by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | news
Avaya and Microsoft have expanded their global partnership by pairing the Avaya OneCloud portfolio with Microsoft Azure. Building on the success of Avaya OneCloud Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) delivered on Azure, Avaya is now expanding its partnership to include...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | news
InfoFlow has partnered with SecuPi to bring SecuPi’s data security platform to South Africa and neighbouring countries. InfoFlow is now a certified SecuPi reseller offering services and support in-country for South Africa and the rest of Africa. Veemal Kalanjee, MD of...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | news
Inayeth Govender has been appointed general manager for demand generation at cloud and hybrid cloud enablement vendor Tarsus On Demand. He joined Tarsus On Demand as a campaign manager. In 2020, he was promoted to head of market development, and now takes on a...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Events/Report-backs
IDC held its CIO Summit and IDC Directions conferences in Johannesburg. Kathy Gibson reported from both events SA tech industry looks forward to continued growth South Africa’s economic growth is still low, while unemployment has hit historic highs, driving...
by Kathy Gibson | May 10, 2022 | news
First Distribution, the leading pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Cloud, Surveillance, and IoT Solutions, has become Master Distributor for Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions. First Distribution...
by Kathy Gibson | May 9, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
It seems that every time we get a new round of loadshedding, South Africans are caught by surprise, and there’s a sudden run on inverters, batteries and generators. But as we start to realise that the power supply situation is not going to revert to normal any time...
by Kathy Gibson | May 9, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
As the South African economy is slowly and cautiously emerging from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations are starting to look to the future and what emerging trends hold for their business. By George Senzere, solutions architect: secure power at...
by Kathy Gibson | May 9, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Commerce in the digital age is more than transactions, products and catalogues. Selling online means telling stories, evoking emotion and establishing trust. No one owes you their business, you have to earn it with every interaction. By Nick Durrant, CEO of Bluegrass...
by Kathy Gibson | May 9, 2022 | Thought Leadership
In the business world, the term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is gradually gaining traction. What began with steam and water power has evolved into advanced computerisation and technology that is ready to disrupt virtually every industry at breakneck...
by Kathy Gibson | May 9, 2022 | Featured Story, Features
Research by International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that 49% of CIOs across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (MEA) believe that the cloud has the potential to play a significant role in driving innovation, creating new digital products, transforming...