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Z-One and the future of application development

Nov 18, 2021

What happens when you combine the worlds of art and application development? Turns out, you get a whole new platform for visualising, automating and building modern new applications. Barry Buck is the technical director of SpacePencil, but he’s also an artist and a...

Rapid cloud migration makes multi-cloud a reality

Nov 18, 2021

The days of talking about cloud computing are over: in 2021, the world has seen a concerted move to public cloud as companies look to conserve their cash. Abdul Moosa, chief technology officer of CoCre8 Technology Solutions, explains that the last 18 months have...

Cloud levels the playing field for partners and customers

Nov 18, 2021

Cloud computing has finally come of age, with the unique circumstances of the last two years accelerating its adoption across the world. In South Africa, and across Africa, a surge in public cloud availability has been welcomed by end-users and partners alike as new...

Partnering with the leading hyperscaler cloud platforms

Nov 18, 2021

First Distribution gives resellers the opportunity to work with the world’s biggest public cloud providers, partnering with IBM, Oracle, AWS and Microsoft. These hyperscalers can be provisioned on to partners’s webstores and accessed by their customers, says Chris...

Cloud Catalyst empowers partners

Nov 18, 2021

To help reseller partners transform their business, First Distribution has developed the Cloud Catalyst programme. “A lot of partners want to get into the cloud or managed services game but don’t quite know how to do it,” explains Chris Richardson, General Manager:...

Tarsus adds value to SMB resellers with HPE installation and startup

Nov 16, 2021

Small and medium business (SMB) resellers have historically been excluded from offering their customers enterprise-level solutions because they lack the necessary skills and certifications. Now Tarsus Distribution is stepping into the gap to help SMB partners compete...

What are the technologies shaping the future of IT infrastructure?

Nov 4, 2021

IT is rapidly changing. For the last decade, every company, now in the business of technology, has been experiencing growing shifts towards automation, decentralised technology budgets, adoption of cloud-based services and even the adoption of AI. By Ronald Ravel,...

State of the nation in the IT channel

Nov 4, 2021

Over the past 18 months, the IT channel has arguably faced one of its most difficult periods ever as the Covid-19 pandemic ushered in global restrictions which not only led to curbed business conditions, but other nightmare scenarios such as massive component...

Cyberthreats continue to break records

Nov 4, 2021

We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons. “We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth generation of cyber threats (Gen V),“...

Rapidly-evolving threat landscape requires constant vigilance

Nov 4, 2021

Even prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations and consumers were under constant threat from cyberattacks. By Bethwel Opil However, the environment has shifted dramatically over the past 16-months due to an increasingly distributed workforce....

Huawei Continuously Optimises End-to-end Assurance System to Secure Cyber Security

Nov 4, 2021

By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa – Huawei is committed to developing secure and trustworthy digital products and services and has continuously optimised its end-to-end assurance system, making sure that each...

Embrace challenges for future growth

Nov 4, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic and the July riots and looting have resulted in stock shortages and logistical issues which have been a massive frustration for the channel in South Africa. By Dorio Bowes, commercial director of Westcon Southern Africa For instance, lockdown...

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