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Global economic scenarios that could impact SA companies

Feb 9, 2020

PwC presents five themes we assess will likely prevail in the global economy in 2020, as well as the implications for South African companies. Three out of four South African CEOs surveyed in the PwC 23rd Annual Global CEO Survey are extremely concerned about local...

#Budget2020: will small businesses be on the agenda this time?

Feb 3, 2020

We’re racing towards the end of the current tax year and the start of the next, with the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA – 13 February) and the Finance Minister’s Budget Speech for 2020/1 (26 February) on the horizon. By Pieter Bensch, executive...

4IR: ICT and energy sectors equally crucial

Feb 3, 2020

Energy has played an enabling role in each of the past industrial revolutions, and the fourth is no different. By Vino Govender But instead of powering factory machinery and steam engines, it is powering everything from communication backbone to access networks, data...

SA looks to play cloud catch-up

Feb 3, 2020

As cloud enters its teen years in 2019, South Africa remains a late adopter of what is globally an established technology. Jason Penton, co-founder of cloud platform builder Jini Guru, says that in the 13 years that cloud has been around, the technology landscape has...

The rise of social engineering in cyber threats

Feb 3, 2020

Impersonation attacks are on this rise – accounting for 26% of total detections. These attacks now include voice phishing or “vishing,” an advanced attack observed in this quarter, where threat actors use social engineering to gain access to personal and financial...

The future of payments will be based on pragmatism

Jan 24, 2020

As we enter the next decade, local and African merchants should support payment methods that suit their customers, rather than following global trends just for the sake of it. Peter Harvey, MD of payment service provider, DPO SA, looks at five trends we can expect...

Huge savings with refurbished electronics

Jan 24, 2020

Buying refurbished electronics provides a far better price versus value specification when compared to buying new devices. However, when purchasing these products, Xperien warns that one must ensure that they are Certified Refurbished Systems (CRS). To make a smart...

The double-edged digital transformation sword

Jan 24, 2020

Demand up, demand down. Is digital transformation killing the channel? Digital transformation. Over the past few years, those two words have been hyped to the point of dizziness, sticking like glue to boardroom conversations and igniting tangential shifts in...

Multi-cloud’s new multiculturism

Jan 24, 2020

Multi-cloud has moved from tentative experiment to a fundamental component of IT strategies. From developers to security teams, workloads are migrating to the cloud in one way or another, whether you know it or not. Simon McCullough, senior channel account manager at...

Improve network security with SD-WAN

Jan 24, 2020

Enterprises that are widely dispersed, geographically speaking, are rapidly moving to embrace software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). This is because SD-WANs dramatically lower costs, reduce complexity and make branch communications more secure, while also, in...

Get ready for a bumpy economic ride through 2020

Jan 24, 2020

By Kathy Gibson – The only thing that is certain about South Africa’s economic outlook is uncertainty, and that we are in for a bumpy ride in 2020. Indeed, around the world CEOs are exhibiting a record level of pessimism about what lies ahead for the global economy –...

How the privacy debate could pan out in 2020

Jan 17, 2020

Data privacy and protection are likely to be high on the agenda for 2020 in the wake of Facebook–Cambridge Analytica and other data scandals. These controversies have prompted regulators and consumers alike to question how much personal data big tech companies gather,...

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