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Cybercrime goes mainstream

Dec 6, 2019

Cybercrime has entered the mainstream of our culture to an unprecedented extent and it is here to stay, with the scale of threats today becoming more and more difficult to quantify. Against this background, organisations need to know as much as possible about the...

Azure once again positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Dec 3, 2019

Azure Storage has retained its position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage in 2019. For the third year in a row, Gartner has placed Microsoft into the coveted Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage, demonstrating the solution’s lasting value. The...

Science, indigenous knowledge and AI weave environmental magic

Nov 29, 2019

It’s dawn in Kakadu’s wetlands; the night’s inky silence gives way to bird song as the first rays reveal the emerald magic of the landscape. The dual World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory is one of the most beautiful places on...

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...