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What is Azure Storage?

Nov 28, 2019

Azure Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios. It offers a massively scalable object store for data objects, a file system service for the cloud, a messaging store for reliable messaging, and a NoSQL store. Azure Storage...

SA tech entrepreneurship: what’s working and what isn’t

Nov 22, 2019

Despite the ongoing hype around entrepreneurship and trendy startup tech businesses in South Africa, there are prevailing myths that muddy the thinking around the existing challenges and opportunities. By Dominique Collett, a senior investment executive at Rand...

Unused accounts pose a real threat

Nov 22, 2019

It’s very likely that you’ve been using the internet for many years now and already forgotten how many different accounts you’ve created. However, old accounts pose a real threat as there’s a big chance they store a lot of sensitive data. If one of your old accounts...

Innovation needed in the counterfeiting war

Nov 22, 2019

When it comes to fraud, the impact of the production and sale of counterfeit goods is just as detrimental to the economy as cyber crime and identity theft. This issue came under the spotlight in 2019 when there was an outright war that was waged by the South African...

Medium businesses: don’t stagnate

Nov 22, 2019

Medium-size businesses do not have to stand back and watch the transformation of large organisations. The floodgates of technology have opened for everyone. Medium businesses, in particular, can take huge advantage of fantastic breakthroughs available at very...

The story behind Azure security

Nov 22, 2019

Security has to be baked into any cloud solution. When organisations trust their systems to the cloud, they expect security to be a given. Azure goes a step further: its proactive approach to security, compliance, and privacy is unique, with Microsoft leading the...

Networking and storage at the heart of the network

Nov 22, 2019

The heart of the enterprise has always been the network – and it has become more relevant than ever in today’s world of always-on connectivity. Marcel Fouche, GM for the networking and storage business unit at Networks Unlimited, points out that the move to...

C-suite leaders who value trust in data outperform their peers

Nov 15, 2019

Market leadership is most frequently attained when an organisation establishes a high level of trust in the data from its customers, its own business processes, and across its partner ecosystem. This is one of the findings from IBM’s 20th edition of its...

The channel’s Top Executives

Nov 15, 2019

For the past decade or so, we’ve carried an annual cover story listing those individuals we consider to be the most outstanding and influential executives in the distribution channel. Since inception, the decision on who to feature has always been totally subjective...

Why should you bet on Azure?

Nov 15, 2019

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud computing services to help organisations meet their business challenges. Azure gives companies have the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using their preferred tools and...

Security as a service a new channel opportunity

Nov 15, 2019

Continued growth in the magnitude and volume of the security risks faced by mid-sized enterprises, paired with a critical shortage of information security skills in the South African market, is opening up a range of opportunities for the channel in the managed...

This is why multicloud security is popular

Nov 15, 2019

There’s a lot of traction in the market at the moment for security solutions that serve hybrid cloud and on-premise environments even though so many services come with their own security tools. By Tallen Harmsen, head of cyber security at IndigoCube It’s hardly...

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