Challenges and opportunities ahead for the channel

The IT channel has weathered many storms over the last couple of years, and many reseller partners welcomed 2022 as the year when life could return to some semblance of normal. Instead, they have been faced with a host of new and more complex challenges. Customers...

Cyber security still the dominant risk

The cybersecurity landscape has matured: attack vectors have evolved and adapted to changing security protocols and parameters with ransomware and online fraud becoming a menace in the region. However, this maturity also extends to the organisation as the strategies...
Microsoft SA announces Partner Awards winners

Microsoft SA announces Partner Awards winners

Microsoft South Africa hosted its annual Partner Awards this week, recognising a partner ecosystem that it says, has continued to push beyond all limits to enable success for customers in South Africa, and beyond. The event, which was hosted in person for the first...

Westcon-Comstor celebrates partners in Botswana

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa has announced the winners of its Imagine Botswana 2022 partner awards. The awards were given to those partners who have excelled in revenue, new business, innovation, and growth over the last year and were awarded at a gala dinner...

JumpCloud partners with Digicloud Africa

Digicloud Africa, a Google Cloud reseller enablement partner in Africa, and Open Directory Platform provider JumpCloud have partnered to drive JumpCloud’s growth across Africa. In Africa, much like in the rest of the world, businesses are becoming more complex,...

Nutanix unveils partner program updates, incentives

Nutanix has evolved its Elevate global partner program focus to provide a better experience for the entire partner ecosystem and customers throughout the customer lifecycle, while staying true to the program’s unified framework. This includes an expanded benefits...

Neil Rex to sell Drive Control

Thirty four years after he founded the most successful independent distributor in South Africa, the doyen of local distribution – Neil Rex, MD of Drive Control – is in the final stages of selling his company to a consortium of private equity investors for...