Cloud on the horizon
South African business is still sceptical - but this might change.
The conundrum that all companies face.
When the disruptive force of cloud meets immutable software licensing models, the impossible becomes possible.
Pressure on operators may be the solution to lower telecoms costs.
The promise of business intelligence has been around seemingly forever, but delivery has been erratic.
From being a grudge purchase, business continuity solutions are beginning to be seen as business improvement opportunities.
The ITWeb enterprise mobility roundtable tried to establish if industry could offer sage advice for local businesses grappling with the issue.
Since SA can't compete on wages with India or the Philippines, local BPO players tend to focus on higher-value offerings.
Despite the attendant hype, virtualisation of the desktop in corporate SA has been moving at less than breakneck speed.
Big data is like teenage sex. Everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they're doing it.
ITC's final determination to terminate complaints by TPL followed a December 2013 decision to reject patent claims by InterDigital.
The trade-off between security and usability in personal computing has long challenged the industry, never more so than with BYOD.
The ICT industry has long been an environment in which the merits of different technologies are robustly debated. But as cloud takes hold, that's changing.
