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It’s business as usual at KDZA … except where it isn’t

Jul 11, 2018

At Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa (KDZA), it’s business as usual on steroids. Ex-GM, Wayne Holborn, left in March 2018 and new GM, Werner Engelbrecht, took over the day-to-day running of the business. “Business as usual” in this sense means that KDZA is still...

Deep Throat: Altron transformation continues apace

Jul 11, 2018

Interesting to watch the transformation of Altron under the leadership of former Microsoft SA and MTN SA supremo Mteto Nyati. Having disposed of some of the company’s more traditional business entities such as Powertech Transformers, CBI Telecom Cables and Altech UEC,...

Digitalisation: the road ahead for the channel

Jul 11, 2018

Companies across the board are looking to digitalisation as the new way of doing business. Digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are being touted as the way forward for successful companies. While the IT industry is selling the concepts and tools...

Why tech companies are changing their workspaces

Jun 26, 2018

Technology businesses are some of the most successful of our age. They have created products and services that shape our lives and benefitted from the resulting business growth. By Martijn Roordink, co-founder and chief executive of Spaces Technology organisations...

Smart security for the SME

Jun 26, 2018

Securing the end point with enterprise-ready technology was traditionally outside the budget of the SME, but that’s in the past. By Ralph Berndt, director: sales at Syrex. The enterprise has traditionally been the first served with a large variety of security services...

Kolok improves efficiencies with Citrix

Jun 26, 2018

Kolok, a division of the Bidvest Group and one of South Africa’s largest IT distributors, has deployed Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN to improve its customer service, speed of response and business efficiencies. With an operation as complex as Kolok’s, a reliable and secure...

GDPR a huge opportunity for the channel

Jun 26, 2018

The increasing regulatory framework presents an opportunity for VARs and channel partners to grow their sales pipelines and build new levels of engagement with customers. Commvault has announced continued business expansion by its ecosystem of channel partners...

Different options for financing your business

Jun 26, 2018

With several available options to finance your business, figuring out which is best for you can be both daunting and confusing. Entrepreneurs typically hate asking for finance, which often means that they’ll pick the “path of least resistance” rather...

SSD gains in popularity, grows shipments

Jun 11, 2018

The market for solid state drives (SSD) expected to gain traction over the coming years. This is due mainly to the benefits that SSD has over hard drives (HDD) such as high reliability and performance efficiency which are seeing the take-up of SSD in the data centre...

Warning signs that it is time to replace your SSD

Jun 11, 2018

While solid state drives (SSD) are more stable than hard drives, age can eventually cause them to fail. It is therefore important to know what signs to keep an eye out for, which could signal an impending failure. According to Tony Yu, South African country manager at...

Cloud archiving versus tape

Jun 11, 2018

Data management and specifically data archiving is critical to businesses in their quest to gain better control over their IT environments. There are two distinct ways to do this: tape archiving or cloud archiving, and the latter is gaining more prominence says...

When to employ SSD or HDD …

Jun 11, 2018

As the world becomes increasingly connected, an increase in data consumption and storage requirements is inevitable. Changes in data consumption patterns have also led to the evolution of storage technology. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), there...

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