by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the entire global business world in March 2020, businesses have been scrambling to reinvent their business models and restructure their supply chains to adapt and survive. By Greg Cress, digital transformation lead at Accenture in...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
Over the past 18 months, the IT channel has arguably faced one of its most difficult periods ever as the Covid-19 pandemic ushered in global restrictions which not only led to curbed business conditions, but other nightmare scenarios such as massive component...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons. “We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth generation of cyber threats (Gen V),“...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
Even prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations and consumers were under constant threat from cyberattacks. By Bethwel Opil However, the environment has shifted dramatically over the past 16-months due to an increasingly distributed workforce....
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa – Huawei is committed to developing secure and trustworthy digital products and services and has continuously optimised its end-to-end assurance system, making sure that each...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Features
The Covid-19 pandemic and the July riots and looting have resulted in stock shortages and logistical issues which have been a massive frustration for the channel in South Africa. By Dorio Bowes, commercial director of Westcon Southern Africa For instance, lockdown...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Product Showcase
Intel has unveiled what it is calling its biggest shifts in Intel architectures in a generation. Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and GM: accelerated computing systems and graphics group, discusses highlights of the announcements. Efficient-core A highly...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Product Showcase
IBM has unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in realtime. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
New electronic devices are in short supply due to a global shortage of semiconductors, affecting particularly the production of new laptops, desktops and tablets. This is the word from Kwirirai Rukowo, GM of Qrent, who comments: “Currently, companies have been waiting...
by Kathy Gibson | Nov 4, 2021 | Thought Leadership
The history of virtualisation is a long one. By Ian Jansen van Rensburg VMware itself started back in 1998, providing server virtualisation services. It was, in rudimentary terms, the capability of taking a software layer and making it take care of the complexity...
