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Discovery Vitality announced today a timeous new reward for members – a month of Netflix for the cost of a coffee or smoothie. For a limited time, Discovery Vitality is offering members an extra incentive to stay fit. From 3 April 2021 until 3 July 2021, you can access a R250 Netflix reward by attaining 150 Discovery Miles for a month. “We have always enhanced our rewards aligned to what we know members will enjoy most as an incentive for keeping fit and healthy. Netflix is the premium streaming platform for current content, and we want to offer our members…
Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) has proceeded with the procurement of an integrated business information system with a total value of €6.5 million (R112 million). The system will be developed and implemented by the consortium of Intrasoft and OTE. The new system signifies a new era of digitization for all administrative corporate processes. The new system is aimed at renovating and upgrading all processes in the fields of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resource Management (HRM), Fixed Asset Management (EAM – Enterprise Asset Management), Planning and Execution of Technical Tasks (WFM – Workforce Management) and Project Management (PS –…
The National Treasury says its technicians are working around the clock to solve a technical problem that saw its e-Tender portal experience technical difficulties. In a statement, the department on Wednesday said the ICT server infrastructure that hosts the e-Tender portal suffered a crash caused by a technical failure. “This resulted in data corruption, leading to the unavailability of the site. Technicians have been hard at work to solve the problem. Updates will be provided on progress and it is expected to be resolved as a matter of priority,” National Treasury said. The e-Tender portal downtime does not impact on…
Absa Group, one of the largest financial service providers in Africa, has launched a cloud incubator initiative in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud services provider, to enhance its cloud computing skills across its operations in Africa. As one of the largest cloud adopters in Africa, Absa is promoting cloud fluency as part of its broader efforts to promote learning, experimentation and innovation across the organisation to enhance the banking experience for its customers. By migrating to the cloud, companies can eliminate the expense of building and managing on-site data centres while gaining the ability to reduce infrastructure…
Microsoft revealed that it is the first cloud provider that is exploring two-phase immersion cooling technology. The tech giant said this experiment is part of the company’s multi-pronged strategy to make datacentres more sustainable and efficient to build, operate and maintain. The liquid cooling project is similar to Microsoft’s Project Natick, which is exploring the potential of underwater datacenters that are quick to deploy and can operate for years on the seabed sealed inside submarine-like tubes without any onsite maintenance by people. Instead of an engineered fluid, the underwater datacentres is filled with dry nitrogen air. The servers are cooled with…
Rectron, one of South Africa’s leading distributors of IT products, continues to strengthen its enterprise offering with the addition of Newland ID, a manufacturer of barcode scanners, to its portfolio. As part of the agreement, Rectron will be distributing the full Newland ID range, comprising (wireless) handheld scanners, stationary scanners, mobile computers, tablets, micro kiosks, and OEM scan engines, as well as offering pre-sales support and first-line technical support. This includes managing all repairs and RMA-related incidents in house and with third parties where necessary. “Through Rectron, the South African market will now have full access to the Newland ID…
As healthcare organisations scrambled to cope with huge surges in patient numbers in the wake of the pandemic, the past year has seen a major step-change in the adoption of technology and digital services. But on World Health Day, any progress they have made in their digital transformation risks being washed away by the deluge of resulting data. According to research by Aruba, a HPE company, as of last year, the healthcare sector was among the furthest ahead in terms of its adoption of advanced technologies and the sense of urgency it felt around this. Around three-quarters of healthcare IT leaders had started to implement trials or applications…
Vodacom Group and Vodafone Foundation will donate R74 million to support the vaccine roll-out to vulnerable and hard to reach communities across its markets in Africa. The contribution will buy cold-chain technology and provide logistics support to help to ensure the safe delivery of COVID-19 vaccines that need to be stored at extremely cold temperatures. Separately the organisations will donate €0.8 million (R13 million) to Lesotho to purchase vaccines. The Vodacom Group and Vodafone Foundations have already contributed €10 million (R176 million) in cash and in-kind donations in response to the pandemic. “Targeted donations from Vodafone Foundation and Vodacom Group…
General Motors (GM) is building a Silverado electric pickup truck to offer customers an estimated range of more than 643 kilometres on a full charge. The company said in a statement it plans to deliver more than 1 million electric vehicles globally by 2025. The Chevrolet Silverado electric full-size pickup is designed from the ground up to be an EV, harnessing the best of the Ultium Platform and Silverado’s proven capability. It will be built at the company’s Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. “The vehicles coming from Factory ZERO will change the world, and how the…
South Africa’s largest landlord Growthpoint Properties has opened its first specialised surgical hospital. The hospital is known as Cintocare Private Surgical Hospital. Cintocare Hospital in the green Menlyn Main precinct is a tailor-made, high-performance clinical centre of excellence focused exclusively on head, neck, spinal and vascular surgery. Construction of the R470 million specialist surgical hospital began in July 2018 and, despite the COVID-19 lockdown, was completed on time at the end of 2020. The hospital was built by Growthpoint Healthcare, which invests exclusively in and manages healthcare property assets in South Africa, including hospitals, clinics, biotechnology facilities and laboratories. Growthpoint holds…