by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Operational technology (OT) is the cyber physical foundation that enables the world’s factories, energy production and transmission facilities, transportation networks, and utilities to function. By Rick Peters, CISO Operational Technology at Fortinet To boost...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
One of the many impacts of COVID-19 is that organisations had to change the way they communicated and engaged with employees and clients. Corlia Boshoff from Bizmod Consulting says that the first quarter of 2021 has shown us that while things may not be as severe as...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
For every company, innovation is tremendously important, but in many cases, innovation is only associated with new products or technical renewals. By Soromfe Uzomah, Head: Strategic Partnerships, Microsoft 4Afrika However, business model innovations can be...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are part of a group of batteries called lithium-ion batteries. Specifying that a battery is a lithium iron, or lithium iron phosphate, battery implies a host of characteristics which are important when choosing a battery type and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – The South African financial market is a paradox in that a majority of people have bank accounts, but 80% of them don’t have access to financial services. Khulekani Mathe, head of financial inclusion at the Banking Association South Africa,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – A massive 1-million 5G subscriptions are going to be added every day this year, taking the total to 580-million users by the end of 2021. Todd Ashton, vice-president and head of Ericsson South and East Africa, points out that 5G growth is...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs
Kathy Gibson reports – Vodacom is calling on merchants and developers to join its VodaPay platform. Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom, describes the VodaPay platform as a super-app offering a range of shopping and payment services made possible by the agreement signed...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Features
Leading ICT distributor Pinnacle is excited to introduce the launch of their new Cybersecurity division – Cybersecurity Solutions. The launch of Pinnacle’s cybersecurity offering comes as digital transformation for many organisations is still very much on-going,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Features
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 2,1% year over year to $7,8-billion during the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20). Total...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Features
The amount of data created and replicated experienced unusually high growth in 2020 due to the dramatic increase in the number of people working, learning, and entertaining themselves from home. This is according to the annual DataSphere and StorageSphere forecasts...
