African consumers are increasingly searching online platforms with commercial intent, which include querying prices of goods, and researching where products or services can be purchased. According to research by Google South Africa, there was an increase of 49% in query volumes in Nigeria, 37% in South Africa and 33% in Kenya, during 2014. Africa’s growing middle […]
Data centre professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard underfloor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data centre mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data centre is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer term evolutionary changes exist. This […]
Schneider Electric announced at HP Discover that it completed the integration of its Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution, StruxureWare for Data Centers, with HP’s Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB). Enabling an increased level of communication between IT Service Management (ITSM) and DCIM platforms, this integration provides data centre managers with more cohesive management […]
Dimension Data recently announced that three new global cloud data centres will go live to address the ongoing demand for enterprise-class cloud services in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and next month in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The addition of these three new managed cloud platform (MCP) locations will bring to 13 the number of Dimension Data’s […]
The international BACnet standard, which ensures interoperability between building automation devices from different manufacturers, is steadily gaining in importance as new features are being added. Revision 12 of BACnet delivers a series of innovations which Beckhoff has already implemented in its BACnet stack for TwinCAT. The rail-mountable Embedded PCs CX8091, CX9020, CX5010 and CX5020 […]
Stellenbosch University (SU) is hosting the Berlin10 Open Access (OA) conference to be held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study conference centre in November 2012, the first of the series of Berlin Conferences that will be hosted in Africa. In support of the global trend to opening access to electronic resources, SU became a […]
