The Summit
7th - 9th May 2013
Summit Venue
Durban, South Africa
Since 1999, Africa has experienced a continuous period of economic growth with foreign investments increasing at an exponential rate. The struggle of both US and European economies in the face of the recession has made Africa ripe for investments.
White Papers
Websense: Unified Content Security in Practice
Part one of the Websense® white paper series on unified content security explains why today's organizations need a unified content security solution: among many other challenges, fast-evolving malware, blended threats, internally initiated data leakage, and an increasingly borderless enterprise, have rendered traditional point product approaches less effective while driving up costs and complexity. Part two in the series subsequently defines a unified security solution as one that incorporates unified content analysis, a unified platform, and unified management. It also enumerates the capabilities and requirements that must be met by each of these components. In this third and final installment, we introduce the Websense TRITONTM solution - the industry's first and only solution to combine industry-leading Web security, email security, and data loss prevention security technologies into one unified architecture.
Stulz: State of the Art Energy Efficient Data Centre Air Conditioning
Increasing energy costs and limited resources of available electricity are driving the data centre industry to the use of energy efficient technical equipment. Dynamic Free Cooling® is a control concept for data centre's air conditioning systems combining Hybrid Indirect Free Cooling Precision Air Conditioning Units, fan speed controlled drycooler and speed controlled central pumps to a highly efficient precision cooling system. All system components are centrally controlled to minimise overall energy consumption depending on the ambient temperature and the room load conditions.
STS: Independent 3rd Party Verification
The utilisation of IT vendors has become common place during most medium to large scale software implementations. CIOs make the strategic decision to seek out resourcing partners because of the following... A Whitepaper by Software Testing Solutions
Confidence in the Cloud: Five Ways to Capitalize with Symantec
Cloud computing is gaining significant traction as a new IT delivery model with potential business and financial benefits. Because cloud computing is still relatively new, organizations are grappling with what this emerging delivery model is, what some of the potential barriers are, and how best to take advantage of it. IT managers, therefore, need to understand how to capitalize on the benefits while mitigating potential risks so they can have confidence in the cloud.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage
Global economic circumstances are affecting how organizations are looking at the IT environment. A tougher business climate, aggravated by volatility, increased competition and smaller or thriftier customer budgets means more than just making do with less. In a time when everything seems like a top IT priority, enterprises need significantly better cost-efficiencies in the data center, as well as alignment with changing business, environmental and regulatory requirements. At the same time, organizations must still meet application demands for performance, scalability, security and availability.
Repositioning Outsourcing the Sustainable Way!
Increasingly, companies are recognizing this shift in demand for a comprehensive strategy to provide an integrated philosophy, and are organizing their business models around core components to realize strategic transformation to bring about an integrated business value. Enterprises will need to increasingly compete more effectively for increasing operational efficiency and productivity, improving innovation and reducing costs. Outsourcing presents a wider availability of efficient global delivery models that allow both cost and operational optimization for their products and services. These new global capabilities have enabled some businesses to reduce the overall costs through the use of Applications Outsourcing. This measure complements the organizations internal IT initiatives and addresses the overarching goal of greater competitiveness. A Whitepaper by Zensar Technologies
Delivering FIFA’s Next Generation Solution Platform for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event held across the globe, once in every four years. Widely viewed and followed globally by a cumulative audience of over 26 billion, it is a premier international sporting experience. Presently, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa involves 32 teams competing for titles at different venues spread across the host nation for a period of a month. By Mahindra Satyam
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