by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
With the pandemic accelerating cloud and digital adoption among businesses of all sizes, IT value-added resellers (VARs) and consulting firms are pressured to reinvent themselves as cloud-first organisations. This demands that they transition to new commercial models...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Running a business in the current challenging economic environment requires a profound level of skill and is difficult under normal circumstances. Add in the rapid acceleration of digitisation and the complex working environment created by the onset of the pandemic,...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Story, Features
Not only is the gig economy benefiting individuals, but businesses are also embracing this technologically enabled approach to unlock new revenue streams. Some small business owners have successfully used it to secure new clients, while millennials are particularly...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Three-tier networking shows its limitations in a world where more companies are shifting to a cloud-ready environment and embracing software-defined networking (SDN) architecture. Thiani Naicker, BD lead at Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa While not inherently...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
There’s a quip in the IT industry: who is driving digital transformation in your company: the CEO, the CIO or Covid? And, of course, the response is generally Covid. While Covid has precipitated organisations along an accelerated digitalisation path, the very speed...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Earth. As its permafrost ice melts, powerful methane greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere, which speeds up global warming in an increasingly destructive cycle. Professor Katey Walter Anthony is an...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
A business’s need for greater data storage is constantly increasing due to storage-hungry applications and data driven business components. As technology demands continue to evolve, how do you decide what is best for your organisation? Looking at IT professionals...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
The cost of mobile data in South Africa is in welcome decline and anecdotal evidence suggests mobile gaming is experiencing unprecedented growth. That’s according to local gaming leader Ekasi Esports which says the fact that South Africa climbed from 148th to 136th...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
A Kaspersky Safe Kids study has revealed what children were interested in during 2020 – 2021. Over the past year, their interest has grown in the categories of ‘software, audio and video’ and ‘e-commerce’, while ‘Internet communication media’ and ‘computer...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 10, 2021 | Features
The gaming market lags behind in diverse representation, both in the player base and in the games themselves, with women, people of colour, the LGBTQIA+ community and those with disabilities often overlooked. This is among the findings in a report from Intel and...
