, GPS, games consoles and iPods – none of these existed in their present forms 20 years ago… (more)

ICT must be part of the climate solution

According to  International Telecommunications Union (ITU), information and communication technology is the single most powerful tool humankind has at its disposal to avoid a potential climate catastrophe… (more)

The anatomy of an airport

In this current age of converging systems an airport is probably one of the most information communications technology (ICT) intensive users. All the systems are ICT based running on the TCP/IP platform. All the systems are integrated to form a whole while affording the individual systems the benefit of individuality via Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) while sharing a common communications system. To examine the anatomy of this system let us follow a passenger through the system and have a peek at what happens behind the scenes… (more)

SATNAC 2009 – an overview

Features editor Hans van de Groenendaal attended the Southern Africa Telecommunications (SATNAC) 2009 held in Swaziland from 31 August to 4 September. He highlights some of the presentations and discussions… (more)

Driving the economy through ICT

Nearly a decade ago, the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) began to actively engage in the development of the information communications technology and electronics sector (ICT&E). The broad objectives were to grow the ICT&E industry to increase employment, broaden participation, encourage exports and promote small business development in this important sector… (more)

Telkom surprises market

Telkom and AT&T surprised the market by announcing that the two companies are to extend AT&T’s global networking reach to sub-Saharan Africa and boost Telkom’s strategy to grow a strong ICT footprint on the African continent… (more)