Entries by roeland

The Cloud Computing World Forum Africa took place this week (8 May 2012) in Sandton , Johannesburg and it had an amazing turnout and judging by the turnout it is quite clear that there is a lot of interest in cloud computing among SMEs and Enterprises in South Africa.

 
The expo was quite small and only had stands from the sponsors of the event, however, I was quite surprised that I never saw some of the big names (OpenStack, VMWare, Ubuntu, Rackspace, Amazon) that are innovating and pioneering cloud technology. Never the less it was encouraging to see how companies such ...

 

Real Time Innovations (RTI), a developer of service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware for the aerospace and defense industries, is branching out into health care with its new Connext software suite.
 
Connext provides a DataBus to link information within applications across medical devices and IT systems. The software incorporates peer-to-peer messages to connect data across enterprises without message brokers or daemon processes, according to RTI.
 

"Doctors and nurses in a hospital who have an Apple iPad can use Connext to access patients' permanent electronic health records..."

 
Doctors and nurses in a hospital who have an Apple iPad can use Connext to access ...

In what is seen as a major overhaul to the cross-platform application and user interface framework, Qt 5 Alpha has been released in advance of the full-blown iteration, which is expected later this year.

Under its Nokia parent, Qt appears to have transitioned to a state where it accommodates for (and promotes the adoption of) so-called "fluid touch based experiences" common to contemporary devices. Used extensively across the smartphone (and desktop) landscape, Qt also enjoys considerable deployment within embedded applications seen in areas such as medicine and healthcare.
 
The developmental direction of Qt 5 suggests that there has been a ...

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the world leader in delivering fast, scalable communications software that addresses the challenges of building and integrating real-time operational systems, today announced it has successfully applied RTI Connext DataBus™ to a number of research projects targeting future driver assistance and integrated safety applications at Volkswagen Group Research.

 
By adopting a data-centric "system-of-systems" approach, the Integrated Driver Assistance and Integrated Safety Department within Volkswagen Group Research could thereby reduce its system integration efforts, thus allowing researchers to focus resources instead on new functionality and capability innovation.
 

"Think about the data, not how to communicate - "

 
"Think about the data ...

 

Two engineers from Zitera, Alex Lucouw and Roeland van Nieuwkerk, recently entered a mobile application development evening school program that was hosted by the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) and Nokia South Africa. All applicants were tasked to come up with an idea for the next KILLER app and were then guided through the typical development cycle of a mobile application. Nokia provided C7 phones which the applicants used to test their apps on. Using the new Nokia QtQuick framework Alex and Roeland produced two impressive apps in a short space of time.

Alex took the prize for most ...


New Offices

We are happy (and relieved) to announce that we have finally moved into our new offices. It is not far from our old offices, probably about 1 KM, and is a major upgrade for Zitera. Below is a quick snap of the office building, branding is still on it's way.

Customers and visitors have more parking right in front of the building and the building is right across the entrance of the office park, so you can't miss it!

Here's the new address:

Unit 4, 1st Floor
Cambridge Park
5 Bauhinia Street (Off Oak Street)
Highveld Techno ...

Zitera Products Web Store

We would like to give all our clients an update with the progress on the Zitera Products Web Store.

As mentioned in a previous post we are currently working on an on-line product catalouge of all the products that Zitera has to offer. It is currently still in development but will be launching with in the next couple of weeks, so watch this space!

Twitter

Zitera has also recently joined twitter so please follow us for posted updates.

Thanks for all the patience!


Tracking the World's Biggest Transformer

In February this year Zitera in partnership with ICM Group set out to track and monitor the transporting of the world's biggest transformer from Germany to South Africa. This transformer was destined for a new power station that is currently being constructed in the Limpopo province in South Africa, thus the transformer had a significant distance to cover.


The concept of asset tracking is well known to the modern world of logistics and asset management, and with countless products in the market you can put together an asset management system fairly cheaply. However, in this case, the requirements was ...


New Web Site

Update 28 Feb 2011

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Welcome to our brand new web site!

Zitera's new web site has been long in the making but, finally, it is here. We have big plans for the web site and this is only the first step. So let's review what has been done and what is coming.

What's Been Done

1. We have a complete new look & feel, this goes with our brand new corporate identity!

2. We have the general marketing side of the ...