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...
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...
