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Tech made easy for SMEs

Sep 9, 2019

Small business owners have more than enough to worry about than managing their IT systems. However, to be competitive in today’s high tech business environment it is crucial that they choose the right IT solutions. Justin Trent, CEO of Cloudbox, says the company is...

Lenovo DCG has the winning formula

Sep 9, 2019

The Lenovo Data Centre Group (DCG) has taken its product line from also-ran to pack leader in just four years. With an impressive 141 top-performing benchmarks as of June 2019 (see following article), Lenovo DCG is justifiably proud of the strides it has made. Jim...

End founders conflict before it starts

Sep 2, 2019

Around 65% of high-potential start-ups fail due to co-founder conflict. However, these conflicts can easily be prevented if entrepreneurs arm themselves with a few simple tools. “Early stage founders are often unaware of what topics, interactions or decisions could...

Digital transformation for technology resellers

Sep 2, 2019

With end-user IT spend rapidly shifting from on-premise technology towards software-as-a-service (SaaS) and the cloud, the channel is coming under growing pressure to embrace digital transformation. Channel partners that embrace this imperative today will be able to...

SME development key to channel’s success

Sep 2, 2019

South Africa and, indeed, Africa are built on small medium enterprises (SMEs) and, more than ever before, countries in the region are relying on these entities to drive employment, up GDP ratios and alleviate poverty. President Cyril Ramaphosa has on numerous...

SMEs advance inclusive growth and development in Africa

Sep 2, 2019

South Africa, and the continent as a whole, needs small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to thrive as these entities are key to advancing inclusive growth and development in Africa. “The potential for the growth of SMEs in South Africa is enormous meaning the benefits of...

Cut costs by going digital

Sep 2, 2019

More than 70% of SMEs struggle to survive the first two years of operation with poor cashflow management and insufficient funding being cited as two of the main reasons for failure. But there is no smarter way to cut costs than by going digital, says Thomas Vollrath,...

IBM goes all-in with Red Hat, cloud

Sep 2, 2019

IBM has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimised it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform,...

Small businesses are the most attractive to cybercriminals

Aug 20, 2019

More than half (54%) of all cyber-attacks result in financial damages, not to mention lost revenue, customers, reputation damage and business downtime. This is according to the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark study, and according to Westcon-Comstor, the...

Small businesses don’t collaborate effectively when technology fails them

Aug 20, 2019

Working beyond physical boundaries is the promise of collaboration tools, but research shows that too few workers know where to go online to engage with partners or peers. Unveiling a host of Cisco collaboration tools for small businesses, Westcon-Comstor is providing...

Move over traditional storage: HPE’s Primera opens up the multi-cloud

Aug 19, 2019

If traditional storage was a bicycle, Hybrid cloud storage is a fighter jet – and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s new generation of enterprise storage allows an IT department to focus on innovation while storage manages itself, predicts and prevents disruptions,...

Cyber-threats all too real for SA businesses

Aug 11, 2019

The promise of enhanced business performance in practically every area – from cost-cutting to employee productivity and customer service – has business owners around the world embarking on the journey of digital transformation in bigger and bigger numbers every year....

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