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NextGens key to family business success

Nov 29, 2019

Family business NextGens view themselves as agents of change for digital transformation but are looking for greater support and trust from current generation leaders, according to a new report by PwC. PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2019 has found that a majority of...

Azure Backup: Your trusted partner

Nov 29, 2019

Azure Backup is an Azure-based, built-in backup solution for all of an organisation’s resources. It simplifies data protection from ransomware and human error. As a one-click backup solution, Azure Backup is cost-effective and is easier to implement than other cloud...

Late payments drag SMEs down

Nov 29, 2019

New Xero research reveals South Africa’s small to medium businesses (SMEs) are each owed R99 800 in late payments at any given time according to their business decision-makers. Given there are an estimated 2,5-million SMEs in South Africa, this means the national...

Office 365 is a great revenue opportunity for SA tech resellers

Nov 29, 2019

South African resellers that want to drive higher profits from reselling the Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite need to focus on developing a compelling set of value-added solutions and services for their clients. Such potential offerings include...

Education, socio-economic development core to NU, Love Trust partnership

Nov 29, 2019

Networks Unlimited is a Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) contributor – but what it considers important is the fact that it is an active contributor to the future of South Africa through its children. The company partnered with the Love Trust as...

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...