by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured Story, Trends and Analysis
The South African ICT channel faces yet another difficult year in 2018, with distributors, resellers and vendors all likely to find their revenues and margins coming under further pressure as end-customers cut back on their discretionary technology budgets. That’s...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Trends and Analysis
The arrival of hyperscale cloud data centres in South Africa, the commercial maturing of new interactions such as augmented reality, and the rise of the intelligent edge paint a promising picture for 2018. But these are not just local events – globally the next...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Trends and Analysis
There are some big things set to come in 2018. In fact, we are seeing numerous significant developments in the world of enterprise IT. These include the emergence of the container infrastructure ecosystem, a continued move to hybrid cloud and the growth in...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Trends and Analysis
Budgets are tight and businesses need to be innovative when purchasing electronics or trying to find the right tools and technologies to meet their unique requirements. Rather than trying to reduce the budget, they should focus on the importance of spending their...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Trends and Analysis
The smaller channel is set to undertake a bumpy ride over the potholes left behind by the mismanaged South African economy. By Henk Olivier, MD of Ozone Information Technology Solutions In a recent report by Xero entitled The State of Small Business 2017, 67,9% of...
by Kathy Gibson | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured Story, Trends and Analysis
Once again, Channelwise’s Three Wise Men – who between them have more than a century in the IT industry and channel – have put their heads together to come up with who they think are the country’s most influential and top distribution executives for 2017. The...