by Kathy Gibson | May 20, 2022 | Featured Story, news
By Mark Davison – One of the original founders of the South African IT channel and one of its most respected and revered executives, David Kan, CEO of JSE-listed Mustek, has died. Kan founded Mustek in 1987, a company that has grown to a listed entity comprising...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Thought Leadership
In today’s ever-changing business climate, small business owners must get what they need right when they need it, whether they’re on their computers, tablets, or mobile phones – or in the office, out in the field, or on the road. By Matthew Hall, product...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
Small, medium and microenterprises (SMMEs) make up the majority of businesses across the world. In fact, around 90% of all businesses are small to medium enterprises, providing around 50% of all employment opportunities. By Alan Shannon, executive for client...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
South Africa is blessed with highly talented IT people, and our skills are as good as those you’d find anywhere in the world. While this is great validation, it ironically also represents a massive risk for our local industry. By Paul Morgan, business unit lead for...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Sustainability is the new digital. Becoming sustainable as a business is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. It requires demonstrating a purposeful approach to environmental, social, governance and technology issues, maintaining strong ethical...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Trends and Analysis
While many vendors have always taken a hybrid route to market approach, challenges brought about by the pandemic and economic upheaval has created a more competitive environment resulting in many vendors taking a more direct sales route. By cutting out channel...
by Kathy Gibson | May 13, 2022 | Featured Story, Features
IBM has announced the expansion of its roadmap for achieving large-scale, practical quantum computing. The roadmap details plans for new modular architectures and networking that will allow IBM quantum systems to have larger qubit-counts – up to hundreds of thousands...
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...