Pinnacle wins Channelwise Distributor of the Year 2024

Pinnacle has reclaimed the coveted Channelwise Distributor of the Year title, pipping Axiz, Mustek, Tarsus and Rectron to the post. The prestigious awards are the culmination of the 12th annual Channelwise Distributor of the Year survey. This year, 2 828 resellers...

How African data centre trends stack up

By Kathy Gibson - Technology trends over the last couple of years have fundamentally changed the way data centres are deployed and used. Cloud computing has become an entrenched part of business computing, while edge deployments are driving new architectures and use...

African CEOs see GenAI as key challenge, opportunity

Kathy Gibson reports – Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is seen as one of the top opportunities and risks for businesses in Africa. This is one of the headline findings of the inaugural KPMG Africa CEO Outlook, which finds that GenAI is seen as a useful tool...

The cost of a data breach reaches new highs

The global average cost of a data breach reached $4,88-million in 2024, as breaches grow more disruptive and further expand demands on cyber teams, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. Breach costs increased 10% from the prior year, the largest yearly jump...

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Nutanix launches Multicloud Experts Community

Nutanix has announced the launch of its Multicloud Experts community (MC Experts) in EMEA, creating a platform for cloud experts to pool knowledge and resources while being able to lean on peers and specialists to empower customers to thrive in an increasingly complex multicloud world.

Trends and Analysis

Mustek builds security practice with Cyberantix acquisition

By Kathy Gibson – Cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today: studies indicate that the number of attacks is growing on an almost daily basis, while the cost of a breach is scaling new heights.

Product Showcase

Salesforce launches Einstein SDR, Sales Coach agents

Salesforce has introduced two new fully autonomous AI sales agents: Einstein Sales Development Rep (SDR) Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent, both built on Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Agentforce Platform.

Events/Report-backs

Vertiv: Driving innovation tour

Data Centres are taking on a new prominence as the move to artificial intelligence drives up the requirements for compute and storage. This means CIOs are having to find new and innovative ways to power and cool computers that are become denser with every new chip generation.

Channelwise E-Books

AI: the business case, what’s new in AI and automation and Pinnacle seizes opportunities. We report back from Gitex Africa.

Keeping the lights on in 2024

Keeping the lights on in 2024

Compliance key in data modernisation, constant reinvention keeping Nokia relevant, Open source driving the convergence of cloud and AI, and all the action from the Pinnacle Tech Tour.