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South Africa based Jasco Broadcast Solutions, signed an partnership agreement to represent the leading content storage management solution provider Front Porch Digital for the entire Southern African Development Community region, Southern and Eastern Africa as well as Mauritius and Seychelles. Front Porch Digital the leaders in content storage management (CSM), migration and preservation of videotape to digital files. The company delivers end-to-end solutions for cost-effectively digitising, accessing, and preserving media and accelerating the migration of videotape to optimised and secure digital storage. Read More…

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World’s leading storage solution provider, WD announced the appointment of Anamika Budree, as its country manager of South Africa. With this move WD expects to gain greater penetration in the local market and establish a strong base in South Africa. During the course of 2011, WD gained ground in the retail market in South Africa, signing an agreement with Massmart to stock branded WD products across stores throughout the country. The vendor also has three distributors with distinctly different markets.Read More…

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Leading South African IT consultants, RDB Consulting announced to have partnered with Oracle to offer database security. After working closely with Oracle for such a long time brining Oracle’s database security products into RDB portfolio was a natural extension. Having this database knowledge, experience and expertise is vital for adequate database security and for the running and maintenance of security products. RDB now is able to offer a full spectrum of services around the database including security providing its clients with access to a complete solution from a single vendor.Read More…

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South Africa based 4most, the SAP Business One software specialist entered the fast growing Zambian market for accounting, financial and ERP solution designed specifically for companies operating in the high-growth SMME and SMB sectors through Interim Management and Consultancy (IMAC). Zambia has a strong market with 60 000 SMME businesses and 20 000 SMBs and these entrepreneurial companies can reap the many business benefits that accrue from the affordable SAP Business One mid-market financial and ERP software solutions.Read More…

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South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

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Hitachi Data Systems plans to acquire Shoden Data Systems (Shoden), a leading provider of data center technology solutions in South Africa and across the sub-Saharan African continent subjected to approval from respective authorities in the African countries in which Hitachi Data Systems and Shoden conduct operations. “We are very excited about the prospect of joining the Hitachi Data Systems family,” said Marc Trevenen, managing director, Shoden Data Systems.
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healthbridge, the principle healthcare information exchange company in the tradebridge stable, contracted outsourcing specialist RDB Consulting to assist it with the setup, management and maintenance of its mission critical Oracle database. tradebridge is the leading South African value added transaction switch. They provide solutions that enable immediate, secure and reliable messaging between organisations that support underlying financial transactions. Read More…

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Toshiba Africa recently appointed Sahara Computers as the official distributor for its retail range of laptops and peripherals in South Africa. With this new development, Toshiba expects to tap into the growing market for consumer technology products with the rise of middle class in the country. Sahara’s expertise and success in furniture retail, as well as its national reach to independent retailers, will make the company’s products and services more widely available to end-users, where there has been a growing demand for the Toshiba brand.Read More…

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Pieter le Roux is an technical expert who works as an Technical Director with one of the leading ICT solution provider from South Africa, The Webcom Group. In this article Pieter talks about the benefits of Virtualised desktops for standardisation, security and performance in distributed environments. Virtualisation is one of several buzzwords currently making the rounds within the Information Communication Technology (ICT) departments of most large corporates, heralded as a convenient way to reduce costs and improve the overall management of ICT, including licensing, within the organisation.Read More…

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The Human Science Research Council (HSRC) is tasked with conducting large scale, policy-relevant projects in the social sciences sector, both for public sector users and non-governmental organisations as well as international development agencies. The organisation is responsible for providing cutting-edge research and for disseminating the results of those projects and plays a key role in helping the development of South Africa. Read More…

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South African IT distributor, Esquire signed an distribution agreement with the world’s fastest growing and leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming lifestyle peripherals Razer USA. Razer is also behind the official PC accessories designed to meet the demand from fans of games such as Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic and more. Esquire Technologies Group Managing Director, Asgar Mahomed, expressed his delight at the addition of Razer to the company’s portfolio by saying, “Razer adds a new dimension to our specialised Gaming Division headed up by Product Manager, Rickus Roodt, who works closely with resellers that represent the best of gamers in the industry.”
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South Africa based archive, migration, collaboration and messaging services provider, Soarsoft Africa announced that it recently signed an distribution agreement with Binary Tree to distribute its products across the African region. Binary Tree is a leading provider of software for migrating enterprise messaging users and applications to on-premises and cloud-based versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.Read More…