Reports started in early 2015 regarding the expansion of privately owned data centre infrastructure provider Teraco’s Johannesburg data centre with its expected completion set for early 2017 and latest reports by tech news giant MyBroadband has new news that its completion could be set for end 2016. The company raised R400m from Barclays Africa in…
It isn’t easy maintaining a small business network, and it requires time and energy to keep things on lockdown, ensuring that you are able to keep your sensitive data from being accessed by competitors or anyone else looking at exploiting your business information. Even for an experienced IT professional, managing a business network is a…
In a world where video surveillance use is becoming increasingly important for commercial and residential properties and even in urban areas, video analytics is set to drive the future. End users today are struggling with the challenges of an increasing number of cameras with higher resolution that produce huge amounts of data and ther development…
The South African government has yet again decided to side with repressive regimes such as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia by declining to sign the UN’s resolution for freedom of expression on the internet, an act that counters the country’s constitution. The resolution which South Africa, among countries like India and Indonesia refused to sign,…
Hikvision has for many years been a brand that we have heavily relied on when providing CCTV and video surveillance solutions to customers, being a high-quality but affordable surveillance system that has a camera for almost every scenario. Hikvision is currently the largest manufacturer of surveillance and biometric equipment in the world but being the…
The latest addition to the ESAPARTNER product family is a highly-advanced VoIP PBX system that caters for the SOHO and SMME market, offering a complete communication solution in one on-premise device. The devices come from the Far South range of Com-X boxes that act as a full PBX and Integrated Access Gateway. With the Com-X…
Akamai released it quarter 1 State of the Internet report at the end of June which among other things showed the average speeds for broadband throughout the world. The report shows that South Africa currently has an average broadband speed of 6.5Mbps which is not the slowest on the continent but came significantly lower than…