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Don’t let unstructured data leave your business in the dark

May 22, 2020

Data is being generated at an unprecedented pace, offering new opportunities for analysis and insight – but only if it can be managed effectively. While we may be generating more data than ever, we also understand less of it than ever. By Johan Scheepers, country head...

A next-generation data centre for a next-generation world

May 22, 2020

The global data centre services market is expected to register a compound annual growth rate of 13.69% during the 2019 to 2024 period reflecting their importance in a digitally-driven business environment. As part of this, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) will...

Scaling the digital enterprise

May 11, 2020

The global demand for scalability hasn’t ebbed, if anything it’s being pushed harder by flagging economic conditions, complex markets, and demanding customers. It is important to have agile, scalable and secure enterprises to ensure consistent growth and development...

Still no clarity on global IT spending trends

May 11, 2020

IT spending expectations remain uneven, with significant differences across countries, industries, and companies, according to the latest update to the IDC Covid-19 Tech Index. Overall sentiment in the US has dropped in the past two weeks, as businesses adjust to...

Effective supply chain finance key to future competitiveness

May 11, 2020

The business disruptions in South Africa brought about by Covid-19 and the national lockdown response have resulted in many companies finding that their working capital is now tied up in stock that they are unable to sell. By Mike Brandon, head: customised trade...

How Covid-19 exposed weakness in the supply chain

May 11, 2020

Could the global coronavirus pandemic be the black swan event that forces companies, and entire industry sectors, to rethink and transform their supply chain models? By Heinrich de Leeuw, MD of Seidor South Africa Although the full impact of Covid-19 on supply chains...

The workplace and the new normal

May 11, 2020

The IT industry has been advocating the concept of remote working for years but, to a large extent, business has been lukewarm to the concept. Now, the Covid-19 lockdown has thrust the issue into the spotlight and organisations have been forced to implement remote...

How to get value from remote working

May 11, 2020

Remote working was sprung on many companies as the Covid-19 lockdown came into effect, but it is probably here to stay as organisations around the world realise its benefits. The obvious one of workers being able to discharge their duties without battling traffic to...

DNA: the new frontier for data backup?

May 11, 2020

As more of our work and personal lives have become digital, we’ve seen a staggering growth in the amount of data we’re generating, storing and accessing. By Michael Cade, senior global technologist at Veeam According to various studies, Google processes 3,5-billion...

Channel primed for the ‘new normal’

May 4, 2020

With South Africa progressing from Level 5 of the nationwide lockdown to Level 4 on 1 May – which was a public holiday – today (4 May) will officially see many more ICT companies resume operations, albeit still with some restrictions. The IT channel is one of...

AI could turn the tide on cybercrime

May 2, 2020

The cyber threat landscape in South Africa continues to intensify. But together the cloud and AI can provide the breakthrough security professionals across the country need, writes Colin Erasmus, modern workplace business group lead at Microsoft. Made famous by...

Clock ticking if you haven’t reinvented for SaaS

May 2, 2020

South African ICT resellers and systems integrators have a shrinking window of opportunity to position themselves in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) world if they wish to remain relevant in a rapidly-changing market. This is especially true in the new world of work...

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